Can Kamala Harris escape the ‘Hubert Humphrey problem’?
When the sitting president is not running for reelection, the party typically turns to his vice president as the “natural”…
Vance vs Walz was what a debate should look like
The most important takeaway from the vice-presidential debate between Senator J.D. Vance and Governor Tim Walz is that this is…
What if the Electoral College vote is tied?
America has a peculiar — indeed, unique — way of deciding national elections. Instead of a cumulative national vote, the…
How Donald Trump lost the debate
If Kamala Harris is elected president – and that’s a big ‘if’ since the race is still tight – she won it…
How to score the Trump-Harris debate
This Tuesday’s debate is the most consequential moment of the “second” campaign, just as Trump’s debate with Biden was the…
Two successive 2024 campaigns in a very strange election year
This is one very strange presidential campaign. That’s not just because it seems to go on forever. This one seemed…
A glitchy X/Twitter conversation between Donald Trump and Elon Musk
The great Dr. Johnson was once asked what he thought about John Milton’s famous work, Paradise Lost. His reply, “None…
Kamala Harris and that new car smell
If you felt the ground shaking, it was Democrats jumping for joy after dumping Joe Biden and settling on a…
How Trump and Kamala can have a good debate
On Thursday, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris agreed to debate September 10 on ABC. That’s good news for voters. They…
Joe Biden delivers his own eulogy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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…
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
A friend wrote me to ask, “Why is this mess happening on campus?” Here is my response. Let me offer…
