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-usFri, 31 Jul 2026 08:48:37 -0400<![CDATA[Last November, I wrote that with Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win, New York City would become the place where the Make America Healthy Again movement goes to die. Looking back, I underestimated just how quickly his version of “government” would begin to materialize.]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ashley Evdokimo]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/ashley-evdokimo/2026/07/31/the-grocery-store-is-just-the-beginning-n2680422<![CDATA[The spectacle of Dr. Anthony Fauci refusing to answer questions from senators by repeatedly citing his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination was blatantly ridiculous. A man who never found a microphone he didn't like was refusing to engage in defending his record. Then the elitist media that claim to be all about transparency and accountability rushed to his defense.]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tim Graham]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/timgraham/2026/07/31/journalists-want-to-bury-their-fawning-friendship-with-fauci-n2680432<![CDATA[The emergence of the Democratic Socialists of America and their political victories, from New York City across the fruited plains of Michigan and Wisconsin, all the way to Colorado, strikes many as a new thing in U.S. politics.]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Michael Barone]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2026/07/31/americas-peak-socialism-abandoned-a-century-ago-n2680431<![CDATA[Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America's botched COVID-19 response, testified this week on Capitol Hill. Except Fauci actually didn't testify: In an astonishing act of hubris and disdain for the countless Americans who bore the brunt of tyrannical COVID-era "Faucism," the mad doctor invoked the Fifth Amendment well over 100 times.]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Josh Hammer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2026/07/31/dont-forget-how-florida-defeated-faucism-and-vindicated-federalism-n2680424<![CDATA[A controversial ballot measure that would have criminalized activities like hunting, fishing, ranching, and farming failed to garner enough signatures to appear on the ballot this fall.]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Gabriella Hoffman]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/gabriellahoffman/2026/07/31/radical-oregon-ip28-to-criminalize-fishing-hunting-fails-to-land-on-november-ballot-n2680411<![CDATA[Imagine discovering your bank account has been emptied, your email has been hijacked, your retirement savings are gone, and your identity is being sold online. Then imagine learning that your antivirus worked, your password was strong, and you even remembered to use multi-factor authentication.]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Julio Rivera]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/juliorivera/2026/07/31/the-most-dangerous-cyberattack-is-the-one-youll-never-realize-you-helped-complete-n2680371<![CDATA[New Yorkers are learning costly lessons about socialist ideas in action.]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Patrice Onwuka]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/patriceonwuka/2026/07/31/democratic-socialists-use-minorities-only-to-abuse-them-later-n2680364<![CDATA[Running a small business is hard enough. Owners are already navigating inflation, labor shortages, rising insurance costs, and countless regulations. They shouldn’t have to add fear of an unpredictable IRS to the list. Today, many businesses aren’t just concerned about the taxes they owe—they’re worried about whether an audit, a prolonged dispute, or shifting IRS interpretations could jeopardize everything they’ve built. That uncertainty has become an unnecessary cost of doing business. This November, voters have a chance to change it.]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Chuck Flint]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/chuck-flint/2026/07/31/a-rogue-irs-is-a-tax-on-affordability-voters-are-taking-note-this-november-n2680355<![CDATA[The Islamic Republic of Iran has seized a historic church building and branded multiple Christian organizations as “hostile” entities. This isn’t just a false label — it’s the pretext Iran is using to shut these churches down, in direct violation of basic religious rights. We are taking action.]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:05:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jordan Sekulow]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jordan-sekulow/2026/07/30/iran-seizes-tehrans-oldest-protestant-church-n2680421<![CDATA[Who caused unaffordability?]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:10:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2026/07/30/the-socialist-monster-awakens-n2680404<![CDATA[It was not what was expected – the weaselly Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth Amendment, protecting himself from self-incrimination – but it was more of an admission of guilt, ultimately, than if he’d simply confessed to creating the COVID-19 virus in his basement himself.