When Ken Miller changed his party registration from Democrat to Republican in September 2020, he said he wasn’t doing it for Donald Trump. He had not voted for Trump nor […]
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GOP needs to tell voters about its plans
by Ramesh Ponnuru Mitch McConnell knew this would happen. For months, the Senate Republican leader had been telling anyone who would listen — other senators, party donors, even the occasional […]
How did Kushner get $2B from the Saudis?
by Timothy L. O’Brien Jared Kushner’s new private equity firm got $2 billion from Saudi Arabia because maybe that’s how you can cash in when your investing experience is slender […]
What if Fox News viewers watch CNN?
by Matthew Yglesias The establishment of Fox News in the late 1990s forever changed both media and politics in America, transforming the formerly staid world of television news into the […]
America looks for fresh programming
by David M. Shribman Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams did it. So did Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison. Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, too. Also William Jennings […]
CBS News giving Mulvaney a paid gig is an act of journalistic malpractice
by Kurt Bardella From mid-December 2018 through early March 2020, Mick Mulvaney, a former member of Congress from South Carolina, served as President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff. On […]
Ron DeSantis is not a Trump clone
by Ramesh Ponnuru If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, it’s already obvious what one of the main Democratic lines of attack will be: He’s […]
Long inflation and its political impacts
by Byron York While much of the political world focused on the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, across town in Washington on Monday, the chairman of […]
Unforced GOP errors could help Democrats
by Carl P. Leubsdorf The Democrats face a tough fight to retain their tenuous hold on the U.S. Senate, but they’ve gotten some unexpected help in recent weeks — from […]
U.S. walks fine line between aiding and escalating
We knew that as the war in Ukraine ramped up, President Biden’s critics — particularly Republican politicians — would oppose whatever actions he took, either by accusing him of doing […]
