Even after living in Oregon, off and on, for 30 years, I still tend to drive through a few towns there without looking right or left. One of these is Grants Pass, which has, as the Oregon Encyclopedia delicately puts it,...
That’s the right penalty for an ex-president who has been mouthing off in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. He can’t easily be sent to prison without making him a martyr. But picking up beer cans is perfect.
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Republican politicians like Ron DeSantis may rail against “woke” corporations. The reality is that when companies like Nike and Disney—no progressive angels themselves—seem to align with the left by promoting anti-racism and LGBTQ causes, they are catering to the tolerant demographic that matters most to the bottom line....
A murder of leading law professors have argued that the Fourteenth Amendment is self-executing and requires local election officials to remove Trump from the ballot, as though he were a “stable genius” who had not reached the age of 35. Taking their lead, citizens’ groups have commenced actions in at least 21 states to...
Has Donald Trump gone nuts? This is obviously a difficult question to raise about any person, let alone a candidate, who has demonstrated vicious, paranoid, and violent behavior. (A civil trial in a federal court found him guilty of sexual abuse, after all.) So, everything is relative. Still, all the armchair gerontologists...
Vought’s Center for Renewing America is one of many organizations working with the Heritage Foundation on an ambitious effort to prepare a blitzkrieg against the administrative state and turn the bureaucracy into the president’s personal strike force. Now celebrating the end of its fifth decade, the Heritage Foundation hopes...
Judis and Teixeira end their important study by noting that a Democratic Party that is liberal on economics and “moderate and conciliatory” on cultural issues would be broadly successful. They are not advocating an abandonment of liberal values or a split-the-difference moderation but a return to commonsense views held by...
United Auto Workers Local 551 President Chris Pena, center left, and United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, right, cheer with striking Ford workers outside the Ford Sequencing Center at 12429 S. Burley Ave., on the South Side, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Chicago. Ford Chicago Assembly Plant workers joined other UAW workers in...
Beyond the formal, furrowed-brow statements from congressional communications directors, Senator John Fetterman probably best captured the consensus view among Democrats of the House Speaker drama roiling Washington: “Replacing one dick with a different kind of dick isn’t going to change anything in the House.”...
On Sunday, an ABC/Washington Post poll gave us all heart attacks when it showed President Biden trailing former President Trump by ten percentage points. Responsibly, the Post and ABC took pains to say that that result was an “outlier.” But, more than a year before the 2024 election—before any of Trump’s trials or jury...
America faces a crisis of democracy, as the intellectual soil of the Republican Party has eroded. Authoritarian sentiments have overtaken the country’s conservative movement, which has come to realize it lacks the numbers to succeed democratically. Long-held laissez-faire conservative policies have no answers for modern...
Joe Biden is 80 and not very popular. Donald Trump is 77, not very popular, and facing four indictments. The possibility that one or both parties might replace either man before they secured their respective presidential nomination—or afterward—because of health, death, or legal conviction is worth considering if only...
The government shutdown is the stupidest legislative tactic ever conceived, with a perfect record of failure....
Public concern with the number of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border has placed incredible political pressure on President Joe Biden to act. This is nothing new. Waves of asylum seekers to the United States have regularly caused headaches for presidents from Democrat Jimmy Carter in the 1970s (Vietnamese) to Republican...
John Lauro was in a predicament last week that bodes well for the survival of the Republic. Lauro is Donald Trump’s lead attorney in the most important trial the former president faces—the one that will resolve whether he is guilty of masterminding a coup against the government and people of the United States....
To address this pressing problem, at least one secretary of state with the authority to make candidate eligibility rulings under state law must declare that Trump cannot appear on that state’s presidential primary ballot. (A recent Washington Post piece makes a similar recommendation.) Not all states give their secretary of...
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