Jim Antle, the magazine’s executive editor, brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis.
Antle gives his analysis of the magazine cover story, by Jeremy Lott, highlighting the big challenge that lies ahead for Trump and the GOP: inflation. Antle says Republicans are in big trouble if they don’t make affordability their key focus in 2026.
“We’ve already seen in the elections from late last year, how Democrats can use the affordability issue as a way of winning elections,” Antle said. “They were able to win the governorship in Virginia and New Jersey, and most striking of all, a socialist got elected mayor of New York City and made affordability his No. 1 issue in winning that election.”
Foreign Policy writer Sean Durns sat down with Antle to discuss his article on Israel’s reckoning with the futility of ‘land for peace.’ Antle asked where the future of the modern Middle East is headed.
“I think the problem is there’s a huge divide right now between what the West thinks it knows and what Israel actually knows and has learned it at tremendous cost,” Durns said. “Since the peace process kicked off three decades ago, the Palestinian leadership does not want peace. Thinking that they do has been a tremendous mistake for policymakers in the West, the United States, and elsewhere.”
This week’s in-depth report, written by Graham Hillard, details how 9 out of 10 college students believe the claim “words can be violence.” Hillard found the survey results, taken just one month after the killing of Charlie Kirk on a college campus, to be “harrowing.”
“In the aftermath of the Kirk shooting, the percentage of students confusing speech and violence ought to have been zero,” Hillard said. “Few would argue that 90% of college students are potential murderers or have anything like the courage of that depraved conviction. A safer bet is that, believing what they claim to think about speech, they are overwhelmingly going to vote for Democrats.”
Even more disturbing, 7% of students surveyed are in favor of employing murder as an acceptable use of violence “to stop a campus speech.” That figure theoretically represents almost 300,000 undergraduates nationwide.
“I have very strong doubts that any meaningful percentage of degree-seekers will one day take the lives of their political opponents,” Hillard said. “Yet the implication that they might like to do so is chilling.”
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