https://townhall.com/columnists/feedTownhall is the leading source for conservative news, political cartoons, breaking stories, election analysis and commentary on politics and the media culture. An information hub for conservatives, republicans, libertarians, and liberty-loving Americans.en-usTue, 11 Aug 2026 04:10:09 -0400<![CDATA[CHAUTAUQUA, New York — The road here feels like one of those places that America keeps tucked away on purpose — the kind that you don't stumble into by accident. You come in from the hills and hollows and farm country, past the modest storefronts and weathered porches, and then the land opens up near Chautauqua Lake, where the place that gave the movement its name still seems to hold the memory of a nation trying to teach itself how to learn.]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Salena Zito]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2026/08/11/reclaiming-the-middle-chautauquas-slow-push-toward-balance-n2681025<![CDATA[American entrepreneurs are beginning to flourish again.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Purcell]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/tompurcell/2026/08/11/as-goes-the-american-entrepreneur-so-goes-america-n2681020<![CDATA[Did you hear the news? AOC is freezing her eggs! It was all the rage over the weekend, as the socialist livestreamed as she administered shots on herself to make the process work (I don’t claim to be a doctor, nor do I care, so I’m not going to pretend to understand how the process works). Some people were supportive, others attacked it for religious or anger reasons. Ultimately, however, I care a hell of a lot more about how she votes than how, if at all, she reproduces.]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Derek Hunter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/08/11/aoc-plans-to-have-little-climate-change-victims-by-freezing-her-eggs-n2681019<![CDATA[New inventions and technologies, from the lightbulb to the farm tractor to the automobile to the laptop computer to Uber drivers, cause serious job market disruptions. They also cause a backlash, as horse and buggy operators, cab drivers, video rental stores, and typewriter makers inevitably predicted chaos and job losses.]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Moore]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2026/08/11/what-bank-atms-teach-us-about-ai-n2681017<![CDATA[The Executive and Judicial Branches have recently weighed in on birthright citizenship. Now it's the Legislative Branch's turn.]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jeremy Beck]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jeremy-beck/2026/08/11/congress-can-still-act-on-birthright-citizenship-n2680998<![CDATA[There is only one way that the story can end.]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Alan Joseph Bauer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/08/11/buy-guns-and-lots-of-ammo-n2680962<![CDATA[There should be some questions so fundamental that answering them does not require a political debate.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:25:00 -0400<![CDATA[Armstrong Williams]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2026/08/10/the-wnba-cant-define-its-first-letter-and-its-going-to-cost-it-n2681001<![CDATA[In 30 days, this country marks 25 years since 19 men murdered nearly 3,000 of us on a Tuesday morning that started like any other. A quarter century. Long enough that some of the people reading this column weren’t alive for it. Long enough that the raw, unified grief of that September has faded into something more like a civic ritual — a moment of silence, a name-reading, a flag at half-staff, and then back to whatever we were doing.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:58:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kevin McCullough]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2026/08/10/25-years-ago-coming-to-a-mosque-near-you-n2680983<![CDATA[The U.S. federal government is several weeks away from reaching a disturbing milestone, surpassing $40 trillion in debt.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jeff Crouere]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2026/08/10/40-trillion-debt-is-americas-greatest-threat-n2680956<![CDATA[The left, along with a couple of RINOs, successfully stopped President Donald Trump’s anti-weaponization fund for victims of lawfare. Democrat senators, along with RINO Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Tom Tillis (R-NC), refused to approve Todd Blanche as attorney general unless he agreed to drop his plans to create the fund, so he did.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rachel Alexander]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2026/08/10/the-lefts-faux-outrage-over-settlements-to-victims-of-lawfare-n2680955<![CDATA[On July 10, the committee that actually runs University of California admissions did something worth a double-take. It didn't reinstate the SAT. It didn't reject it either. It killed its own study into the question. That came three weeks after more than 800 UC faculty members, including seven of the university's nine math department chairs, signed an open letter admitting they now reteach middle school arithmetic to freshmen who made it into one of the most selective public university systems on earth. Read that again. It played out like a Bluth family board meeting: everyone confident, nobody deciding anything.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/08/10/bring-back-the-bar-what-ucs-retreat-from-the-sat-teaches-america-n2680948<![CDATA[Here’s a taste:]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Lewis]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/08/10/prepare-for-the-dsa-revolution-n2680947<![CDATA[Some people make the grave mistake of believing their own press.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Alan Joseph Bauer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/08/10/vips-very-important-persons-syndrome-n2680946<![CDATA[I identify as Gen X even though I was technically born in the last week of the Baby Boom, and my generational cohort is taking a lot of grief from a lot of young people — by whom I mean anybody not of driving age when 9/11 happened. The rap is this: the older folks rigged the game and, to the extent they have gotten out of the way (Boomers being accused of selfishly clinging to power, prestige, and position long after their sell-by date), we have left subsequent generations an economic Schiff sandwich. Some of this critique is justified — those kooky kids today are right that they got served up an unprecedented set of obstacles and challenges to success. But us crusties have a point too: if you’re regularly dropping your cash on the proverbial $20 burrito, you’re doing money management wrong.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kurt Schlichter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/08/10/young-people-got-shafted-and-need-to-suck-it-up-n2680923<![CDATA[Useful Idiots — A political phrase, often attributed to Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin referring to naive people who support a harsh group or movement without knowing its true goals.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Allen West]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/allenwest/2026/08/10/black-democrats-refuse-to-be-the-useful-idiots-of-the-marxists-n2680904<![CDATA[Before working as an activist, commentator, and director in an international pro-family non-profit, I was a teacher.]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Arthur Schaper]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2026/08/10/special-ed-failures-in-public-education-the-norm-not-the-exception-n2680820<![CDATA[Walk through this with me for a second.]]>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:03:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kevin McCullough]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2026/08/09/clothesline-privilege-n2680939<![CDATA[We beat the Nazis and Imperial Japan. We conquered diseases and created capitalism, which lifted more people out of abject poverty than any other system ever imagined. We built the tallest, most impressive structure the world has ever seen. We even went to the moon. You should wake up every morning and thank God for the existence of men, because without men, not only would your existence be miserable, you would not exist. We, men, are amazing creatures. In fact, we are so much better at just about everything both genders can do that we now even make better women.]]>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Derek Hunter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/08/09/men-make-the-best-women-n2680929<![CDATA[The Left has long established itself as a perpetual critic of President Trump, especially in foreign affairs. When Trump ordered the destruction of Venezuelan drug-trafficking boats, many on the Left, including several senators and representatives, were outraged. How dare he target these boats? The critics asserted that these vessels were possibly navigated by innocent fishermen simply seeking to make a living.]]>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jeff Davidson]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2026/08/09/presidents-unilaterally-using-the-us-military-n2680921<![CDATA[I have reproduced the following quote from historian Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler in the late 18th century many times in my Townhall and other articles over the years.&nbsp;But it is so&nbsp;good, and so&nbsp;perceptive, and so&nbsp;needed, and I constantly have new readers (I hope), that I simply must quote it again and make some relevant comments on current America.]]>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Lewis]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/08/09/can-america-rise-above-the-tide-of-history-n2680908