The American media is failing you
American journalism has lost its bearings, and we are all paying the price. For the past four years, egged on…
Morning in America or mourning in America?
In the countdown to Election Day, the two campaigns are taking starkly different approaches. Joe Biden is sitting on a…
A serious debate that leaves Biden with lingering bruises
Thursday night’s debate was far calmer and more substantive than the street brawl that preceded it. If we score it…
Behind the social-media blackout of Biden family corruption
Hunter Biden is now the subject of multiple stories involving serious corruption. Whether he committed any crimes is a question…
Team Biden will be delighted with the debate
The first presidential debate is the most important — and Joe Biden won it. These contests should be understood —…
Who rules supreme in America?
Within hours of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Democrats and Republicans began fighting over how to fill her…
What Bahrain’s deal with Israel really means
On September 15, representatives from the oil-rich Kingdom of Bahrain will meet Israeli leaders at the White House to sign…
Nancy Pelosi’s bad hair day
Does Nancy Pelosi’s unfortunate trip to a hair salon have any news value? Or is it much a hairdo about…
Nine lessons from the Republican and Democrat conventions
What’s the bottom line so far? The Democrats think they will win by making the race a referendum on Donald…
Joe Biden offers platitudes, not policies
Joe Biden’s speech was effective in many ways and sure to please his supporters. But anyone who expected him to…
Can Biden avoid the debates?
In an opinion column for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman proposes that Joe Biden debate Donald Trump only if…
Rod Rosenstein’s devastating admissions
Rod Rosenstein’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was quiet, calm, almost bemused. But the tale he told was devastating…
Why did Amy Klobuchar drop out?
Minnesota Nice Wasn’t Enough. Neither were Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s center-left positions and bland presentations. And so, today, she left the…
Elizabeth Warren’s trail of tears
Elizabeth Warren will soon be gone, a victim of her faux personality, her failure at identity politics, her badgering, eat-your-spinach…
Why the Iowa voting fiasco matters
The Monday night caucuses were the biggest moment in four years for Iowa Democratic Party. They screwed it up beyond…
The Democrats’ dirty secret? They don’t want witnesses
The Senate leaders have stated their positions clearly and constantly. Chuck Schumer, who leads the Democratic minority, is demanding that…
The Senate impeachment trial is all about November
The single most important thing to understand about the Senate impeachment trial is that it is all for show, meant…
Pelosi’s impeachment delay is an unforced error
One of our perennial school pranks was to place a whoopee cushion secretly on the chair of an unsuspecting teacher.…
The Founding Fathers’ focus group on impeachment, 1787
We recently learned that House Democrats are concentrating their impeachment drive on ‘bribery’ because focus groups liked it better than…
The Democrats’ bad start to the impeachment hearings
The first day of public impeachment hearings was good for Republicans and mediocre, at best, for Democrats. That’s far short…
The age of invective
A healthy democracy requires free speech and free assembly, tolerance for different views, and peaceful transfers of power among contending parties. It requires…
What Pelosi really wants from impeachment
The most important thing to know about Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is this: it is not about removing President Trump now; it…
The question isn’t if Joe Biden will screw up: it’s when
Joe Biden seems on the verge of announcing he will run for president. He begins in a strong position, leading…
