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Roger Kaplan

Roger Kaplan, a Washington-based writer, covers the Middle East and Africa (and tennis) for The American Spectator.
by | Jan 28, 2026

For a moment there, in the first round of the Australian Open, it looked like Venus Williams, at the age…

by | Dec 14, 2025

It was what they call a coup de theatre, a moment of absurdity worthy of a play by Claude Feydeau, the…

by | Nov 9, 2025

“We can roll them up and finish this in a day.” It was April of  2004 and a combined Marine-Army…

by | Oct 12, 2025

Donald Trump went where no one dared: he said, in effect: stop fighting and start talking, and if you haven’t…

by | Sep 7, 2025

President Donald Trump is expected to watch the men’s singles final of the U.S. Open, played at the Billie Jean…

by | Sep 2, 2025

I was overthinking the unseemly spat in a second-round singles match at the U.S. Open, wherein the loser, Jelena Ostapenko,…

by | Aug 30, 2025

Playing in a second-round match at the U.S. Open against Jelena Ostapenko, Taylor Townsend benefited from a bit of luck…

by | Jul 29, 2025

The number I like to play in head best when on the tennis court is the Ellington/Armstrong version of “It…

by | Jul 26, 2025

If you imagined Chopin’s Polish March in the backbrains of Taylor Townsend and Shuai Zhang as they held their defensive…

by | Jul 23, 2025

Venus Williams won her first professional tennis title in the last century. She was only 14. As that century turned…

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