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Sonia Sotomayor Must Retire
Democrats are distressed about the conservative court, but not ruthless enough to tell the aging justice to step down in time to avoid shifting the…
 • Josh Barro
Democrats Need Their Own DEI Purge
The woke brigades in the Democratic Party aren't merely annoying. They have undermined Democrats' appeal to the same minority communities they are…
 • Josh Barro
Trump Didn't Deserve to Win, But We Deserved to Lose
Some Democrats are mystified by how an increasingly diverse coalition of voters could choose Trump over four more years of us. I'm not.
 • Josh Barro
Universities Are Not on the Level
Academics should think more about what their industry has done to lose the trust of Americans
 • Josh Barro
The First Step to Winning Back the Senate: Don't Nominate Anyone Who Said 'God Is Non-Binary' On Video
Certainly not in Texas.
 • Josh Barro
Section Guy Runs For President
Harvard graduate Vivek Ramaswamy is a grimly recognizable figure to anyone else who went there, even if we never knew him personally
 • Josh Barro
The Kennedys Were Always Bad
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., far from being a black sheep, fits well within his family's long tradition of sucking.
 • Josh Barro
Gavin Newsom Is Gross and Embarrassing and Will Never Be President
So he should stop making an embarrassing national spectacle of himself.
 • Josh Barro
Bluesky Isn't a Bubble. It's a Containment Dome.
Pray that Bluesky doesn't die entirely — we need it so the worst liberal posts are kept in a place where the broader public won't ever see them.
 • Josh Barro
Your Dislike of Charlie Kirk Is Not Interesting Right Now
Or: how liberal monomania about ideology gets in the way of context, discretion and broadly behaving like a normal person.
 • Josh Barro
It Is Not Chuck Schumer's Job to Satisfy Your Emotional Needs
Forcing a shutdown would be a show of 'fighting,' but it would not advance Democratic policy interests — in fact, it would hurt them, and the public as…
 • Josh Barro
Identity Politics Meets College Politics With Predictably Stupid, Immoral Results
An unimportant story from Berkeley helps us understand an important one unfolding at universities around the country
 • Josh Barro
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