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Another Friday afternoon, another Supreme Court decision on the ground rules for the midterm elections. Today's 6–3 decision in Department of...
New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell has resigned just nine months into his term, following the release of an internal investigation. . . . The...
An interesting argument from scholar Patrick Fitzsimmons that what ended the Bronze Age was not a better substitute for bronze but a cheaper one: The...
Michael aptly summarizes the unique charms of Howie Rose as a Mets announcer, a job he has held since 1987 and, as a play-by-play man, since 1995. As...
Right-of-center media and politics are suffering from a glut of obsessive positioning. Once you start noticing this, you can't stop. As with many...
In my column on some people's effort to make the status of "Heritage Americans" (i.e., descended from multiple generations on American...
Erick Erickson has a must-read, deeply researched dive into Charles Haywood and other “Schmittian” thinkers insinuating themselves into positions...
As Noah observes, Donald Trump Jr. is acting as if there could be no consequences for behavior that just reeks of the same sort of ethical morass that...
As I noted when the Supreme Court ruled in late August in favor of Donald Trump's executive order (EO) on mail-in ballots and threw out a...
It can be hazardous to read too much into political fundraising emails. Hyperbole, deceptive tactics, ALL CAPS, colorful fonts, and a reek of...
We used to say that September 11 changed everything. And so it did — although, as we discussed on Charlie Cooke’s podcast, the world hasn’t...
When last we looked in on the Supreme Court's review of Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot executive order, less than two weeks ago, it was clear...
A perennial phenomenon every election season is the "October surprise," or some lesser version of the same: an event after Labor Day that,...
A resurfaced, since-deleted September 11, 2021, tweet from Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is making the rounds. On that 20th anniversary of...
The injunction against Donald Trump's East Wing ballroom has been shot down by the Supreme Court. The Court's 5–4 decision, by a per...
Pope Leo XIV recently met Lou Marini, who is best known popularly as the saxophonist from the Blues Brothers band on several albums and in the Blues...
Donald Trump yesterday took time out from his "let them eat lakes" campaign to post on the internet a ranking of the U.S. presidents, with...
After the Supreme Court on Monday threw out the injunction against Donald Trump’s executive order on noncitizen mail-in ballots, you might have...
As I noted in my first post on today's decision in Alabama v. California -- which gives the background of what follows here -- the Supreme Court...
The Supreme Court exists to resolve disputes. It does not exist to clean up messes. That is the mood in which the Court today — in a 6–3 unsigned...
I do not have a whole lot more light to shed on the common good debate, but I think I owe Michael Brendan Dougherty and our readers a short reply to...
That Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic primary for Senate by (at this writing) less than a point, after the last five polls in the race all...
The stock market just keeps roaring ahead, as if the country and the global economic outlook were much more bullish than they are. A major reason is...
It's not just the self-identified socialists who aim openly to destroy the American constitutional system of government. And the evidence of this...
Finding common ground on the common good continues to be elusive. Allow me to add a few more words in reply to Michael Brendan Dougherty. If you are...
I’ve written on several occasions about the imprecision and dubious legitimacy of the "common good” as a theory of interpreting the...
On social media and in the commentariat, the right has spent the past few months in a sort of numb denial, talking about anything and everything but...
The internal controversy at PEN America shouldn’t obscure the original point that touched it off: that progressive mania about Gaza has so pervaded...
As Ramesh notes, PEN America is yet again in turmoil for straying from its mission, which is supposed to be the championing of the freedom of the...
Bill Scher at Washington Monthly is sounding the alarm from the establishment-liberal corner of the Democratic Party on an issue that is likely to...
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is blaming a computer error for thousands of non-citizens being added to the state’s voter rolls under...
Brian Fitzpatrick has a very telling anecdote in his defense of Louisiana v. Callais (2026) at SCOTUSBlog: This publication has been inundated with...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to take an extremely Alaskan case that reads like something out of Smokey and the Bandit. As Amy Howe at...
Lindsey Graham was the last truly interesting man in Washington. Even when you knew where he wanted to go, you never quite knew how he was going to...
Emma Whitford at Inside Higher Education has a story from Brown University that is hair-raising even by the appalling standards of the current...
Mitch McConnell has been absent from the Senate for three weeks, since June 14, when he was hospitalized. McConnell's absence leaves the Senate...
Thirty years ago, the entire Democratic Party set out to convince the country that the character and morals of our leaders were irrelevant —...
The Bangor Daily News reports that the embattled Maine Senate candidate, Graham Platner, “has postponed a string of events Sunday and Monday as...
The first thing to understand about the dissents in Trump v. Barbara is that they are not about children of illegal immigrants. The Trump executive...
Given the stakes and the extensive body of scholarship on the citizenship clause, the 26-page majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts in Trump...
The Supreme Court this morning, in Trump v. Barbara, settled by a 5–4 vote the long debate: Children born in the United States are entitled to...
To read the headlines and social media hyperbole, you might think that yesterday's 7–2 decision in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell was in favor of...
It has not been a great few months for Neal Katyal. As Charlie Cooke has detailed, Katyal and Hawaii got trounced, and properly so, in Wolford v....
My column discusses the contortions of language and common sense required by the dissent in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. Here, I’ll add another angle. In...
This morning's Supreme Court decision in Blanche v. Lau is probably the least of the three immigration cases that remained on the Court's...
A northern Minnesota election judge was sentenced to 30 days in Hubbard County Jail for accepting 11 ballots from unregistered voters in the 2024...
Unfortunately, in its order list this morning, the Supreme Court declined to hear RMS of Georgia, LLC d/b/a Choice Refrigerants v. EPA, the...
Donald Trump turned 80 on Sunday. When Joe Biden was president, 80 was too old for the job (even if people who mocked Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, and...
The Supreme Court this morning granted certiorari to hear Genalo v. Black, a petition by the Trump administration seeking to overturn a Second...
I was running some numbers while working on my book, and while the history is a staple of the best commentary on the period, putting it in graphical...
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