Down Hill for Hillary Clinton
If Hillary Clinton weren’t inevitable, one might begin to wonder if she’s really going to be the next president. A new Quinnipiac poll finds Mrs. Clinton “in trouble” in three swing states: Colorado,...
View Article'Bidenmania'
Hillary Clinton’s recent poll troubles have “led to another bout of a contagious pundit malady,” observes David Weigel, who recently rejoined the Washington Post. “That would be Bidenmania.” Not to be...
View ArticleFactitious 'Fact Checking'
It will surprise no one to learn that former Enron adviser Paul Krugman is unfavorably disposed toward the Republicans seeking the presidency. In a New York Times column after last week’s debate, he...
View ArticleThe Political Class, Trump and the Majority of Americans
The Onion “reports” that “increasingly nervous local man Aaron Howe responded to Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. Monday by once again stating this would be the end of the...
View ArticlePost-Bush Republicans
Last night’s Republican debate, which was almost completely given over to foreign policy and especially terrorism, reminded us of George W. Bush’s Second Inaugural Address, in 2005—specifically this...
View ArticleDavid Brooks Borks Cruz
Yesterday we had a mischievous thought: What if Donald Trump, on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, were to announce (or merely suggest) that if elected, he would nominate Ted Cruz to the next vacancy on...
View ArticleCan Junk Political Science Sink Trump?
When last we met David Brooks, he was undertaking a one-man smear campaign against Ted Cruz based on a misleading account of a case Cruz argued as Texas’ solicitor general. Now Brooks is asking for...
View ArticleTrump's Secret Weapon: Inclusiveness
Trump is neither evangelical nor poorly educated. He is a mainline Protestant (Presbyterian), and by outward appearances not an especially pious one; a sybaritic billionaire from New York who holds a...
View ArticleYou May Already Have Lost
“If Republicans had fielded a strong presidential nominee this year, who managed to win a winnable election, the party’s success would have been more comprehensive than any since 1980,” writes Michael...
View ArticleUpset in Indiana: A Timely Reminder of Clinton's Weakness
“Bernie Sanders Declares War on Reality,” declared the headline of a Monday column by the Boston Globe’s Michael Cohen: Instead of coming to grips with the overwhelming evidence that Democratic primary...
View ArticleTrump, Clinton and the Bill Cosby Problem
No doubt it was just a Freudian slip. The Washington Free Beacon reports: MSNBC host Steve Kornacki confused former President Bill Clinton and Bill Cosby on Tuesday while talking about Cosby’s...
View ArticleBenghazi Without the Shame
It’s a leap year, which means it’s even more important than usual for the Obama administration to deny the threat of Islamic terrorism.
View ArticleUnthinkability Bias: The Hazards of 2016 Groupthink
Trump, Brexit and the hazards of groupthink.
View ArticleObamacare: Still Crazy After All These Years
Five weeks before the presidential election, a campaign surrogate is declaring war on ObamaCare, as the Washington Times reports.
View ArticleMeltdown: Republican Leaders at Odds With Their Voters
The party’s leaders are at odds with its voters.
View ArticleDissonance by the Sea
Al Gore acknowledged defeat in the 2000 presidential election 16 years ago today.
View ArticleFinale: Thoughts on Journalism, Authority and the Trump Era
Parting thoughts on journalism, authority and the Trump era.
View ArticleDivided America Stands--Then, and Now
If there’s one thing Americans of all political stripes can agree on, it’s that the country is divided—bitterly, dangerously, perhaps irreconcilably riven.
View ArticleThe Truth About Clarence Thomas' Disclosures
He reported carefully on his inherited real estate. ProPublica''.ord('Ã').';'''.ord('¢').';'''.ord('Â').';'''.ord('').';'''.ord('Â').';'''.ord('').';'s reporting was slipshod and incurious.
View ArticleJustice Alito: 'This Made Us Targets of Assassination'
The author of the Dobbs abortion ruling answers attacks on the court's 'legitimacy.' He''.ord('Ã').';'''.ord('').';' says he thinks he knows who leaked the draft and is certain about the motive.
View ArticleAlito, the Supreme Court's Plain-Spoken Defender
He has emerged as an important justice with a distinctive interpretive method that is pragmatic yet rooted in originalism and textualism.
View ArticleClarence Thomas Discloses, the Media Opposes
The justice's 2022 filing confirms the Journal's debunking of ProPublica's botched April story.
View ArticleJustice Alito's First Amendment
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View ArticleThe Harvard of the Unwoke
University of Florida President Ben Sasse has a theory of how higher ed succumbed to execrable ideas''.ord('Ã').';'''.ord('¢').';'''.ord('Â').';'''.ord('').';'''.ord('Â').';'''.ord('').';'and...
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