S.E. Cupp stories, Page 3

“That government is best which governs least.” That famous aphorism delightfully — and somewhat snarkily — illuminates what animated the Founders to form a democratic republic and break with the oppressive rule of the monarchy. Practically since the day America was born, there’s been a national debate over government’s role....

In cable news, we practice the persuasive arts — and I’ll be the first to admit that we commentators have a penchant for hyperbole and a tendency to overstate. We especially like to do that with local and midterm elections like New York’s congressional special election. “What does it mean?”...

“When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall.” The fall of the Roman Empire, aside from pre-occupying the minds of all modern American men evidently, is a cautionary tale for every advanced society, including ours. That may sound alarmist, but trust me — our Coliseum is already crumbling. One need only...

By now you’ve probably heard the shocking news: Taylor Swift, the billionaire mega-celebrity pop star, is actually a Pentagon psyop, or psychological operation, whose ultimate mission is to get President Biden reelected. Now that the singer’s beau Travis Kelce and his Kansas City Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl,...

I honestly hadn’t thought about the image in a very long time, mercifully. It’s been 12 years since it first hit the internet, and I’m happy to say I — and everyone else — have moved on. But I was 33 years old when Hustler, the Larry Flynt smut rag,...

Anyone watching the Iowa caucuses results pour in Monday night could see very quickly that former President Donald Trump was going to walk away with a decisive victory. He won 98 of 99 counties, and was denied the 99th by only one vote. More than one cable news network called...

“I have a daughter in Brooklyn! Get the **** out of the way!” The exasperated driver, whose identity is as of yet unknown, had to finally get out of his car in Manhattan and scream at a group of more than 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters who decided this week that the...

With less than two weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, the 2024 presidential election just shot into high gear. Former President Donald Trump still overwhelmingly leads the Republican pack, despite the fact that he’s facing more than 90 criminal charges and four different indictments and may, at some point,...

Another year is closing, and with it comes some renewed optimism for a fresh start and some relief that we are leaving some sore spots behind. 2023 wasn’t an easy year for many of us. It was marked by war — in Ukraine and later in Gaza. With Hamas’ barbaric...

The year was 1980. The place was Cleveland’s Music Hall. The event was must-see TV. It was the second presidential debate, featuring Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, and it birthed a number of memorable moments. There was Reagan’s chiding line, “There you go again.” And his pointed question about Carter’s...

Perhaps “Nikki-mentum” is too clumsy. And maybe “Haley’s comet” is too cute. But however you want to put it, there’s no denying Nikki Haley is having a great month. Despite a brief mid-month hiccup — where Haley offered up an ill-conceived and backlash-inviting social media ban on anonymity — the...

In San Francisco federal court on Tuesday, David DePape tearfully told a jury how he’d become radicalized by far-right conspiracy theories he’d devoured on YouTube podcasts. He’d listen all day, he said, ultimately coming to believe in the kind of baseless political quackery that’s come to define a wing of...

On Tuesday night, voters in a handful of important states gave us a crucial temperature check on the state of the union leading up to the 2024 presidential election — and it’s not good news for Republicans. In Virginia, the very popular Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin was hoping his party...

The headlines paint a troubling picture. “Liberals Need a Reckoning With Antisemitism.” “How the Democrats betrayed the Jews.” “The Left Faces a Reckoning as Israel Divides Democrats.” The conflict between Israel and Hamas, a terrorist group that barbarically murdered 1,400 innocent civilians in a surprise and coordinated attack on Israel,...

As I write this column, it has been more than two weeks, and the House of Representatives still doesn’t have a speaker. Even in times of peace and stability, this would be a troubling development inside a political body meant to, you know, solve problems. But these aren’t times of...

“Hi y’all,” began the letter to other NYU students. Considering the topic, it was an odd and somewhat jarring salutation — cheerful, informal, chillingly indifferent. But the letter would soon turn from merely odd to downright grotesque. “Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life,” Ryna Workman, who...

“Bring it on.” “Just did.” These aren’t lines from a cheesy teen flick. They’re what two members of the United States House of Representatives said to each other before embarking on one of the dumbest, most self-destructive and utterly embarrassing kamikaze missions in modern American politics. On Tuesday, after threatening...

The heartfelt eulogies poured in from both sides of the aisle after Utah Sen. Mitt Romney announced he would not seek reelection in 2024. Democrats and Republicans alike agreed that the Senate, the Republican Party and indeed the country are losing a good man, a decent man, one of the...

This week, spineless House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, in fear of being ousted from his precious leadership position by far-right hostage-takers like Florida’s Rep. Matt Gaetz and Georgia’s Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, caved to pressure to mount an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden — based on little more than conjecture,...

Most Americans will never serve on a jury — in fact most won’t even be summoned. The National Center for State Courts estimates that in any year, only about .09% of the population is called for jury duty, and yet somehow most New Yorkers will tell you they’ve gone at...

Obnoxious. Annoying. Disrespectful. Inexperienced. Conspiratorial. Those are just a few of the adjectives one could use to describe Republican upstart Vivek Ramaswamy at the first GOP debate of the 2024 presidential election. It didn’t take long for the relatively unknown businessman-turned-candidate to make his presence known, earning applause and cheers...

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” Donald Trump has made a good living as a traveling salesman, hawking everything from skyscrapers to deodorant. But his best- selling product has always been himself. Nothing — not his cheap made-in-China ties, not his thousand-dollar steaks, not his Trump Ice Natural...

“As Ohio goes, so goes the nation.” That old chestnut has proven true in modern American elections more times than not. Since 1964, Ohio has chosen the winning president in every contest, whether Democrat or Republican — that is, except one. In 2020, Ohio voted for Donald Trump over Joe...

It was the middle of August 2015, and comedian Sarah Silverman was rallying her Twitter followers to join her at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena for a special event. For decades, the now-gone arena had hosted numerous sports teams — it was the home of the Los Angeles Lakers...

A new and damning audio recording, aired first on CNN, is shocking to say the least. In it, former President Donald Trump is being interviewed by a writer for a memoir of Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff. Like taking candy from a baby, we can hear while the...