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Why was America in the Revolutionary War era, with 3 million people, able to generate leaders of the quality of Benjamin Franklin and George...
What were they thinking? Did President Joe Biden and the folks who put together his immigration policy imagine the voting public would celebrate...
Donald Trump's anodyne if overexcited comment that the U.S. auto industry would face a "bloodbath" if he's not elected and doesn't impose 50% or 100%...
Last week's Super Tuesday results ensured the renominations of former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, barring some unanticipated...
The headlines coming out of the Super Tuesday primaries have got it right. Barring cataclysmic changes, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the...
Herewith some idiosyncratic, perhaps eccentric, observations on the electoral contests so far in this presidential cycle. 1. Turnout is down. In the...
What's been missing these past couple of months from the coverage of and debate over the failed immigration bill? Some important basic facts and lots...
What does America's overclass think of the rest of us? The short answer is "not much." They think ordinary people's splurging on natural resources is...
What happens when a political party becomes demotic? Before answering the question, note that the word in question is not demonic, from the Greek word...
The last six or seven months have been a couple of tough seasons for public policies based on lies. Two examples come to mind. One is the...
Forty years ago, when Walter Mondale won 49% in Iowa's Democratic caucuses, far ahead of Gary Hart's 16%, the media spotlight nonetheless immediately...
To explain the latest young generation’s pessimism, Washington Post opinion writer Taylor Lorenz took to what was then called Twitter last February...
How's America doing? Government statisticians provide mounds of data that provide useful clues, and none more so than the Census Bureau's estimates of...
How’s America doing? Government statisticians provide mounds of data that provide useful clues, and none more so than the Census Bureau’s...
At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, and in which current polling has the incumbent...
At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, and in which current polling has the incumbent...
Institutional rot. That's the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic...
Institutional rot. That’s the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic...
For those dismayed at how many college and university students and faculty, even, or especially, at selective and prestigious institutions, have been...
For those dismayed at how many college and university students and faculty, even, or especially, at selective and prestigious institutions, have been...
George Orwell, call your office. That's my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration's efforts to stamp...
George Orwell, call your office. That’s my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration’s efforts to...
Charlie Peters, who died yesterday on Thanksgiving at age 96, left many people with much to thank him for, not least the many writers who, as young...
There's plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season -- at least if you take your eyes off a presidential race in which most voters want to...
There’s plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season — at least if you take your eyes off a presidential race in which most voters want to...
In the nauseating demonstrations celebrating Hamas' slaughter of Israelis, one hears repeated, again and again, the refrain that Israelis are...
In the nauseating demonstrations celebrating Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis, one hears repeated, again and again, the refrain that Israelis are...
What's with young voters? It's a question prompted by two surprising and perhaps contradictory developments that are out of line with conventional...
What’s with young voters? It’s a question prompted by two surprising and perhaps contradictory developments that are out of line with conventional...
What’s with young voters? It’s a question prompted by two surprising and perhaps contradictory developments that are out of line with conventional...
Is it inevitable that Donald Trump will be the second person in history -- Richard Nixon was the first -- to win the Republican Party's nomination for...
Is it inevitable that Donald Trump will be the second person in history — Richard Nixon was the first — to win the Republican Party’s nomination...
After a little more than three weeks, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. He's Mike Johnson, first elected to the House in 2016 from a...
After a little more than three weeks, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. He’s Mike Johnson, first elected to the House in 2016 from a...
The 2020s are starting to look like the 1930s, as I wrote last week in the wake of Hamas' unprecedentedly vicious attack on Israel. Nations that...
The 2020s are starting to look like the 1930s, as I wrote last week in the wake of Hamas’s unprecedentedly vicious attack on Israel. Nations that...
Russia has been attacking Ukraine for 20 months now. Iran, through its terrorism partner Hamas, attacked Israel this weekend. China has been...
Russia has been attacking Ukraine for 20 months now. Iran, through its terrorism partner Hamas, attacked Israel this weekend. China has been...