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Kyiv When my friends ask how my second trip to Ukraine was, I tell them it was 99 percent safe. It's just that last 1 percent that'll get ya. On [...]

We're just weeks away from the Iowa Republican caucus, the crucial, make-or-break first contest featuring Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Nikki Haley locked in a steel-cage grudge match that is [...]

Back in 2015, my best friend Cam Edwards and I co-wrote Heavy Lifting: Grow Up, Get a Job, Raise a Family, and Other Manly Advice. Regnery had asked whether I [...]

Pop quiz: Q: Who was President Obama's first secretary of transportation? A: Former Illinois GOP congressman Ray LaHood. Q: Who was Obama's second secretary of transportation? A: Former Charlotte, N.C., [...]

When Covid-19 first darkened our lives in the opening months of 2020, it was not only reasonable but logical to suspect that the virus had originated from some animal sold, [...]

Autumn is here, and American children are finally returning to classrooms, five days a week, after the COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted the past two school years. Or at least kids [...]

On the first day of November, President Biden visited the OB Johnson Park and community center in Hallandale Beach, Fla., to deliver remarks on 'protecting Social Security and Medicare and [...]

It is easy to find Democrats who believe that their party's problem is not runaway inflation, poor communication, or flawed candidates. The real problem, they contend, is that the structure [...]

IN Julian Castro's less than widely read, cookie-cutter autobiography, My Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from the American Dream, the former mayor and cabinet official begins with a story of driving [...]

The article discusses the upcoming Iowa Republican caucus and presents six truths about the primary process. The author criticizes the lack of options besides Donald Trump, who remains the preferred candidate for about half of the Republican Party. The article suggests that the primary's outcome may not be significantly affected by recent events, and that Trump's lead in the polls remains strong. It also mentions the possibility of a narrow win for Ron DeSantis in Iowa, but considers it unlikely. The author concludes by questioning the enthusiasm for Trump despite his past performance and grandiose promises. [Extracted from the article]

MORE than 13 million Americans voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries. And while the Vermont senator didn't win the nomination, he walked away with a considerable [...]

At the start of the 2022 school year, one of my best friends began a new job at an elementary school that taught kindergartners through fifth-graders. FATHER'S DAY FEATURES BACK in 2015, my best friend Cam Edwards and I co-wrote Heavy Lifting: Grow Up, Get a Job, Raise a Family, and Other Manly Advice. That seemingly all-consuming work project, the striving for that big promotion, those intractable deadlines, that unexpected challenge that seemed so stressful - in a decade or two, few will remember and even fewer will care. Parenting teenagers requires doing algebra in the eye of a hurricane. [Extracted from the article]

Just about everybody hates losing. Just about everybody really hates losing and knowing it was a genuine, earned defeat, and that the outcome didn't just come down to a lucky [...]

The best indicator of the Trump campaign's standing in Pennsylvania is the voter-registration numbers. In November 2016, Pennsylvania had 4.2 million registered Democrats, 3.3 million registered Republicans, and 1.2 million [...]

ARTICLES POP quiz: Q: Who was President Obama's first secretary of transportation? Buttigieg's ambitions are likely encouraged by national and international media figures asking him repeatedly whether he'll run, as though they can't wait to cover another Buttigieg presidential campaign. From the beginning, Pete Buttigieg seemed like an odd choice to be President Biden's secretary of transportation. [Extracted from the article]

In the run-up to Hunter Biden's plea deal with the Department of Justice, President Biden didn't merely say he believed that his son had not violated the law; he told MSNBC in May, "My son has done nothing wrong." Biden defenders may concede their man is full of "malarkey", to use one of the president's favorite terms, but they're likely to argue that his lies are mostly harmless exaggerations and much less consequential than Trump's. ARTICLES IF you point out that Donald Trump lies a lot, quite a few Trump fans will respond that Joe Biden lies more and that his lies are worse. [Extracted from the article]

IF you're having trouble keeping track of all the Democratic presidential candidates, it's understandable. To bring you up to speed, so far there's New Jersey senator Cory Booker, South Bend [...]

For many years, former Starbucks chairman and CEO Howard Schultz was a mainstream Democrat in good standing. He and his wife have donated $193,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since [...]

Way back in 1996, a little-known high-school teacher named Victor Morales won the Texas Democratic Senate primary. He beat two better-known and better-funded members of Congress, John Bryant and Jim [...]

Dallas A RECORD 87,154 members, hunters, and gun owners attended this year's National Rifle Association annual meeting in early May, and for the first time ever, the U.S. president and [...]

No contest demonstrated the scope of the GOP wave in 2014 quite like the Maryland governor's race. Maryland's Republicans hadn't won a statewide race since 2002, and no other state [...]

The article reports on the evidence showing that the Covid-19 pandemic has originated from a laboratory leak in China. Also cited are how researcher Wenhui Li and colleagues discovered that the SARS-CoV outbreak in 2002-2004 has originated from exotic animals from a Guangdong marketplace in China, the failure by Chinese researchers to find the Covid-19 virus in animals like bats and pangolins, and why the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China could be the source of Covid-19.

IN mid September, the campaign of Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie released a funny YouTube video to promote his transportation plan. A dashboard camera shows Gillespie at the wheel [...]

TO THE EDITOR: Daniel Johnson begins his discussion of anti-Americanism by heaping well-deserved praise on Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes's America Against the World ['America and the America-Haters,' June]. That [...]

THIS November, Republicans will face the first major test of whether their candidates can overcome 'Akinization'--Democrats' efforts to tie them to the theocratic bogeyman evoked by failed Missouri Senate candidate [...]

After the 2008 elections, liberal bloggers chortled that the Republicans were becoming a 'rump regional party' (the phrase became a cliche) that couldn't compete outside the South. The 2010 midterms [...]

The Louisiana Democratic party has effectively conceded this year's gubernatorial race. This does not mean merely that the party could not find a big-name challenger--though they couldn't--or that they could [...]

ARE the national media really running around asking whether John McCain's running mate, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, is a bad mother? No, they respond: They are only fulfilling their duty, [...]

NEVER mind the concession from John Kerry. The GOP ought to be demanding a concession from pollster John Zogby. After his striking successes in 1996, when he accurately projected Bill [...]

IN the Democrats' long history of dishonest vote-grubbing, their recent perpetuation of rumors that President Bush will bring back the military draft is not the most shameless--but it might make [...]

JOHN KERRY is blessed with a reputation as a 'great finisher.' The candidate himself bragged to Newsweek, 'I'm known as a good closer.' Charles P. Pierce wrote in Esquire that [...]

YOU hate to see a great talkshow host go bad. Few political hosts combine the raw love of politics, evenhanded skepticism, impatience with canned answers, and sheer capacity for spoken-words-per-minute [...]

When asked about his eleven-year reign as Vermont's governor, Howard Dean likes to paint himself as a maverick who boldly fought for principles and unified his state on a platform [...]

The article profiles Julian Castro, former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, and examines the possibility of him running as a Democratic candidate for president in the 2020 election despite declining in national recognition since 2012.