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Monday, March 3
Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again
Sherrod Brown, The New Republic
Trump & Many of His Policies Are Popular. Dems Are Tanking
Mark Penn, FOX News
Europe Embraces Zelensky After He Was Vilified by Trump
Stephen Collinson, CNN
Is Europe Misunderstanding Trump's Stance on Ukraine?
Stephen Wertheim, Guardian
Zelensky's 'Ukraine-Splaining' Makes Peace More Difficult
Marco Rubio, This Week
Trump Has No Interest in Countering Aggressors
Olga Chyzh, The Guardian
Zelensky Believed His Own Publicity
Sasha Stone, Substack
Why DOGE Can't Fix the Deficit
Ryan Chapman, The Hill
Why Can't the Pentagon's Bean Counters Shoot Straight?
Ivry & Portnoy, RCI
Who Really Politicized the Pentagon?
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
To Be a Peacemaker, Trump Must Build Up the Navy
Giarra & Wirtz, RealClearDefense
Trump Escalates His War on Independent Agencies
Peter Shane, Washington Monthly
Entitlement Fraud a Gigantic Magnet for Illegal Aliens
Elon Musk, Joe Rogan Show
Millions May Die Thanks to Elon Musk
Ryan Cooper, The American Prosepct
Trump's Right: Fire Bad Govt Employees & Reward Good Ones
Stephen Moore, WT
Will Harvard Bend or Break?
Nathan Heller, The New Yorker
Best and Worst Moments From the 2025 Oscars
Lauren Sarner, New York Post
Direction of Country: NPR/PBS/Marist 45% | Rasmussen Reports 45%
Tuesday, March 4
Trump Readies First Second-Term Congressional Address
Philip Wegmann, RCP


The Democrats' Coming Civil War
Joel Kotkin, Spiked
Ro Khanna Is Doing More Than Voting 'No'
Jon Wiener, The Nation
Trump's Aggressive Approach To End Russia-Ukraine War
Nicole Russell, USA Today
Europe Has Bought Zelensky Some Time
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Americans Can No Longer Tolerate European Entitlement
Michael Shellenberger, X
The Evil People Who Surround and Command Zelensky
Scott McKay, Am. Spectator
Why 2nd Trump Presidency Is Worse for Democrats
Alex Shephard, The New Republic
DOGE's Key Reveal: Budget Maze Made Impervious To Reform
James Varney, RCI
Dem Cities, States Terribly Run. Highest Taxes for Nothing
Fareed Zakaria, Real Time
Was CNN Tipped Off To Stream the Butler Rally?
Bill Ackman, X
The Assault on the Independent Judiciary
Clint Bolick, RealClearPolitics
SCOTUS Should Restore the President's Executive Power
Ilya Shapiro, City Journal
Trump Is Right About Eliminating the Debt Ceiling
Alan Blinder, Wall Street Journal
Hopes for Two-State Solution Lay Buried With Kfir, Ariel Bibas
Cooper & Soffen, RCP
Will Shapiro Call His Fellow Democrats on Their BS?
Sean Cooper, The Free Press
A Monumental Shift, Not Just a 'Spat'
Raheem Kassam, National Pulse
Trump Job Approval: Emerson 48% | Daily Mail 54% | NPR 45% | RCP Avg: 48.6%
Wednesday, March 5
Trump Tells Congress "America Is Back" As Dems Protest
Philip Wegmann, RCP


President Trump's Speech Signals More Chaos Ahead
Andrew Prokop, Vox
Congratulations, Dems: You Disgusted the Entire Country
Sasha Stone, Substack
Trump Bulldozes Through Joint Address to Congress
Roger Kimball, The Spectator
Slotkin: America Needs 'Responsible,' Not 'Reckless' Change
Susan Crabtree, RCP
Where Elissa Slotkin Won Me Over
Hayes Brown, MSNBC
The Smearing and Resurrection of NIH Appointee Bhattacharya
Paul Thacker, RCI
DOGE Fired Me From USAID. Elon Musk Must Be Stopped
Peter Gaff, USA Today
What Is Realistic in Ukraine?
Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative
Ukraine Without America
Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs
National Review Sides With the War Party Again
Francis Sempa, American Spectator
The Chaotic Killing Off of the Government
Jill Lawrence, The Bulwark
Under President Trump, Our Borders Are Secure Again
Rep. Andy Biggs, Townhall
Jeff Bezos and the Goose-Stepping of Opinion
John Hamilton, RealClearPolitics
New Incidents Show Why Trump Is Right About DEI
Ingrid Jacques, USA Today
Time to Ditch DEI in Favor of Something Better
Richard Kahlenberg, The Liberal Patriot
President Trump Came Through for Los Angeles
Scott Jennings, LA Times
Watch/Listen: President Trump Addresses Joint Session of Congress
Thursday, March 6
Trump Slays Dems: All We Needed Was a New President
Ingrid Jacques, USA Today


