Mr. Hammer is opinion editor of Newsweek, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, counsel and policy advisor for the Internet Accountability Project, a syndicated columnist through Creators and a contributing editor for Anchoring Truths. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal and cultural issues, he is a constitutional attorney by training.
The president is encouraging protesters to keep on risking their lives for freedom because help is coming soon from Uncle Sam.
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Lincoln’s warning of 1838 echoes: ‘there is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.’
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After a great 2025, unfinished business awaits as we flip the calendar.
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It’s past time to recognize Beijing as our foremost geopolitical adversary in a multigenerational cold war.
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Signs emerge that leading liberal voices are recoiling from the doom and gloom.
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If economic anxiety persists through next fall’s midterms, voters will punish whichever party appears more indifferent to their struggles.
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If he prevails, the grave consequences will extend far beyond the Big Apple.
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Will there even be a Europe, in any cognizable sense of the term, a century from now?
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The party fails to learn any lessons from Trump’s political successes.
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The conservative activist leaves behind a nearly-completed book about the day of rest and worship — a biblical concept he championed in his personal life.
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The president’s deployment of the National Guard to combat urban disorder is political jiu-jitsu at its finest.
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Arguments against terminating the central bank governor are a reminder of the administrative state’s role as a fourth branch of government, unmoored from direct political accountability.
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