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Derek Hunter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/07/30/anthony-faucis-legacy-was-cemented-in-his-pathetic-senate-appearance-n2680362<![CDATA[Since 2018, USAA's Poppy Wall of Honor has become one of the nation's most moving tributes to military sacrifice. Stretching more than 130 feet, the transparent wall is adorned with hundreds of thousands of handcrafted poppies, each representing an American servicemember who gave his or her life in defense of our nation since World War I. For countless visitors, it has become a place of quiet reflection amid the grandeur of our national monuments.]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Armstrong Williams]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2026/07/30/every-name-matters-n2680354<![CDATA[Another conspiracy theory just graduated to established fact. This week, the Oversight Project, the investigative arm of the Heritage Foundation, released nearly 70 hours of audio between then-private-citizen Joe Biden and his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, recorded in 2016 and 2017 for the memoir “Promise Me, Dad.” The tapes arrived after a two-year legal fight that Biden's own lawyers lost, and they answer a question the Democratic Party spent years lying to your face about: did the former president knowingly handle classified material after leaving the vice presidency? I have spent 30 years advising fiduciaries and testifying as an expert witness in federal and state courts. Juries pay me to explain the difference between a mistake and a pattern. What I hear on these tapes is a pattern, and what I've watched for two years is a party and a press corps that knew it.]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/07/30/the-tapes-dont-lie-even-if-joe-biden-did-n2680351<![CDATA["Reacher" star Alan Ritchson recently viciously denounced President Donald Trump. During a podcast interview, Ritchson called Trump a "f***ing rapist" and claimed Trump was "all up into 13-year-olds."]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Larry Elder]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2026/07/30/reacher-actor-and-the-stench-of-a-double-standard-n2680350<![CDATA[One of the ongoing narratives driven by populists on both left and right is that the middle class and poor are lagging behind while the wealthy elite—the “top one percent”—are getting richer. CNBC, for instance, recently suggested that the stock market boom is helping mostly the wealthy while doing little for everyone else. “The surging stock market is enormously beneficial to the finances of the well-to-do,” CNBC reported Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s, saying, “but means little for most Americans.”]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Weinberger]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/davidweinberger/2026/07/30/americans-are-richer-than-ever-before-n2680348<![CDATA[The 250th birthday of the United States has been a time of celebration and reflection across the nation. It’s a moment to honor our proud history, our values, our freedoms, and the men and women in uniform who, across generations, have bravely fought to preserve them.]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Joey Comley]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/joey-comley/2026/07/30/americas-promise-to-veterans-shouldnt-end-behind-bars-n2680347<![CDATA[A dinner party shines a light on the empty-headed leadership set in the U.S.]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Alan Joseph Bauer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/07/30/know-nothing-and-proud-of-it-n2680323<![CDATA[We are born with an ego - from a baby's first cry to our death. Most can control their ego, protecting themselves and others from harm. Some give it free rein, causing the fallout to be substantial.]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Cal Thomas]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2026/07/30/the-fauci-diary-n2680320<![CDATA[Look, we keep being told—by pundits, pollsters, and a panoply of prognosticators—that the Republicans are absolutely doomed in November, that Trump is the lamest of ducks, that it’s all over, and that instead of voting, we should just stay at home in our double-wides being transphobes and hating&nbsp;The Odyssey&nbsp;because it has black people. And if you look at history—and we do look at history, because we know history didn’t begin in 1619—Republicans do have a problem. It’s a midterm election with a second-term president, or a third-term president, depending on whether you believe Joe Biden got 80 zillion votes in 2020, and the party in power typically gets its butt handed to it. The polls are all over the place, assessing the Republicans’ chances from “meh” to Nagasaki. The Senate GOP is busy putting the “nothing” in “do-nothing,” but there’s one shining glimmer of hope out there that the GOP may be able to pull victory from the jaws of defeat.]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kurt Schlichter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/07/30/the-democrats-are-the-republicans-secret-weapon-n2680305<![CDATA[It's time to go to war to stop teachers' unions from brainwashing our kids.]]>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Betsy McCaughey]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2026/07/29/teachers-union-brainwashing-n2680325