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Josh Hammer

Newsweek senior editor-at-large and host, "The Josh Hammer Show"

Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large and host, "The Josh Hammer Show"

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Articles by Josh Hammer

Clarence Thomas Played the Long Game. He Won.

Opinion

Clarence Thomas Played the Long Game. He Won.

Clarence Thomas’s life story is the stuff of legends.

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Florida Is the New Ground Zero for Both Political Parties’ Civil Wars

Opinion

Florida Is the New Ground Zero for Both Political Parties’ Civil Wars

The internet, it turns out, really isn’t real life.

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The Electoral Integrity Issue Isn’t Israel—It’s Islam

Opinion

The Electoral Integrity Issue Isn’t Israel—It’s Islam

Seedy foreign money is shaping our culture and our politics, but it’s not coming from where the propagandists say it is.

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A close up of Constitution

Opinion

The Good and the Bad of the Common Good

How to balance individual liberty and dignity with the common good is one of the oldest questions in politics.

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Don’t Forget How Florida Defeated Faucism and Vindicated Federalism

Opinion

Don’t Forget How Florida Defeated Faucism and Vindicated Federalism

One-size-fits-all bureaucratic governance from the nation’s capital is incompatible with American constitutionalism and the American way of life.

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DSA Assault on Prisons Is Rooted in Third World-ist Lust for Barbarism

Opinion

DSA Assault on Prisons Is Rooted in Third World-ist Lust for Barbarism

Third World-ism is a dystopian zeal for barbarism over civilization. It’s the name of the game for the activist left.

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As AG, Todd Blanche Will Finally Seek Justice for Dems’ Dirty Lawfare

Opinion

As AG, Todd Blanche Will Finally Seek Justice for Dems’ Dirty Lawfare

If anyone wants accountability now for Democrat lawfare, it’s Todd Blanche.

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Trump Deserves Appointees Who Will Faithfully Execute His Agenda

Opinion

Trump Deserves Appointees Who Will Faithfully Execute His Agenda

Trump should continue filling every possible position with the best possible candidate.

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Mifepristone Is a Grave Evil, but Todd Blanche Is Not the Problem

Opinion

Mifepristone Is a Grave Evil, but Todd Blanche Is Not the Problem

We have a judiciary problem, not an attorney general problem.

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The Return of Socialism and the GOP’s Golden Opportunity

Opinion

The Return of Socialism and the GOP’s Golden Opportunity

At the most basic level, socialism is simply contrary to human nature.

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Congress Can Still Ban Birthright Citizenship. Here’s How.

Opinion

Congress Can Still Ban Birthright Citizenship. Here’s How.

Under Wong Kim Ark—and thus under Barbara as well—the children of invaders are not automatic birthright citizens.

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The Supreme Court Takes on the Tort Tax

Opinion

The Supreme Court Takes on the Tort Tax

Litigation must remain grounded in law, evidence, and reliable science.

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World Cup Tourists See What Too Many Americans Have Forgotten

Opinion

World Cup Tourists See What Too Many Americans Have Forgotten

The world still sees something special in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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Trump Ties His Name and Credibility to Vance’s Dubious Iran Diplomacy

Opinion

Trump Ties His Name and Credibility to Vance’s Dubious Iran Diplomacy

To place trust in Iran’s fanatical Islamist leadership is not merely naive—it’s delusional.

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Belfast Is Burning, and the Media Won’t Say Why

Opinion

Belfast Is Burning, and the Media Won’t Say Why

At some point, the people who live with the consequences of the elite’s destructive policies cease asking permission to be heard.

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CBS News’ Shakeup and the Future of the Mainstream Press

Opinion

CBS News’ Shakeup and the Future of the Mainstream Press

The American people’s trust in national news organizations has precipitously declined over the past decade.

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President Donald Trump speaks as he tours Ballroom construction around the outside the White House, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Washington.

Opinion

King Trump and the Looming MAGA Challenge

How about showing younger voters what real, decisive victory looks like?

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Mount Sinai

Opinion

A Society Without God Is a Society Without Truth

When a free people loses the ability to discern between truth and fiction, rightness and wrongness, there can only be only misery.

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President Barack Obama and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Opinion

Why Won’t Barack Obama Go Away?

Barack Obama has always exuded arrogance and harbored a thinly veiled disdain for competing viewpoints.

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Republicans Set to Best Democrats in Mid-Decade Redistricting War

Opinion

Republicans Set to Best Democrats in Mid-Decade Redistricting War

The era of race-conscious map-making is now over.

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Does the Right Still Believe in ‘No More Souters’?

Opinion

Does the Right Still Believe in ‘No More Souters’?

This summer, conservatives may have yet another opportunity to prove they have finally learned their lesson.

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