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A Security Guarantee for Ukraine?

Bondi Beach Shooting Stuns Australia

Americans Respond to Price Signals, News at 11

The Big Ben Show: Miranda Devine on J6 Bomber, Brian Cox on Double Tap

How Republicans Astroturfed Jasmine Crockett Into a Senate Race

Will The Netflix-WBD Deal Pass Muster With Trump And Wall Street?

A Triumph of Self-Obsession

The Big Ben Show: Somali Fraud, Narco Wars, and SCOTUS Speech Showdown

This One Simple Trick To Reject Anti-Semitism

Roger Goodell Wants To Conquer the World

Mark Kelly Warns Every Military Member To Think Like a Lawyer

The Big Ben Show: Super-Sized Thanksgiving Episode!

The Trump Doctrine and Ukraine

Congress's Carnival of the Absurd

Marjorie Taylor Greene For President?

The Big Ben Show: Senator John Kennedy on the MAGA Crackup

Is The MAGA Crackup Finally Here?

The Big Ben Show: MAGA Crackup, Trump's China and Nigeria Policies, And: Who Needs ESPN?

This Shutdown Has Seen the End of Pelosi - Will It See The End of Schumer, Too?

What If You Did A Shutdown About Nothing?

Does Socialism's Rise Spell The End of Private Property?

The Big Ben Show: Caroline Downey, Charles Murray

In New York, The Burnt Hand Teaches Best

Election Day: Sure Zohran's Never Worked a Day, But He's Got That Aura

A Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Mess on the Right

An Interview with Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation

I'm Skeptical About The Whole David Ellison - Bari Weiss CBS (Maybe Also CNN?) Thing

The Big Ben Show: VA Elections, NBA Scandals, and AOC's Crazy Talk

All Hail The Mighty Autopen, PBUH

Beware the Global Gen Z Revolution

Bonus Edition of The Big Ben Show on Trump's Whirlwind White House

The Big Ben Show: Israel, Ukraine, and Drinking Yourself Sober

"Using A Ten-Ton Truck To Kill An Ant"

J.D. Vance Rejected The Love Letters of the Elite, and That's Why They Hate Him So Much

Trump's Venezuela Gamble

The Big Ben Show: Virginia Elections, Lawfare, and Cable TV

The Shutdown Isn't Boosting Democrats

The Hostages Are Coming Home, How Inconvenient

Why Aren't The Ceasefire Now Folks Celebrating Today?

The Big Ben Show: Virginia Politics, Kavanaugh's Assassin, Maria Bartiromo

The Fall of the Democratic Gatekeepers

Is Abigail Spanberger Officially in Trouble?

Dave Chappelle Prostrates Himself Before the Saudis

The Big Ben Show: Nancy Mace, Brian Kilmeade, and Shutdown Politics

Democrats Try Shutdown Politics On For Clout

The Shutdown Cometh

Occupy Wall Street's Revenge Takes The Big Apple

James Comey Gets Indicted

The Big Ben Show: UNGA and Israel, and Jimmy Kimmel's Return

The New Tech Obsession With Heaven and Hell

Trump Goes Hammer and Tongs at The Rotten United Nations

Poll: Democrats Believe Jimmy Kimmel's Lie About Charlie Kirk's MAGA Shooter

Proposed: A Grand Bargain on the FCC Consternation

The Big Ben Show: Why The Left Has To Lie About Charlie Kirk

Yes, We Deserve To Know You Hate Us

A Time To Mourn

What Comes After Charlie Kirk's Assassination

America's Educational Devastation

Crime Takes Center Stage For Trump

Donald Trump's Mexican Standoff

The Big Ben Show: Matt Taibbi and Mark Schlereth

The Trump Admin Pulls The Trigger Terrorist Cartels

The Middle Class Gets Worried

Thoughts After The Tragedy in Minnesota

The Big Ben Show: Hunter Biden Dreams of Politics

Why Cracker Barrel Matters

The Open Arms of Uganda Await Maryland Man

The Big Ben Show: Chef Andrew Gruel

The Big Ben Show: Midterm Preview, Media Lies, and Summer of Sydney

The Big Ben Show: Douglas Murray on Free Speech, Mamdani, and That Rogan Debate

Big Ben Show: Sydney Sweeney, The Steele Dossier, and Fantastic Four

Trump Talks at Turnberry

Democrats Adopt The George Costanza Defense On Russiagate

The Big Ben Show: Colbert, Crack, Krypton, KOTOR and Comedy

Explosive Revelations on Russiagate

Could The Redskins Return To RFK?

Ari Aster Just Made The Definitive Movie About Covid, BLM, And 2020 Insanity And The Left Is Furious

New Big Ben Show: Superman and The Swamp

How Texas Ate Hollywood

Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow?

New Big Ben Show: Epstein, Elon, and the NFL

The Big Ben Show + The Big Beautiful Bill

New Big Ben Show: Trump Sends a Message to Iran, Israel, and the World

Faith

The Podcasting Power of Strange New Respect

New Big Ben Show: Will Trump Go To War With Iran?

Trump on Iran: "Nobody knows what I’m going to do.”

