Why Democrats shouldn’t celebrate the charges against Donald Trump
The indictment of former president Donald Trump as part of an investigation into hush money paid in 2016 to an ex porn…
Why using the military against Mexico’s cartels is catching on
“Slowly at first, then all at once” is the most famous line Ernest Hemingway never wrote, and credit its fame…
Mexico has become a failed narco-state
Over the past week, a security policy conversation that’s been taking place behind the scenes has emerged into the open.…
Can Trump’s unorthodox campaign break the mold again?
Just based on public behavior, you’d think Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis weren’t even interested in running for the same…
TikTok may be the real test of the China Select Committee
The primetime launch event for the House China Select Committee shows the bipartisan consensus that has formed in Washington on…
Thunderdome 2024: here come the Republican hopefuls
Over Presidents Day weekend, Donald J. Trump, our most beloved former president — according to him anyway — posted the…
Kamala Harris should run for Senate again in California
Here’s an idea that won’t happen but should: if Kamala Harris really wants to reset her political future — and…
A paean to the single cat lady
In recent years, Republican candidates and media figures have become increasingly critical of one portion of the population. At the…
A Republican presidential field with no Texans?
The biggest open secret in Texas politics is now public knowledge. For months, it’s been known that Ted Cruz will…
Congress’s Twitter hearings show Democrats are done with free speech
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, free speech was primarily defended by civil libertarians and the…
Biden’s State of the Union went quiet on China
Joe Biden’s meandering State of the Union left out a great many things, as his voice toggled between insincere whisper…
So we’re canceling AI for being transphobic now
With the dramatic expansion of artificial intelligence-generated text, the speed and frequency of the internet’s milkshake-ducking has become all the…
Trump forfeits his vaccine success to attack DeSantis
Why would a candidate for the presidency purposefully undermine his greatest achievement in government — one that required the movement…
Here’s how extreme Democrats have gone on abortion
A great deal of the conversation about abortion in America is based on lies about who occupies the more extreme…
Mike Gallagher’s China challenge
Twenty-five years ago, bipartisan American consensus about China was built on hope, spin and money. Despite the trauma of Tiananmen…
Prince Harry and Andrew Tate are two sides of the same coin
On the face of things, there is little in common between Prince Harry and Andrew Tate. Yet look closer and…
What has Kevin McCarthy won?
After Kevin McCarthy finally ascended to the heights of the speaker’s chair, it remains to be seen what he actually…
Who would be the Republican House Speaker now?
The clash that has led to the historic abnormality of a House of Representatives without a speaker is fascinating in…
Trump’s war on pro-lifers is a sign of desperation
Donald Trump just made his first significant political error of the 2024 nomination battle, and it’s a doozy. After being…
A Winston Churchill Christmas
On Christmas Eve 1941, in Washington on a diplomatic mission to organize the support of Britain’s American allies in the…
The Twitter Files communication breakdown
The gradual release of the Twitter Files is impressive in its scale and its revelations about the internal workings of…
Will Republicans learn from the midterms?
The 2022 midterm elections consumed more than 16.5 billion real American dollars. They featured thousands of candidates and the most…
One failed Republican autopsy was enough
The news that Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel is planning on conducting an “autopsy” of the 2022 election…
Mike Pompeo prepares for 2024
The race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination began in earnest on November 9, 2022 — and it could prove far…
Nancy Pelosi won’t go away
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that in the wake of Republicans taking the House, she’s doing exactly what the…
