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, 14 Jul 2026 09:54:02 -0400<![CDATA[Okay, I read the comments, and YES, lots of Jews vote for the destroyers of America.]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Alan Joseph Bauer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/07/14/jew-are-you-n2679320<![CDATA[The Islamic Republic has entered the most dangerous phase of its 47-year existence. Every option before the ruling clerics carries enormous risk. Every decision accelerates the crisis. Every attempt to cling to power deepens the misery of the Iranian people. Only weeks ago, Tehran's leaders claimed victory after surviving a bruising confrontation with Israel and the United States. Today, that illusion lies in ruins. The fragile ceasefire has collapsed, American strikes have resumed, Iranian missiles have targeted neighboring Gulf states, commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz has come under attack, and the regime has succeeded in alienating almost every country in the region. Far from projecting strength, the clerical establishment appears increasingly isolated, desperate, and unpredictable.]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Struan Stevenson]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/struanstevenson/2026/07/14/bread-bombs-and-bankruptcy-irans-theocracy-faces-its-final-reckoning-n2679323<![CDATA[Last week, the Television Academy announced its 78th Emmy nominations, and Taylor Sheridan's entire slate got the reception you'd give a telemarketer. “Landman,” Paramount+'s flagship drama with Billy Bob Thornton and Sam Elliott, walked away with nothing. “The Madison,” led by Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, got nothing either. Sheridan's grand total across two of the most watched shows on television: one nomination, for stunt coordination on “Tulsa King.”&nbsp;Meanwhile Ryan Murphy's “All's Fair,” a show even its own network calls critically panned, picked up two nods. I coached high school track and field for years. If a kid runs the fastest 400 meters in the state and the judges hand the ribbon to the boy who tripped over the last hurdle, you ask questions. Hollywood never does.]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/07/14/hollywood-snubs-its-own-audience-then-wonders-why-its-broke-n2679343<![CDATA[In Virginia Lee Burton's classic 1939 children's book "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel," Mulligan often boasted that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, "could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week, but he had never been quite sure that this was true."]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Salena Zito]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2026/07/14/more-than-a-machine-big-boy-no-4014-sparks-a-nationwide-reunion-n2679364<![CDATA[I don’t know Sunny Hostin, one of the center hags on The View, nor would I ever want to. I’m not in the habit of keeping company with racist, race hustlers or race baiters – I’m old fashioned that way. Sunny is all of those things and more. She is the equivalent of finding out your cancer-riddled dog has worms too, as there is no end to how horrible of a creature she is.]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Derek Hunter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/07/14/what-will-happen-when-the-ladies-on-the-view-die-n2679369<![CDATA[I’ve learned the hard way that Mother Nature is anything but weak and feeble.]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Purcell]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/tompurcell/2026/07/14/mother-nature-is-out-to-get-me-n2679370<![CDATA[America has a strange habit of waiting until its leaders are gone before deciding they were worthy of honor.]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[State Rep. Meg Weinberger]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/meg-weinberger/2026/07/14/why-i-put-president-trumps-name-on-palm-beachs-airport-n2679374<![CDATA[Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a state budget that omitted taxpayer funding of California's ethnic studies graduation mandate. Parents celebrated but they shouldn't get too comfortable. The ideological takeover of the American classroom didn't wait for California's legislature, and it isn't slowing down. School districts across the United States are already offering ethnic studies courses that promote divisive, anti-American, and Marxist ideas to children as young as kindergarten.]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Marissa Streit]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/marissa-streit/2026/07/14/californias-ethnic-studies-retreat-masks-a-national-classroom-movement-n2679334<![CDATA[Over the weekend, The New York Times came out with an overview of its coverage last month of the Graham Platner sexual assault allegations. It was just over one month ago when the outlet delivered its quasi-exposé on three women detailing troubling experiences with the Senate candidate who possesses no discernible resume. The primary focus was on Lyndsey Fifield, and there have been contentious reactions about that report—Fifield included.]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:50:00 -0400<![CDATA[Brad Slager]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/bradslager/2026/07/13/the-ny-times-explainer-for-its-catch-and-kill-report-to-benefit-graham-platner-n2679347<![CDATA[Two years ago today, Donald Trump turned his head.]