Will Trump's Decision Break MAGA, Or Reiterate His Power Over It?

Donald Trump Alone Defines America First

Did The U.S. Just Rope-A-Dope Iran For Israel's Strike?

The Violence in L.A. Isn't Organic

The Left Has Learned Nothing From a Decade of Protests

How To Restore Order in Los Angeles

Democrats Have a Severe ICE Problem

The Big Ben Show: Men Bully Their Way Into Girl's Sports

What Will The Right Learn From DOGE?

The Democrats Face An Impossible Task

Can Trump Make DOGE Cuts Permanent Without Congress?

Same Sex Marriage Reverts To Another Partisan Divide

Democrats' Toxic Anti-Masculinity Problem

Are Democrats Headed Off a Woke Cliff?

D.C.'s Radical Pro-Hamas Killer Shot Victims 21 Times

A Big Beautiful Morning For House Republicans

James Comey Is Better Than You And He Is Never Wrong

On Joe Biden's Cancer, What Did The White House Know And When Did They Know It?

Deacon Mike Hits a Big Beautiful Wall

New Big Ben Show: Covid Madness Lives On Forever!

Can The GOP Hold It Together on Reconciliation?

Have You Lost Friends Over 2024? You're Not Alone, Especially On The Left

Bill Maher to Young Democrats: Stop Hating America Already

Daaaaaaa Pope

Announcing The Big Ben Show!

Vance to Munich: Russian Demands are the Reason Ukraine War Isn't Ending

An Interview With Christopher Rufo

With Tariffs, Trump Wants To Make Hollywood Great Again

The Press Turns On John Fetterman, And You Get One Guess Why

Josh Hawley's 50,000 Foot View

100 Days To Upend The Blob

The Abortion Pill Is More Dangerous Than We Thought

Elissa Slotkin's "War Plan": Democrats Need To Be More Like Dan Campbell

Witkoff and Rubio Walk Away From U.K. Ukraine Talks

Pete Hegseth is a Proxy for a Deeper Conflict

Pope Francis, RIP

On Illegal Migrants, Democrats Are Choosing The Wrong Ground To Fight On

Trump vs. Higher Ed

Republicans Need To Figure Out Their Elon Musk Narrative

The Democrats' Big Voter Problem

Welcome To The Court of the Sun King

The Everything Everywhere All At Once White House Vindicated By SCOTUS

Trump Issues Veto Threat on Tariffs As Markets Whipsaw

Thomas Sowell on Trump's Tariffs: "A Ruinous Decision" Sparking a "Worldwide Trade War"

"Liberation Day" Arrives, And I Can Think Of Two Things Wrong With That Name

American Supremacy And Its Critics

Day Two of the Goldberg Groupchat Fallout

The Most Transparent Administration Ever Has Entered The Groupchat

Why So Many Americans Support Firing Federal Workers

Why John Oliver Blatantly Lied To You About Online Gambling

Nancy Pelosi Joins Knives Out: Chuck Schumer Edition

Trump Takes on the District Courts

Democrats Are In Disarray

And Just Like That, Schumer Caves

The Budget Briar Patch

The Free Speech Deportation Divide

Let's Start With Cutting Half, That Seems Like a Reasonable Start

Ukraine to Propose Ceasefire

The Trumpian Trap

Donald Trump in the Oval

The Show Must Go On: Ukraine, Europe Struggle to Salvage a Path Forward

I Interviewed Donald Trump Yesterday

Keir Starmer Comes To Washington

"If You Go Up Against Trump, You'll Lose"

Asking "What Would You Say You Do Here?" Is Not A Constitutional Crisis

Europe's Reality Check on Ukraine

CBS News’ Valentine to Censorship

Trump's Hundred Days of Shock and Awe

Celebrating George Washington's Birthday

Trump Puts The Cartels On Notice

What Cost Democrats the Election? Immigration

Taxpayer Funded Censorship Deserves To Be Destroyed

A DOGE Shutdown Could Be Just What Republicans Want

Super Bored

Hey D.C., Ibram X. Kendi's Back in Town

The Real Test Launched By Trump 2.0: Defining Executive Power

Welcome to the Move Fast and Break Things Presidency

The Unexpected USAID Battle

Tulsi Gabbard's Nomination Comes to a Head This Week

Capitol Hill Takes On Trump's Avengers

Welcome to the New Media Reality in America

Trump to Bureaucrats: Freeze

A Big Week for Cabinet Nominees

The Big Q For Democrats: How To Resist?

Ross Freed

Trump's First Target: The DEI Agenda

Donald Trump's Executive Order Sabre Dance

A Tense Inauguration in the Round

On Inauguration Eve, a Look Back at a Story That Changed Everything

Joe Biden's Bitter Old Growth Whine

Capitol Hill's Forgotten Knowledge: What Hearings Are For

Democrats Flail at Pete Hegseth

Welcome to Cabinet Week!

California Fires Are An Indictment Of Nationalizing Everything In Politics

Democrats Try To Navigate New Positioning For Trump 2.0

Donald Trump's New World Order

2024 Was Crazy, Welcome to 2025, Let's Talk About Sabrina Carpenter