The Democrats' Message Is Splintered--But Getting Better
Christian Paz, Vox
They Said It Couldn't Be Done
Mark Krikorian, Commonplace
Trump Proves He's Always in Campaign Mode
Jeet Heer, The Nation
A $20 Billion Slush Fund--Paid by You to Progressive Nonprofits
Bari Weiss, X
Why the Shuttering of 538 Is a Big Deal
John Nolte, Breitbart
The Case for a Shadow Cabinet
Kenny Stancil, American Prospect
Forget Delaware--'Y'all Street' Is Open for Business
Gov. Greg Abbott, Wall St. Journal
This Small City Holds Secret to Democrats' Latino Woes
Greg Sargent, New Republic
The Great Tech-Family Alliance
Katherine Boyle, Tablet Magazine
Microsoft Still Promotes Censorship Group NewsGuard
Logan Washburn, Federalist
Make Democrats Funny Again
Joe Jacobson, Newsweek
Democratizing American Prosperity
Keeley & Sorenson, National Review
How Ukraine Can Still Survive
Mike Lofgren, Washington Monthly
Zelensky's Grift Ends When the War Ends
David Sacks, FOX News
Good Hands. Out of Money
Mary Walsh, Substack
If Its Ideas Are Good, the Right Needn't Fear TikTok
John Tamny, Forbes
Friday, March 7
What's Slowing Down the Trump Revolution
Stephen Collinson, CNN


The Real Problem in Washington D.C.
James Piereson, The New Criterion
The New Republican Political Correctness
Jonathan Zimmerman, The Hill
Dems Dangerously Out of Sync With the American People
Josh Hammer, LA Times
If 538 Was So 'Valuable' Why Did Disney Shutter It?
Robert Stacy McCain
Is the Education Department Going Away?
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
Americans Are Cheering Trump's Passionate Patriotism
Dominic Green, NY Post
Gov. Newsom Joins MAGA Crusade Against Trans Athletes
Erkki Forster, Daily Beast
Newsom’s Wife Recently Partnered w/Pro-Trans Athlete Group
Susan Crabtree, RCP
We Need Economic Democracy, Not Oligarchy
Rep. Tlaib & McCarthy, The Guardian
Treasury Secretary Talks Trump's Growth Agenda
Larry Kudlow, FOX Business
Five Ukrainian Fables
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
A Dangerous Shift: America's Changing Stance on Ukraine War
Andrew Moroz, RCP
Media Interested in Narratives. Trump Wants Peace
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
The Republican Attack on Diversity in Higher Education
Ricky Jones, Courier-Journal
Trump's School Choice
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
I Thought Hamilton Was for America. I Was Wrong
Sasha Stone, Substack
Saturday, March 8
An Oral History of Crimefighting That Works
Robert VerBruggen, Washington Examiner
Democrats Should 'Do Something.' And They Are
Bill Scher, Washington Monthly
Democrats Won't Even Stand for Cancer Survivor
Ingrid Jacques, USA Today
Don't Be Fooled by Trump's Backpedals
Hayes Brown, MSNBC
A Border Bill Was Never Necessary
John Davidson, The Federalist
Democrats Need To Rethink All the Anti-Tariff Absolutism
Rep. Chris Deluzio, X
DOGE Has Consultant Cabal on the Run
Theresa Payton, RealClearPolitics
I Lost My Job at USAID, But I Still Have Hope
Christian Smith, The Guardian
Report: Dem Donor Platform ActBlue in Chaos, Workers Flee
Simon Kent, Breitbart
How To Fight Deportations
Jonathan van Harmelen, The New Republic
Don't Count on SCOTUS To End Birthright Citizenship
Jacob Grandstaff, RCP
Timeline of Nato Expansionism Leading to Russia-Ukraine War
Will Cain, FOX News
America Owes Ukraine a Thank-You Card
Dzmitry Halko, Salon
Dems Stuck in a Hole on Foreign Policy
Blaise Malley, Responsible Statecraft
The Predictable Destruction of Christian Communities in Mideast
Tucker Carlson, X
In Defense of Tuning Out
John Halpin, Substack
Last Call for Bud Light?
Anson Frericks, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
Sunday, March 9
President Trump's 'Might-Is-Right' Politics
Will Hutton, The Guardian
Trust the Wisdom of Regular People
Karl Zinsmeister, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
James Carville Is Wrong. Dems Should Fight, Not 'Play Dead'
Jos Joseph, The Hill
Democrats Look Silly and Their Numbers Are Really Tanking
Mark Penn, WABC
Why I Resigned From the Royal Society Over Elon Musk
Kit Yates, The Guardian
The Vindication of Jay Bhattacharya
Brendan O'Neill, Spiked
China Has a Message for Trump: The US Won’t Stop Its Rise
Simone McCarthy, CNN
Secretary Hegseth and the Gathering Storm
Francis Sempa, RealClearDefense
Putin Has Bent the World, Including the US, to His Vision
Franklin Foer, The Atlantic
Jeffrey Sachs, David Sacks Take It to the 'Warmongers'
Douglas MacKinnon, The Hill
Grim Lessons From Phase One of the Israel-Hamas Deal
Peter Berkowitz, RCP
DOJ Reaffirms Biden-Era Plan To Break Up Google
Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post
Trump Must Keep Up Crackdown on Campus Antisemites
Michael Goodwin, NY Post
Trump Is Using the Media Just Like Mussolini
Chris Matthews, Morning Joe
MSNBC's Acute Case of Trump Derangement Syndrome
Joe Concha, FOX News
Gavin Newsom's 'Civility' Looks Spineless
LeBron Hill, Sacramento Bee
ABC Shuts Down Pro-Leftist Polling Site 538
Logan Washburn, The Federalist


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