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-usSat, 11 Jul 2026 07:24:33 -0400<![CDATA[War in our time is not only about taking land or gaining decisive victories on the battlefield. Indeed, recent experience in Ukraine and the Persian Gulf shows just how hard that is. But nations and movements at war now employ information or cognitive war to undermine the confidence of targeted populations in their governments, their causes, and reality itself. Cognitive warfare also serves to isolate, stigmatize, and incite hatred against enemies. A notable example is the intense campaign on the Left and the Right to corrupt the meaning of the term genocide, particularly about Israel and, to a lesser degree, Azerbaijan. The United States has been and is targeted in campaigns of vilification by the Soviet Union, Russia, China, and radical Islamists.]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen J. Blank]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/stephen-j-blank/2026/07/11/the-narrative-wars-n2679160<![CDATA[When I was a high school sophomore, I had to take a course on Eastern Civilization. It was difficult terrain, to say the least, learning about various Chinese dynasties and the intricacies of Asian and Southeast Asian life over thousands of years. The teacher required that each student select and review one of the many books from the school library that had some connection to the broader topic of Eastern Civilization.]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jeff Davidson]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2026/07/11/is-ai-leading-to-a-dumbed-down-and-misled-populace-n2679163<![CDATA[We hear a lot about artificial intelligence devastating the filmmaking industry, and it’s true. But AI is also radically democratizing cinema, liberating creators from the dictatorial whims of Hollywood. I know this firsthand because I’ve produced full-length movies both the traditional way and, more recently, with AI.]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Michael Guillen]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelguillen/2026/07/11/a-filmmakers-journey-into-artificial-intelligence-n2679211<![CDATA[Not long ago, Japan stood before the world pledging to become a paragon of decarbonization. Government papers were filled with talk of hydrogen corridors, offshore wind farms, and electric vehicle subsidies.]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Vijay Jayaraj]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/vijayjayaraj/2026/07/11/japan-chooses-reliable-energy-over-climate-nonsense-n2679214<![CDATA[Back in April, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced it would leave the world’s largest oil cartel. As I explained in a previous column, this was a win for American consumers because it signaled the UAE was preparing to pump more oil. Right on cue, they produced a record 4.1 million barrels per day last month, which helped drive down US prices at the pump.]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[EJ Antoni, Ph.D.]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/ej-antoni/2026/07/11/opecs-grip-slips-on-production-and-prices-n2679215<![CDATA[During the Eastern heatwave in early July, I stumbled across an article on CNN entitled, “This heat wave would be ‘virtually impossible’ if not for fossil fuel pollution, study says.” (If you click on that, you’ll be redirected to a different article. I’ll tell you why in a moment.)]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Legates]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlegates/2026/07/11/if-all-you-have-is-a-wet-bulb-everything-looks-like-greenhouse-warming-n2679218<![CDATA[Restaurant customers stand to be collateral damage in an inter-industry struggle between restaurants and big tech.]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mario Lopez]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/mariolopez/2026/07/11/big-tech-vs-restaurants-n2679231<![CDATA[The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are collecting election victories across the Country. As they do, certain Establishment Democrats are distancing themselves from the DSA. However, the plain truth is that the DSA is a natural extension of the modern Democrat Party.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tom Del Beccaro]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/tomdelbeccaro/2026/07/10/10-reasons-the-dsa-isnt-the-fringe-its-the-democrats-heir-apparent-n2679086<![CDATA[For over 40 years, the international community has treated Lebanon as a place where fiction was preferable to fact. United Nations resolutions declared that armed militias would not operate south of the Litani River. UN peacekeepers patrolled the area. Diplomats issued reassuring statements after every crisis. Ambassadors wagged their fingers sternly at corrupt officials who bankrupted the country. Meanwhile, Hezbollah built one of the largest terrorist arsenals in the world within sight of observation posts manned by peacekeepers from the feckless UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).&nbsp;]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Bonnie Glick]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/bonnie-glick/2026/07/10/diplomacy-finally-caught-up-with-reality-in-lebanon-rubios-masterstroke-n2679116<![CDATA[Every has-been has to give his two cents on what Israel should do.