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From time to time, we hear predictions from politicians, both populist and conventional, that their side will govern for the next generation. That seldom happens...
“In relative terms, America is still Number One by any measure except maybe the number of robots.”
Republicans seem to be getting in the habit of nominating candidates suited to local terrain and emphasizing issues tailored to their states.
If Republicans’ weakness is the self-indulgence of a second-term president, Democrats’ weakness is their propensity to embrace the wildest and least popular impulses of their political left.
It no longer makes sense for Germany to cordon off the AfD, as if it were bent on sending migrants to the gas chambers.
Decent societies cannot afford to ignore upsurges of speech suppression, antisemitism and organized violence.
There are numerous signs that the nation is putting Woke 1 so far in the rearview mirror as to be invisible.
Alexander Vindman lost the Democratic primary by a 56% to 44% margin to Angie Nixon, who raised only $974,000.
There’s a large segment of the Democratic party that is “charged up and ready to go,” in Barack Obama’s phrase.
In the 38 years since 1988, politicians of both parties have pumped huge sums into higher education.
Virtually no attention has been paid to the period in U.S. history when the government took maximum control of the private-sector economy.
While imposing damage on Russia, Ukraine’s drones have created a killing zone into which Russian troops can’t venture.
He was open, even brash, about his views on issues while working with others who disagreed.
Ditching unpopular leaders sometimes helps, but not so much if it gets to be a habit.
Cultural diversity was part of the American experience, going back to colonial days and through the Revolution and the first tenuous years of independence
The American Revolution was the product of extraordinary individuals. But background circumstances also contributed.
Setting out to take Tehran may or may not have been a mistake. Setting out to take Tehran and then not taking it almost clearly is.
The pioneer died this week at 92.
This year’s primaries seem to be providing little in the way of good news for both parties’ futures.
