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When President Trump shut down the government in an attempt to force Congress to fund a border wall, Democrats and liberal journalists — including many mainstream reporters — responded by insisting there was no crisis.
Imagine there's a movie about a meteor heading toward earth. It will be here in 12 years. Following Hollywood convention, once you got past the part where the maverick scientist or precocious kid discovering it struggles to convince the world about the threat, you'd expect the president or the military to leap into action.
The story is not over. It may never be over in our lifetimes. But an important chapter has come to an end, and it had a happy ending for the president.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has reignited the debate over the Electoral College — she wants to get rid of it, naturally. I say "reignited" because this is a very old argument.
Robert "Beto" O'Rourke's biggest fans and supporters insist he is a forward-thinking, future-oriented visionary, but no contender for the Democratic nomination feels more familiar than the former three-term congressman from El Paso.
The college admissions scandal should be the populist issue of our time.
The Democratic Party is having a rough time condemning anti-Semitism. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has, on several occasions, made classically anti-Semitic claims about American Jews, and the effort to formally denounce those statements in the House ruined a week in which the Democrats were supposed to talk about their agenda.
Two years ago, at the dawn of the Trump administration, Kellyanne Conway predicted that 2017's CPAC would really be TPAC, or "Trump Pac." What was premature spin then is conventional wisdom now.
A couple of years ago, opponents of Donald Trump's presidential bid warned that a Trump presidency would be a crazy spectacle. Jeb Bush famously said that Trump was a chaos candidate who would be a chaos president.
Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," a play in which two men sit around and wait for someone who never shows up, has been claimed by just about everyone: Freudians, Christians, existentialists.
I'm old enough to remember a time when an independent secular Jewish socialist with a long record of support for communist regimes would be considered a force for diversity in a typical field of Democratic candidates.
The president's decision to declare a national emergency at the southern border was an act of weakness, not strength.
When the government hugs big business, big business hugs back, and its embrace leaves the rest of us in the cold. The Amazon deal wasn't the opposite of what AOC wants; it was a trial run.
Donald Trump can't win in 2020 but the Democrats can lose, and they seem determined to give it their best shot.
On Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced what many news outlets described as "legislation" for the Green New Deal, a wildly ambitious plan to eliminate the American fossil fuel industry within a decade or so. It's worth noting that it's not legislation as people normally understand the term.
Noah Rothman, a brilliant young writer and editor at Commentary Magazine, has just published his first book, and it's about nonsense.
What bothers me about these abortion controversies is the way utilitarian arguments are given the presumption of moral superiority.
There are those who believe that the president came out the winner in the standoff over the government shutdown. They are what political scientists call very wrong.
As the partial government shutdown stretches into its second month, a new Fox News poll finds that 51 percent of respondents blame the president, 34 percent blame the Democrats, 9 percent say everyone involved is to blame.
It's getting to the point where it'll be easier to list the Democrats who are not running for president in 2020. But the roster on the Republican side remains a minority of one.
