Charles Lipson

Joe Biden delivers his own eulogy

25 July 2024 5:50 pm

Joe Biden delivered a eulogy for his presidency and his political career from the Oval Office Wednesday evening. It was…

Biden withdraws from the 2024 race

22 July 2024 5:00 am

After weeks of pressure from Democratic party insiders, Joe Biden has finally said he won’t seek re-election. ‘I have decided…

The logic of the J.D. Vance selection

19 July 2024 5:38 am

The best way to understand Donald Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance for vice president is to ask how different choices…

Joe Biden, naked emperor

19 July 2024 3:55 am

Sometimes, a fairytale provides the best description of a real-world crisis. That’s true of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. The…

The political impact of the Trump assassination attempt 

15 July 2024 3:47 pm

The conventional wisdom is that the race for the presidency fundamentally changed with the assassination attempt on former president Donald…

The Democrats caught between the dog and the hydrant 

11 July 2024 10:57 pm

The Democrats are not just caught between one dog and one hydrant. They are caught between three — and the water…

Joe Biden’s interview with George Stephanopoulos could have been worse

6 July 2024 2:41 pm

Joe Biden didn’t make any major mistakes in his Friday interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. That’s the best you can…

Slowly, then suddenly: the sad story of Joe Biden’s decline 

3 July 2024 8:00 am

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” Those were Hemingway’s words in…

If Joe stays in…

1 July 2024 7:54 pm

After Thursday’s fiasco in Atlanta, Joe Biden faces two hard choices. The hardest — and grimmest — is whether to…

Presidential debate: Joe Biden was painful to watch

28 June 2024 4:42 pm

These weren’t the Lincoln-Douglas debates. They weren’t Kennedy-Nixon. If those were graded ‘A’, then this was ‘C-minus’, at best. Both…

Turbulence after the Trump verdict

14 June 2024 6:36 pm

We live in tumultuous times. Donald Trump’s adversaries blame much of it on him — his hyperbole and personal attacks,…

Biden acts on the border… sort of… maybe

5 June 2024 5:53 am

The contrast between the two parties on illegal immigration couldn’t be sharper. Donald Trump erected a wall. Joe Biden erected…

What will Americans make of Trump’s guilty verdict?

31 May 2024 6:02 pm

The indictment and trial on a thin charge, the gagging of a presidential candidate in the middle of a campaign,…

Biden’s pause of weapons shipments to Israel is another misstep

6 May 2024 7:38 pm

President Biden just made a strong move against Israel, ordering the US government to stop shipping weapons supplies to the…

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s strategery

3 May 2024 7:53 pm

Dumb is dumb. Among the dumbest is a political strategy that harms your own side and infuriates your normal allies,…

An explanation of the campus protests

3 May 2024 12:04 am

A friend wrote me to ask, “Why is this mess happening on campus?” Here is my response. Let me offer…

The Biden White House’s Beltway elitism shows on Easter

2 April 2024 9:19 am

Among the many political advantages of the presidency, surely one is the ability to extend warm wishes to Christians, Jews…

The race for the White House is about to get much dirtier

6 March 2024 6:08 pm

Super Tuesday is over and so is the primary season. Although some states have not voted yet and a few…

Why Trump won South Carolina

25 February 2024 1:23 pm

Elvis has left the building. So has Trump, and he left victorious. The “primary show” will have a few encores,…

The stalemate on illegal immigration

12 February 2024 1:15 am

Few moments are less promising to reach a bipartisan deal than the months before a presidential election. And few issues…

Both parties are fumbling the border debate

29 January 2024 2:31 pm

Given just how unpopular illegal immigration is, it is stunning to see both the likely nominees for president fumbling the…

How Trump captured his party

19 January 2024 7:14 am

Vintage news outlets, with lots of time to kill and space to fill, are desperately trying to say the Republican…

Claudine Gay may be gone, but the issues on campus remain

5 January 2024 3:55 am

Claudine, we hardly knew ye. Gay’s tenure atop Harvard was the shortest in that university’s history. Yet it was still…

Hunter’s latest indictment is bad news for Joe Biden

8 December 2023 6:19 pm

Surprise! Surprise! Hunter Biden faced new charges on Thursday, after the Department of Justice accused him of failing to pay…

The remarkable life of Henry Kissinger

30 November 2023 5:48 pm

The next few weeks will be filled with remembrances, fulsome appreciations, and harsh criticism of Henry Alfred Kissinger, who died…