David Harsanyi

1 day ago | washingtonexaminer.com | David Harsanyi

“We got so screwed by Biden, as a party,” former Obama advisor David Plouffe is quoted saying in a New Yorker excerpt from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. The supposition of the piece, headlined, “How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump,” is that Democrats only failed to hold the White House because of Biden’s prideful obstinacy.

1 day ago | washingtonexaminer.com | David Harsanyi

President Donald Trump is preparing to accept a repurposed luxury jet from Qatar, a nation he once correctly referred to as the world’s leading “funder of terrorism” and “radical ideology,” to replace an aging Air Force One. Qatar, the president says, will bequeath him the palatial jet “free of charge.” Well, there’s no such thing as a free plane. A typical no-frills Boeing 747-800 costs somewhere around $400 million. If this one weren’t so luxurious, the president wouldn’t want it.

3 days ago | nysun.com | David Harsanyi

Last week, a Hamas apologist and serial fabricator, Mosab Abu Toha, who vilified female Israeli hostages and justified their kidnapping on October 7, 2023, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for a series of essays about Gaza in the New Yorker. It is unsurprising, because the Pulitzer Prizes have become an irremediable joke.

5 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | David Harsanyi

“On abortion, I will always advocate for life,” says the headline of a 2022 op-ed by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) in USA Today. In this case, always, meaning “at all times and on all occasions,” only lasted until the congressman was compelled to prove it. In a meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) this week, Lawler, as well as Reps. Jen Kiggans (R-VA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), reportedly pressured leadership to drop the idea of defunding Planned Parenthood via reconciliation.

6 days ago | arcamax.com | David Harsanyi

Last week, Mosab Abu Toha, a Hamas apologist and serial fabricator who vilified female Israeli hostages and justified their kidnapping on Oct. 7, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for a series of essays about Gaza in The New Yorker. It is unsurprising, because the Pulitzer Prizes have become an irremediable joke.