How Trump captured his party
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
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
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
The next few weeks will be filled with remembrances, fulsome appreciations, and harsh criticism of Henry Alfred Kissinger, who died…
In the Eric Adams case, the FBI’s leaks and bias persist
Over the last couple of weeks, the FBI has been ramping up a corruption investigation of New York mayor Eric…
In praise of Mike Pence
Mike Pence was never likely to win the Republican nomination for president, and today he recognized the inevitable. He withdrew…
Biden failed on Iran
Did American failures contribute to Hamas’s war of terror – its unprovoked attack, its total surprise, its horrific butchering of…
Matt Gaetz pulls the fire alarm
Matt Gaetz pulled the alarm but, unlike the stunt by fellow House member Jamaal Bowman, there really was a fire.…
There were no clear winners after the second GOP debate
The worst job in America on Wednesday was trying to moderate the second Republican debate. With seven candidates on stage…
It’s time for President Biden to grant Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Secret Service protection
Presidential candidates don’t normally receive Secret Service protection until the summer before the election. But these are not normal times.…
An impeachment inquiry looms
The signals coming from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are that his Republican majority will soon launch a formal impeachment investigation.…
What if Biden backs out?
President Biden has declared he’s running for a second term, but it’s far from certain he actually will. His infirmity…
Joe Biden isn’t reactive enough to be president
At tragic moments, like the deadly fires in Hawaii, our nation expects the president to speak to all of us…
Hunter’s grift was really the whole family’s business
The Biden administration has repeatedly told the public that Hunter’s lucrative consulting business doesn’t matter unless it is directly connected…
Why NATO shouldn’t let Ukraine in just yet
Deciding whether Ukraine should eventually join NATO is hotly debated. There are good reasons to favor its inclusion, but not…
Are the walls closing in on ol’ Joe?
Confronted with devastating evidence of Biden family grifting, the president’s advocates are abandoning their old defenses and trying some new…
Was Joe Biden in on Hunter’s grift?
The Republicans investigating the Biden family grift had a big week, not that you would know it from reading the…
Can DeSantis clear the giant orange roadblock?
To win the Republican nomination, you have to knock out Donald Trump. That’s no easy task — polls currently show…
Even Donald Trump’s critics should be troubled by these charges
A New York grand jury has indicted former president Donald Trump over alleged ‘hush money’ payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult film…
Ron DeSantis is coming for Trump
Donald Trump faces legal jeopardy about payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, but his Republican opponents face political jeopardy about…
DeSantis sets Trump’s hair on fire
Donald Trump faces legal jeopardy about payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, but his Republican opponents face political jeopardy about…
Victimhood and mudslinging now define American politics
The 2024 campaign has hardly started, but the air is already filled with noxious fumes, most of it from desperate…
Putin’s inhumane war strategy is backfiring
The war in Ukraine changed fundamentally after Vladimir Putin failed to capture Kyiv and decapitate the regime there a year…
The ever-shifting excuses about Hunter Biden’s laptop
Hunter Biden’s defense about his incriminating laptop sounds like an old joke about a trial lawyer who was accused of…
The think tank implicated by Biden’s classified documents
Joe Biden has become the Typhoid Mary of classified documents, spreading them as he goes. They keep turning up in…
