Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry

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Joe Biden's cowardly fumbling on the Israel-Hamas war will alienate EVERYONE

Joe Biden is trying to chase young votes with his anti-Israel moves while also trying to keep hold of the more centrist element of his party. It won't work.

No surprise: Biden is caving to the left on Israel — because that's what he does

In a disgracefully craven move, Biden has paused weapons shipments to Israel to try to prevent a full-scale offensive against the remaining Hamas military stronghold in Rafah. 

Joe Biden's biggest problem is that his presidency is an utter failure

President Biden has suffered a collapse in his standing generally, but, fundamentally, it’s because so few people think he’s doing a good job that he’s in such a perilous state. 

Columbia's Hamas kids think the Middle East revolves around their school

Literally no-one involved in the actual conflict cares at all about Columbia. The protests there are thuggish disorder, pure and simple.

If Trump's guilty of 'election interference' — then so is Bill Clinton

The Alvin Bragg case has gotten grander at trial, but also more ridiculous.

Columbia University left-wing radicalism was dangerous in 1968 — and is now

More than 50 years after anti-Vietnam War demonstrators roiled the Columbia campus in 1968, anti-Israel agitators are disrupting the school’s operations.

How Alvin Bragg made (preposterous) history with Donald Trump's case

Alvin Bragg is to be commended for getting to trial on the Trump hush-payments case. 

Why do critics hold Israel to a higher standard — and ignore these other conflicts?

The Jewish State's critics make demands of it they'd never dream of making on another nation.

Dexter Reed is not a social-justice martyr: He shot at cops first

The Dexter Reed case shows how it’s possible to get an anti-police narrative going in almost any circumstance.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's lunatic case to oust Speaker Mike Johnson

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene can't quit bonkers arguments against members of the sensible caucus of her own party, like Speaker Mike Johnson.

Yes, Donald Trump & Co. SHOULD fight unfair anti-white racism

An Axios report on the Trump team’s intention to use civil-rights laws to target DEI policies discriminating against whites has occasioned sneering and denunciations.

Don't knock Trump's Bible marketing — the King James Version is a very American book

Of all the objectionable things Donald Trump has ever done, selling a Bible would seem to rank pretty far down the list. 

The left's attacks on the basic core American ideal of colorblindness

Once upon a time, colorblindness was an uncontroversial idea. It was considered a core American ideal and worth aspiring to, even if we were failing to live up to it.

Biden loves HIS gas-guzzler — why doesn't he get that Americans love THEIRS?

The president pushes EVs on the country, but look at his beloved 1967 Corvette Stingray. Why does he want to deprive everyone else of what he has and loves?

Bernie Sanders' four-day-work-week scheme is a prescription for poverty

Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes shortening Americans' work week to 32 hours with no loss in pay, or free breakfast, lunch and dinner, with room service delivering a late-night snack gratis.

Biden SHOULD be angry and anxious — his re-election prospects stink

The president has terrible re-election prospects; no wonder he's in such a bad mood.

Chuck Schumer just sold out our democratic ally, Israel — for Dem votes

Schumer gave an extraordinary speech flaying the democratically elected leader of an ally currently engaged in fighting a defensive war against a hideous terrorist enemy.

No, Joe, illegal immigrants didn't build America

The idea that a fraction of all immigrants “built the country” is a ridiculous fabrication and a profound insult to American workers, past and present.

Joe Biden seemed 'normal' in 2020, but then came his nothing-normal presidency

Joe Biden won the normality test in 2020. There wasn’t anything remarkable about him.

Trump nostalgia is here — and endangering Biden's presidency

Donald Trump obviously left office on a sour note in January 2021, written off by many opinion-makers and political professionals. Then President Biden happened.  The most remarkable phenomenon of the...