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Front porch campaigns were once a common feature of American presidential politics, though the term wasn't always applied to the practice.
Last week there was a sharp uptick in speculation that President Trump is a few fries shy of a Happy Meal.
Here's a crazy idea: Maybe the forces of liberty will win.
Anyone who's watched a courtroom TV drama has heard the phrase "Hard cases make bad law." It's a legal maxim that says really extreme — i.e., rare or weird — cases are not only hard to generalize from, they're also a bad foundation for new legislation or policy.
Consider the possibility that the things we worry about the most might be the least of our problems.
Both the right and the left have very similar solutions in mind.
Whatever happened to Barack Obama?
The impeachment show needs to be suspended and sent back for major rewrites — or, better yet, canceled entirely.
I want to put in a good word for partisanship.
Many of President Trump's most passionate fans and foes share an odd tendency: Both groups believe his most controversial actions are premeditated and reflective of deeply held beliefs.
Did you hear about the backlash against Disney for casting Halle Bailey, a young black woman, for the lead in the live-action version of "The Little Mermaid"?
Paul Ryan is getting the hate treatment — again.
Conservatives talk a lot about how we don't like identity politics. But it's not always clear what people mean by it. Academics and intellectuals tend to mean one thing, while politicians and activists often have something slightly different in mind.
Increasingly, the intellectual consensus seems to be that our political leanings are hardwired in our genes. There is some excellent research behind this thinking, and I've come around to believing that DNA plays a bigger role in our political worldviews than many on the right or left are willing to accept.
Nike is doing it wrong. I don't mean the shoemaking, though that thing with Zion Williamson was pretty bad, I have to say. No, Nike is doing it wrong because it managed to do something that all the neo-Nazis, Klansmen, alt-righters and other denizens of the lowest coprophagic phylum of our political life could never do: It turned the Betsy Ross flag into a racist symbol.
The consensus view on the right is that Hillary Clinton was a primary reason for Donald Trump's success in 2016. But not all conservatives agree about why that was.
Given the recent fight over whether U.S. refugee detention centers are in fact "concentration camps," the Trump administration might want to borrow a page from the Chinese and simply call them "vocational skills education training centers." That way, no one would really care at all.
When Vice President Mike Pence was the governor of Indiana, he got along well with the mayor of South Bend, Pete Buttigieg, despite the fact that Buttigieg is a gay, liberal Democrat and Pence is a straight, socially conservative Republican.
"What's your pitch to the swing voter on the fence?" ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked President Trump in an interview that aired Sunday.
In comic books, a key to a compelling superpower is its limitations. Magneto can manipulate metal but only metal. Superman has problems with magic, red suns and kryptonite. The limitations drive the drama.
