Ryan Girdusky
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New York, NY, United States
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The Lincoln Project's Predator
The longtime McCain aide and Kasich strategist has been accused of grooming young men by multiple named accusers → Read More
What TV Can Teach Us About the White Working Class
From Archie Bunker to Shameless, narrative television has often portrayed them sympathetically. But will it still post-Trump? → Read More
The Missing White Vote in Wisconsin Lost Trump the State
The president's operation left millions of potential votes on the table → Read More
What Took Trump So Long?
His decision to deploy troops to the streets is welcome but late. Turns out his advisors urged him to stand down. → Read More
If Trump Responded to the Coronavirus Like FDR
It's not cynical to seize the moment. → Read More
The Coronavirus Could Create a New Populist Backlash
The public has a new appetite for challenging China and freezing immigration. Now Washington must respond. → Read More
Joe Biden has a big problem with the youth vote
The youth vote is a pillar of the modern Democratic Party coalition. It was essential for former President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 victories, and to Hillary Clinton earning a plurality of the popular vote. While voters under the age of 35 seem to be a lock for Democrats, they are less than enthusiastic about supporting Joe Biden, and it could become a serious problem in the fall. → Read More
Stephen Miller's White House Fiefdom
He's an immigration hardliner who also serves as a roadblock against like-minded people working with Trump. What gives? → Read More
The Not-So-New Populism
From Denmark to South America, the Right's nationalist turn began long before Brexit and Trump. → Read More
How Trump is changing the Democrats
Much has been written on how the Republican Party has changed its views in the Trump era. But the Democratic Party has also gone through an evolution. → Read More
Congress failed to build the wall, now Trump needs to do it without them
President Trump has tried to work with Democrats in Congress to solve the partial government shutdown and build a border wall, but they are not willing to budge. Now that Trump made a more-than-generous compromise proposal and Democrats still didn't work with him, it's time to use executive action to get the wall built himself. → Read More
Democrats didn't need a response to Trump's immigration address because the media did it for them
Even before President Trump uttered the first syllable of his Oval Office address, the media was in full attack mode berating the public that whatever Trump said would be an utter lie. Not confident that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., would adequately rebuff Trump, left-wing members of the media created a narrative that Trump was lying and… → Read More
2020 Democrats are making the same immigration mistake as Hillary Clinton
Leading contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination (including Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris) are making the same mistake on immigration that Hillary Clinton made in 2016. By ignoring the death of police officer Ronil Singh… → Read More
Trump's base would love to have Jim Webb as Defense secretary
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' resignation has many in the establishment wing of the GOP worried, but Trump’s base is celebrating the possibility that he could pick a successor more aligned to his non-interventionist foreign policy. There’s no man more qualified or better suited for that job than former Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. → Read More
Rep. Thomas Massie fights back against sneaky attempt to suspend Congress' war powers
Only a few House members remained in the chamber late Wednesday night, preparing to vote on dozens of bills that would pass by voice vote. After six hours on the floor, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., stood up and demanded that a quorum is in effect. → Read More
Jimmy Duncan, the hero America ignored
Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. → Read More
Here's how Trump can finally make progress on immigration (and it's not a government shutdown)
President Trump needs to do a prime time Oval Office address about immigration, the current crisis on the border, and why the country needs bold action from Congress and the executive branch. → Read More
Why did Mike Pompeo hire 'Never Trumper' Mary Kissel as a top adviser?
News broke on Tuesday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had hired long-time "Never Trumper" and former Wall Street Journal editorial writer Mary Kissel as senior adviser for policy and strategic messaging. That’s right, a "Never Trumper" who vehemently opposed the policies Trump campaigned on is now advising Trump's secretary of state on policy. → Read More
Democratic fundraiser says America is racist and sexist, 'F--k the bible voters'
Democrats are hoping to make gains in Republican-leaning congressional districts by running moderates with biographies that appeal to center-right voters including veterans, gun owners, and football players, and in doing so have distanced themselves from the far-left of the Democratic Party. Yet despite packaging themselves as reasonable centrists, Democrats running in Texas and Kentucky are… → Read More
Why I Stopped Reading Playboy for the Articles
Men's magazines used to publish thought-provoking authors. Now they've gone over to the SJW left. → Read More