https://hotair.com/archive/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary on politics, media, culture, and current events.en-usSun, 18 Oct 2026 06:09:01 -0400<![CDATA[A study falsely implied the Amish suffered more deaths because they eschewed public health guidance. But correcting the record proved nearly impossible.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/how-a-flawed-covid-study-triedand-failedto-discredit-the-amish-n3820003<![CDATA[I've got a website, I've been tabbing under my skin, my heart is Firefox, my X feed's boiling, my platform IBM ...]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:00:24 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/10/17/saturdays-final-word-n3820045<![CDATA[Six months after Frank Sinatra’s death, a little book on his career was published. Why Sinatra Matters&nbsp;was an insightful account of a career intersecting a culture. It was written by journalist and author Pete Hamill, once called New York newspapers’ “columnist-poet.” If the 59-year-long legacy of the singer from Hoboken mattered to you, you’d probably enjoy this book.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/why-the-republic-matters-n3820002<![CDATA[When Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin publicly condemned New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for shielding roughly 15,000 criminal migrants from deportation, he was not engaging in partisan theater. He was naming a substantive failure of governance that is affecting communities across the country.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/mamdanis-sanctuary-house-of-cards-will-collapse-n3820001<![CDATA[Reading the news from American colleges and universities, professors at these leftist indoctrination centers are inclined to make America sound less like a nation than a crime scene.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/native-american-warriors-shatter-academias-colonialism-narrative-n3820042<![CDATA[DHS claimed this week that New York has refused to honor more than 16,000 ICE detainers asking the Empire State to turn criminal aliens in its custody over to the agency for removal since the start of the second Trump administration. Tune out claims that Trump II is snatching up “otherwise law-abiding” aliens: the logical reason for this “sanctuary” intransigence is that, traditionally, the vast majority of ICE interior arrests have been “custodial” ones, from jails, detention facilities, and prisons — except, ironically, under the Biden administration. So, New York politicos who don’t think anyone should be deported, even public safety threats, are keeping ICE officers out of their prisons and jails. Here are the facts.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/why-new-york-wont-honor-ice-detainers-for-criminal-aliens-n3820000<![CDATA[The Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is supposed to help federal judges understand scientific evidence and methodologies. Judges increasingly confront complex scientific questions and need reliable tools to evaluate expert testimony. The reference manual is one such tool—or at least most of it is.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/courts-need-to-remove-climate-activist-thumb-from-the-scales-of-justice-n3819999<![CDATA[The plot thickens, as they say.&nbsp;]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:30:29 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/10/17/report-musk-suggested-cutting-ukraines-starshield-access-n3820063<![CDATA[My recent USA Today column discusses how the Democrats have suddenly discovered God in elections after recruiting various far-left ministers to run on faith-based anti-Trump messages. I discussed how Divinity Schools have shown the same trend as other departments in higher education with a radical shift to the left. That was evident in a controversy this week at Point Loma Nazarene University, where Dean of Students Jason Cha told student leaders that identifying as being “in Christ alone” is a sign of “white privilege.”]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/woke-dean-of-students-warns-saying-in-christ-alone-constitutes-white-privilege-n3819998<![CDATA[Archaeologists have uncovered a 4000-year-old structure that is laid out in a way strongly reminiscent of Stonehenge. Though the sanctuary lacks the big stones that Stonehenge boasts, it’s made up of ditches and burial mounds that resemble its British counterpart.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/the-netherlands-has-its-own-stonehenge-n3819997<![CDATA[France has been experiencing a rolling political crisis for several years, but based on media coverage, you would hardly know anything beyond the fact that some high school students are unhappy with large class sizes and run-down schools.&nbsp;]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:30:46 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/10/17/the-left-migrants-and-radical-students-burning-down-france-in-widespread-riots-n3820062<![CDATA[Another year, another temporary funding extension to keep the government running. Unfortunately, this is nothing new. However, at $400 million to $1.7 billion in lost buying power per day, the consequences are.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/even-by-recent-standards-this-years-continuing-resolution-is-a-disaster-n3819996<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; WYTHEVILLE, Virginia -- Most people meet this town zooming past it at 70 mph.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Salena Zito]]>https://hotair.com/salena-zito/2026/10/17/take-the-wilderness-road-and-youll-find-the-appalachian-first-lady-who-fooled-washington-n3820029<![CDATA[When U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent launched Operation Economic Outcast against Iran, he&nbsp;promised to target its “enablers” and “sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.” Washington has since sanctioned everything from foreign banks to Iranian airlines. Yet it has spared one of the most prominent institutions ever accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions: Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank. This Iranian lifeline, too, must be severed.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/to-squeeze-iran-washington-must-go-after-halkbank-n3819995<![CDATA[I really am—honest—trying to write a rather long and complicated book and don’t have time for things like this. But when one’s good name is impugned, sometimes thumos (to coin a phrase) gets the better of one.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/james-lindsays-fever-dream-n3819994<![CDATA[Minnesotans may well choose woke fraudsters again over competent governance. They cannot pretend they didn't have better options, however.&nbsp;]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:00:43 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/10/17/sell-it-to-someone-else-tafoya-blows-flanagan-apart-over-massive-fraud-n3820061<![CDATA[Elevated gas prices and competitive races in red-leaning states like South Carolina, Kansas, Texas, and Nebraska have made for a tough midterm environment for Republicans. However, the grim headlines for Republicans overlook how thin the margins are in most toss-up races, leaving the GOP a real path to keeping the Senate.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/dont-count-gop-out-of-midterms-yet-n3819993<![CDATA[On Sunday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker asked Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed if he would “set the record straight” on&nbsp;his alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/why-a-senate-win-for-abdul-el-sayed-has-capitol-hill-running-scared-n3819992<![CDATA[Nearly every week, another psychodrama arises between the United States and its NATO partners.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/10/17/the-same-old-same-old-european-runaround-n3819991<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Imagine getting a bill from your local government for $900,000 because they see a greenhouse on your property and just assume you're growing marijuana without a permit.]]>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[John Stossel]]>https://hotair.com/john-stossel/2026/10/17/not-fine-at-all-n3820027