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Why is populism, broadly defined, on the brink of historic victories around the world, while populism in the form of President Donald Trump's...
Why is populism, broadly defined, on the brink of historic victories around the world, while populism in the form of President Donald Trump’s...
Haven't we seen this movie before? Voters, weary of a Republican president whose foreign or domestic policies don't seem to be delivering as...
Haven’t we seen this movie before? Voters, weary of a Republican president whose foreign or domestic policies don’t seem to be delivering as...
From the clutter of midterm election poll results, it's possible sometimes to see new patterns of political support emerging. The overall...
From the clutter of midterm election poll results, it’s possible sometimes to see new patterns of political support emerging. The overall pattern,...
This election is a contest to see which party can do its best to lose. Looking forward from mid-September, President Donald Trump’s Republicans seem...
This election is a contest to see which party can do its best to lose. Looking forward from mid-September, President Donald Trump’s Republicans seem...
Just weeks after far-left candidates have won surprising victories in Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Colorado and New York...
Just weeks after far-left candidates won surprising victories in Democrat primaries in Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Colorado and New York City for...
Just weeks after far-left candidates have won surprising victories in Democratic primaries for Senate and House in the United States, in Pennsylvania,...
History illuminates the present. I've been reading Stephen Kotkin's widely and justly praised multi-volume biography of Joseph Stalin and...
History illuminates the present. I’ve been reading Stephen Kotkin’s widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Josef Stalin and have...
"'Woke 1' was crazy." So said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on ABC News' "This Week" earlier this month. ...
“Woke 1 was crazy.” So said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on ABC News’s This Week earlier this month. She said she was quoting New York...
The most surprising result in the batch of primaries held this week over the vast stretch of America from Florida through Wyoming to Alaska was the...
The most surprising result in the batch of primaries held this week over the vast stretch of America from Florida through Wyoming to Alaska was the...
It's worth poking around the entrails of the returns for the agonizingly close and, given the pre-primary polls, surprising results of recent...
It’s worth poking around the entrails of the returns for the agonizingly close — and, given pre-primary polls results — surprising results of...
Can I claim to have predicted, way back in 1988, the result of Michigan's fiercely contested Democratic primary for U.S. senator this week? The...
Can I claim to have predicted, way back in 1988, the result of Michigan’s fiercely contested Democratic primary for U.S. senator this week? ...
The emergence of the Democratic Socialists of America and their political victories, from New York City across the fruited plains of Michigan and...
Wars remake war. New weaponry, new tactics, and new strategy time and again produce results no one predicted or thought possible. Revolutionary...
Still boyish, energetic, and enthusiastic, Lindsey Graham died suddenly last weekend at the age of 71. Once upon a time, death at such an age was not...
It's beginning to be a habit. It, in this case, is the messy business of center-left political jettisoning one leader suddenly deemed unelectable...
The welcoming reception that so many European soccer fans have received as they have crossed the nation in pursuit of World Cup games has struck many...
As we inch toward the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, let me share a couple of reflections on the background of...
The sudden death of the historian Gordon Wood, just weeks before the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is one...
Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when...
Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San...
Ten years ago this month, Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination for president, with a platform that was vastly different on trade and...
As President Donald Trump's job approval sinks to or below 40 percent (depending on which poll you're looking at), betting markets and...
Knowingly or not, President Donald Trump, in his decision to attack Iran, has embarked on a foreign policy that has been, on and off, both persistent...
You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid. In a Manhattan Institute survey of Democratic voters, 46 percent said they believed it...
Hypocrisy was triumphant, as it usually is in arguments over redistricting, in Virginia this week, as voters approved a "fairness"...
What's the big deal about Hungary? It's a central European country with 9.5 million people — slightly less in population and area than the...
Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025? The markets, as this...
Will the U.S.–Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the Israel-Iran 12-day war of June 2025? The markets, as this...
"White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict." So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington...
“White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict.” So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington Examiner’s...
Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s line that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it...
Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s line that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends...