Christa Pike’s Botched Execution Denies Justice to Her Victim’s Family
On Wednesday, the state of Tennessee botched the execution of convicted first-degree murderer Christa Pike. After several attempts to administer...
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The flydubai Terror Attack Tests Middle East Security and Diplomacy
The United Arab Emirates general prosecutor continued its investigation over the weekend into the thwarted terrorist attack on the flydubai...
The IRGC’s Midterm Endorsement Creates a Problem for Democrats
The Democrats are in a quandary. They’re perplexed by a problem of their own making. How can they deal with...
Hollywood Didn’t Learn Its Lesson. Then Came Digger
This weekend’s box-office mega-bomb, Digger, could not have come out at a clearer moment. To understand why, you must accept...
Democrat Donor Strike Comes Home to Roost
As the 2026 midterms rapidly approach, the consensus among the commentariat is that the Democrats will retake control of the...
When AI Stops Answering and Starts Acting
For many of us, artificial intelligence (AI) still means ChatGPT or one of its competitors. We ask it a question,...
The IRGC and Muslim Brotherhood: An Alliance America Can’t Ignore
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”...
Israelis Stopped a Terrorist Hijacking. Why Did the Media Call It an ‘Altercation’?
Thanks to the tenacity, bravery, and ingenuity of some everyman Israeli passengers, we’ll remember Sept. 30 as just another day,...
Chandler Simpson’s One-Man Rebellion Against Baseball Analytics
We live in the age of baseball analytics. Everything is based on statistics and probabilities. In addition to introducing a...
The Thorny Issue of Immigration and the Catholic Church
Just a week after the streets of Paris were lined with hundreds of thousands of Catholics eager to greet Pope...
China’s Panda Diplomacy Can’t Hide a New Cold War
Americans can be forgiven for being confused about China. On the one hand, they are increasingly told that China is...
From Jerusalem to America: The Moral Case for Compromise
In his latest book, Jews vs. Rome, classical historian Barry Strauss writes: “Hard work, maturity, and realism are necessary to...
Supreme Court Takes Up Trump’s Third-Country Deportation Policy
A deportation order is only as viable as its destination. When no country will accept the named individual, the order...
Willie Mays and the Greatest Catch in Baseball History
The Major League Baseball playoffs have begun, which is a good time to reflect on the greatest defensive play in...
Ukraine’s Robot Army Makes Big Strides
It’s history’s first robotic airborne landing operation. Last week, Ukraine dropped grenade- and machine gun-firing robots behind Russian lines to...
The Decline of Bisexuality
Large numbers of young Americans identify as LGBTQ, but there are signs that this number could trend downward in the...
Calisthenics for the Aging Hippo
The global passion for calisthenics is on the rise. It’s the way 40-somethings seek early retirement via the high-speed route...
The Stupidity of Baseball’s ‘Artificial Runner’
Major League Baseball playoffs are in full swing (pun intended), solidifying October as the best month for sports. The NFL...
The Spectacle Ep. 474: Should the Federal Government Pay for College Degrees That Don’t Pay Enough?
The Department of Education recently implemented a new rule that bars college students from receiving federal loans for degrees that...
Don’t Let Flydubai Terror Scare Derail Abraham Accords Progress
Terrorists want nothing more than to prevent peace. It’s why they fly planes into buildings, don explosive vests, and rain...
The Genocide Accusation Against Israel: A Dangerous Projection
Some lies falsify history; others invert it. The 1903 Protocols of the Elders of Zion, still exerting influence over a century later,...
Trump vs. the Midterms
Here we go again. A look back at history and the pattern is clear. A mere two years after winning...
College Football’s Friday Night Heist
Once upon a time in America, Friday nights in the fall were the sole domain of high school football. That...
‘Super Intelligence’ Is the ‘Lake America’ of Neologisms
The president of the United States changed a word heard hundreds of times a day on cable news and with...
The 5QT Presents: The Five Black Pills, Part 2 — Islam, Islamization, and Third-Worldism
A note from the 5QT: this is the second of a five-part series which won’t just appear in the space...
The Spectacle Ep. 473: Trump Made CAFE Standards Great Again
The Trump administration’s decision to keep the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards at 34.9 mpg instead of 50.4 mpg...
‘When Will Markets React to Debt?’ Is the Wrong Question
Is the federal government’s history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so,...
Learning to Read and the Crisis of Male Demoralization
The crisis of manliness comes with many names. Just this past week my American Spectator colleagues have approached it from...
How to Actually Save Local Newspapers
Local newspapers are hurting, and many communities have lost their local paper altogether. Newspapers lost the cash cow of classified...
The Spectacle Ep. 472: The Age of Miracles: Elon Musk’s Starship Was Made to Fly
SpaceX made history once again by launching the Starship rocket into Earth’s low orbit for the first time. (RELATED: Musk...