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Alan Joseph Bauer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/07/10/rahmbo-n2679137<![CDATA[I spent years chairing the House Agriculture Committee listening to farmers explain the same frustration in a dozen different ways: they owned the equipment, but they didn't control it. They'd bought the machine outright, sunk their own capital into it, and still had to ask someone else's permission just to open the hood.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mike Conaway]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/repmikeconaway/2026/07/10/is-this-weeks-freedom-to-fix-agreement-trumps-biggest-pro-farmer-victory-yet-n2679138<![CDATA[On July 4, 2026, the Democratic Socialists of America announced it had surpassed 120,000 members, the largest socialist organization in American history, larger than Eugene Debs's Socialist Party at its 1912 peak. Pick your irony: a group built around collective ownership of the economy chose Independence Day to claim the mantle of America's biggest-ever socialist movement. The Tea Party picked the same holiday to explain itself back in 2009, dumping metaphorical tea into the harbor to protest a government that had stopped listening to the people who paid for it. Both movements changed their parties. Both claim the mantle of the ordinary American against a distant establishment. That's where the resemblance ends.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/07/10/judge-the-movement-not-the-mission-statement-n2679139<![CDATA[Two hundred and fifty years ago, men in powdered hair and knee breeches did what no colony had ever done successfully. They broke away from the most powerful empire on earth. They were not bloodthirsty radicals. They had petitioned again and again to remain loyal subjects of the Crown. They fought for what was already theirs.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Erick Erickson]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/erickerickson/2026/07/10/only-one-revolution-ended-in-liberty-n2679149<![CDATA[The Democrat Party has come a long way since Bill Clinton was president — and not in a good way.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Josh Hammer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2026/07/10/the-return-of-socialism-and-the-gops-golden-opportunity-n2679152<![CDATA[The "independent fact checkers" at PolitiFact did something truly shocking on July 2. They tagged a Democrat with their harshest judgment, "Pants On Fire." It's shocking because it's been almost two years since the last time they lit pants for a Democrat. On July 31, 2024, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was flagged for suggesting JD Vance had sex with a couch.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tim Graham]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/timgraham/2026/07/10/alert-the-media-politifact-located-a-lying-democrat-n2679155<![CDATA[Why does the extreme Left seem to have a stranglehold on today’s internet “fact-checking” industry?&nbsp;]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Brian Maloney]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/brianmaloney/2026/07/10/fact-checker-propublica-lefty-bias-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry-n2679157<![CDATA[It's beginning to be a habit. It, in this case, is the messy business of center-left political jettisoning one leader suddenly deemed unelectable and, without resort to the usual rules or democratic procedure, designating a replacement. It's the process that came fairly close to giving Americans President Kamala Harris in 2024.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Michael Barone]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2026/07/10/dropping-candidates-is-getting-to-be-a-habit-and-its-not-a-sign-of-strength-n2679162<![CDATA[The ACLJ has long recognized the critical importance—and value—of voting in America. With that understanding comes the calling to protect it. The ACLJ has fought for voter integrity and the sanctity of the vote for decades, going back to Bush v. Gore and as recently as representing the Colorado GOP all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court against lawfare attempting to block President Trump from appearing on the ballot, along with multiple other state GOPs facing similar challenges. We even represented the Green Party of Nevada when it faced lawfare aimed at keeping its candidate off the ballot. We routinely monitor and file briefs in election law cases.]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jordan Sekulow]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jordan-sekulow/2026/07/10/aclj-sues-maryland-town-over-noncitizen-voter-registry-n2679168<![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani, New York's self-described socialist mayor, could not resist using the nation's 250th anniversary celebration to trash the very country that he and his parents voluntarily sought out.]]>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:45:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victor Davis Hanson]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2026/07/09/mamdanis-embittered-fourth-of-july-rant-to-america-n2679134<![CDATA[I knew she was right. I knew I was right. And I never had any doubt.]]>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:10:00 -0400<![CDATA[Kevin McCullough]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2026/07/09/the-price-of-saying-what-was-true-n2679127