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Sharpsteen]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/matt-sharpsteen/2026/07/13/the-day-america-almost-lost-its-future-n2679337<![CDATA[On Saturday, I lost more than a friend. It feels as though I've lost a member of my family.]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:35:00 -0400<![CDATA[Armstrong Williams]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2026/07/13/the-measure-of-a-life-remembering-my-friend-lindsey-graham-n2679329<![CDATA[I am a veteran of the United States Army, having served 22 years as a commissioned officer. On July 31, 1982, at the University of Tennessee, I took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." That oath does not have a statute of limitations. It is the same oath that I "took" as a Member of the United States House of Representatives. The funny thing about taking the oath in Congress was that I did not repeat the words. The words were spoken by the Speaker of the House. And here we are in our constitutional republic, potentially about to see individuals become Members of Congress who are enemies of American independence.]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Allen West]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/allenwest/2026/07/13/the-enemies-of-american-independence-n2679232<![CDATA[There’s a big empty lane within Democrat politics, and unfortunately for the Democrats, no one seems to be smart or brave enough to merge into it. What’s that lane? It’s the “Not being completely crazy while also not being completely ancient” lane. It really is that simple. Someone could swoop into that electoral sweet spot, but so far, no one has seen fit to take the risk and fight the fight to capitalize—though they all do hate capitalism—on this tremendous opportunity. All they have to do is just act normal and not be a million years old to distinguish themselves and maybe win by appealing to normal people again.]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kurt Schlichter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/07/13/no-democrat-has-the-brains-or-courage-to-not-be-crazy-n2679243<![CDATA[The Democrats can’t think of a good reason to like the United States.]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Alan Joseph Bauer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/07/13/fighting-for-nothing-n2679271<![CDATA[[Editor's note: this piece was co-authored by John Bonura and Selene Rodriguez]]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[John Bonura]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/john-bonura/2026/07/13/millions-more-people-millions-fewer-affordable-homes-n2679273<![CDATA[The last thing I ever said to Senator Lindsey Graham was “You’re a good man.” The way Senator Graham lived made it easy to tell him.]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Larry Provost]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/larryprovost/2026/07/13/lindsey-graham-a-good-man-n2679276<![CDATA[I spend my days reading growth curves. A pension fund's unfunded liability, a private equity fund's internal rate of return, a hedge fund's drawdown. You learn to read a line on a chart the way a doctor reads one on a different kind of monitor. Most political organizations produce a flat line for decades, a small bump around an election, then flat again. The Democratic Socialists of America just produced a line that would get flagged in any diligence memo I've written in 30 years. An organization with 6,000 members in 2015 crossed 100,000 in February 2026, and by this July had passed the old high-water mark for American socialism: the roughly 113,000 members the Socialist Party of America claimed at its 1912 peak under Eugene Debs. DSA now calls itself, correctly, the largest socialist organization in American history.]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/07/13/the-democratic-socialists-arent-fringe-anymore-n2679278<![CDATA[The midterm elections are fast approaching, and Republicans are clinging to slim majorities in both houses of Congress. To retain control, Republicans must overcome the historical advantages that favor the Democrat Party. The party not in control of the White House and Congress usually performs well in midterm elections, as voters tend to look for “change.”]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jeff Crouere]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2026/07/13/to-retain-control-of-congress-gop-must-protect-seniors-n2679284<![CDATA[Independence Day has come and gone, but President Trump still deserves special recognition for presiding over our glorious 250th anniversary.]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Arthur Schaper]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2026/07/13/thank-you-president-trump-for-a-wonderful-250th-anniversary-n2679285<![CDATA[This weekend’s death of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at age 71 has sent shockwaves through official Washington, including the White House.]]>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:34:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Tradup]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/tomtradup/2026/07/12/talk-radio-has-lost-a-good-friend-with-the-passing-of-senator-lindsey-graham-n2679269