Trump Orders Agencies to Drop ‘AI’ for ‘Super Intelligence’
It was William Shakespeare who penned that famous locution: “That which we call a rose / By any other name...
New York’s Murderous Jihad Against Red-State Infidels Must Have Consequences
I don’t follow New York politics as heavily, perhaps, as I should. I will defend myself by saying I come...
The Intellectual Rot Behind Campus Antisemitism
American Intellectual Antisemitism: The Anti-Jewish Movement Tearing Through Our Universities By: Shai Davidai Post Hill Press, 352 pages, $30 It...
Newsom’s Capitalist Manifesto
“Capitalism as we know it is not working,” Gov. Gavin Newsom recently proclaimed. “Something’s fundamentally broken here,” and so on....
A Conservative Answer to the ‘National Freakout’ Over AI
When Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, joined by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google’s Demis Hassabis, and xAI’s Elon Musk, warns that artificial intelligence...
How 1,800 Local Tradespeople Are Powering Pennsylvania’s Ultimate Energy and Data Innovation Campus
HOMER CITY, Pennsylvania — Eighteen months ago, Shawn Steffee stood in a field in Indiana County and watched the smokestacks...
Making Things More Expensive Won’t Make America Great Again
Most every Republican remembers President Reagan’s line about how the nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m...
The Trump-Xi Summit: Geopolitics and Atmospherics
The recent summit meeting in Washington, D.C., between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was long on atmospherics and...
Writing Is Critical Thinking — Even in the Age of AI
I make my living by writing, for as long as AI allows it, and one might think this article is...
10 Times Abdul El-Sayed Was Absolutely Wacked Out
On Monday, the Detroit Free Press endorsed Democrat Abdul El-Sayed for Michigan’s open Senate seat with the justification that it is...
The Spectator P.M Ep. 250: Mamdani Lets Prostitution Run Amok in NYC
Roosevelt Avenue in Queens is regarded as the “Market of Sweethearts” for prostitution, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is doing nothing...
Democrats Lust for Violence
The Newsmax headline was blunt. It read: “Study: 44% of Dems OK With Violence to Stop Trump” The news story...
Philly Fraud: What Woke Wrought
The Left is outraged that one of Philadelphia’s “leading antisemites” is not Palestinian but Jewish. The reason for the outcry...
The Spectator P.M. Ep. 249: China Fixes Its Baby Crisis With ‘Wedding Destination’ City Halls
To curb the consequences of their horrid family policies, the Chinese Communist Party has started glamorizing marriage registration offices as...
Macklemore Concert
“Macklemore Concert,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on Sep. 28, 2026.
Trump’s Final Showdown With Iran
The war with Iran is expanding in ways that seem alarming but not necessarily detrimental to the U.S. position, as...
Pope Leo’s Triomphe
Pope Leo XIV has drawn worldwide attention for packing the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris with 800,000 souls for Holy...
Sarah Sanders Steps In It Just Before the Midterms
One thing which is surely a headscratcher in advance of the November elections — which we’ve heard ad nauseam are...
Nixonmaxxing: Why Richard Nixon Is the Wrong Hero for the New Right
National Conservatives and right-wing populists, particularly from the Gen Z variety, have discovered a new hero in the late President...
Population Health vs. Personal Medicine: What COVID Taught Us About Patient Autonomy
Between constant complaints about disparities in health outcomes and the COVID pandemic, optimizing public or population health has become the...
NAZA: When an Anti-Israel Gaza Documentary Wins at Venice
Are the Israeli prize winners merely naive and wet behind the ears young adults? Or are they like the movers...
Trump Faces a Choice on Iran: Make a Deal or Escalate the War
The European press is celebrating the end of “American hegemony” in the Middle East. We are supposedly turning our backs...
Winning the Cultural Cold War: Why Americans Are Turning Away From the Literary Establishment
Feminist Marxism was on an inexorable march to cultural victory this century. Not artistic Marxism, since feminism is inherently inartistic...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Throws a Fit As Supreme Court Backs SAVE Voter Verification
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may use the SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification...
Netanyahu’s Overlooked Record on Israel’s Arab Citizens
Benjamin Netanyahu’s appearance at the United Nations drew the usual condemnation, extending well beyond criticism of the war against Hamas...
‘Sweet Caroline’ Must Die: The Stadium Song That Won’t Go Away
No matter what the sport, walk into any stadium or arena and the public address system takes you hostage. Announcements,...
My Daughter Couldn’t Read, but at Least I Had Principles
Editor’s Note: The New York Times’s 1619 Project won its lead writer, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for historical...
Will AI Destroy Humanity? There May Be a Bigger Threat
Like most elderly citizens, I don’t know a lot about the science and mechanics behind artificial intelligence (AI), but I...