Obama’s joke was solid, Tyler Cowen is wrong about ‘Who’s on First?’, and comedy doesn’t need to hold up to logic.

While DOJ monitors have observed elections for civil rights violations since 1965, recent remarks from DOJ leadership about ...

After backing Trump in three elections, Macomb County is a spot where Mike Rogers needs to generate Republican enthusiasm.

It’s beginning to feel spooky in Washington, D.C., and not just because of Halloween. The 2026 midterms are almost here, and Dispatch co-founders Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg are ready to separate ...

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Abdul El-Sayed and Vivek Ramaswamy have a lot in common. Both were born less than a year apart and raised in the Rust Belt by ...

I cannot accept the excessive centralization, the current disciplinary state, as they call it now, of liberty.” The group was ...

They never knew the America that made plausible what Father John Courtney Murray called “the great act of trust”—that is, ...

Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published at O. Alan Noble’s You Are Not Your Own Substack and is reprinted with ...

Trump says dumber and more asinine things pretty much hourly. But when he prattles on about “Dumbocrats” and has to explain ...

As the clip of Obama’s joke circulated, the MAGA commentariat began to hum with populist indignation. “Classic Obama snobbery ...