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Debra J. Saunders

Debra J. Saunders is a fellow at the Discovery Institute's Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership. Contact her at dsaunders@discovery.org.
by | Jun 10, 2025

WASHINGTON — The script for how big media outlets cover left-wing riots never changes. Progressive protests destroy blue cities. Then, cable news anchors inform viewers that the protests that have brought chaos and destruction started out peacefully. Yes, there is…

by | Jun 6, 2025

WASHINGTON — The International Criminal Court is so anti-American and anti-Israel that I cheered when Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sanctions against four of its judges Thursday for “transgressions against the United States and Israel.” The sanctions, which could…

by | May 28, 2025

WASHINGTON — The status quo came tumbling down at Harvard after Hamas massacred 1,200 innocents on Oct. 7, 2023. As much of the world was revolted at the gratuitous slaughter, the swells at Harvard were working on a suitable statement….

by | May 23, 2025

WASHINGTON — Almost everything the Democrats and big media told the country about the vaunted character of former President Joe Biden is collapsing. Biden framed his run for the White House in 2020 as “a fight for the soul of…

by | May 20, 2025

WASHINGTON — I’ve often railed at Democrats’ failure to revamp federal immigration law during the two years President Joe Biden enjoyed a Democratic Senate and House. When they had the chance, they squandered it. Now it’s the Republicans’ turn at…

by | May 15, 2025

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump started the first major international travel of his second term in Riyadh, where he publicly bonded with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Pundits call the crown prince, the nation’s de facto leader, MBS. Trump…

by | May 5, 2025

WASHINGTON — I’ve been having flashbacks about Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who killed three innocent people and wounded 23 during a 17-year killing spree. In 1998, Kaczynski pleaded guilty and agreed to a sentence of life without parole. He killed himself…

by | May 2, 2025

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this bombshell during Wednesday’s White House Cabinet meeting: “We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans.” Rubio offered that he is surprised a federal…

by | Apr 26, 2025

Bryan Riley is not a fan of President Donald Trump’s tariffs — and that’s painful for him. “I want him to succeed,” Riley told me. “I work at the National Taxpayers Union.” The NTU is hardly an anti-Trump institution. But…

by | Apr 23, 2025

WASHINGTON — Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the rope in the tug-of-war between the Trump administration and progressive Democrats who don’t really want to see Washington enforce federal immigration law. (RELATED: Five Quick Things: The Hill They’ve Died On)…

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