News broke over the weekend that Democrats are pushing the Biden campaign to expand their map of target states to include Texas and Georgia. Per Jonathan Martin in the New York Times: In a series of phone calls, Democratic lawmakers and party officials have lobbied Mr. Biden and … | Continue reading
An awful lot of Trump’s defenders in conservative media appear to be shocked by what is happening right now in America. But I’m kind of curious. What did they think was going to happen? The president has a real job. His words have real consequences. Electing someone to that posit … | Continue reading
Clark Neily explains how, in their preference for a policy that protects police, conservatives abandon their commitment to textualism and embrace pro-government judicial activism. | Continue reading
A letter from Lois Lowry, the author of ‘The Giver’ and ‘Number the Stars.’ | Continue reading
The coronavirus, you may have heard, is a biological weapon engineered in a Chinese lab and unleashed—accidentally?—on America by the godless communists. At least, according to Alex Jones. That’s one theory, anyway. Another is that, yes, the virus was engineered in a Chinese labo … | Continue reading
In the social media fog of war it can be easy to lose the thread as to just how the COVID-19 crisis came to our shores and what the Trump administration did and didn’t do to respond. This timeline provides a look at the key inflection points in the crucial ten-week period where t … | Continue reading
Reed Galen: The COVID-19 crisis shows how little elite Republicans got in exchange for the soul they had to give to Donald Trump. | Continue reading
Normally, there are around 180 polling places in the city of Milwaukee, serving roughly 300,000 registered voters. Unless there is a drastic, last minute change in plans for Tuesday’s pandemic election in Wisconsin, there will be only five polling locations in the entire city. Al … | Continue reading
Iran has had more COVID-19 deaths than any country but China. The Iranian people are right to doubt the regime’s facts and policies. | Continue reading
Barring a drastic change in the race, Bernie Sanders is going to be the presumptive Democratic nominee 11 days from now. Eleven days. Sometimes when I explain this to people I feel like Randy Quaid in Independence Day running around telling everyone at that trailer park that he w … | Continue reading
Some self-righteous writers believe that their goodness—and their opponents’ badness—justifies incivility. | Continue reading
Should President Donald J. Trump be impeached by the House of Representatives? If he is, should he then be removed from office by the Senate? There’s room for disagreement on both of these questions. But there should be room for agreement on the process by which Congress makes th … | Continue reading
The polarization and political passion manifest in the politics of impeachment today was anticipated by the Constitution’s designers. This problem is a product of the kind of issues that prompt calls for impeachment—alleged abuses of office and violations of the public trust. Ind … | Continue reading
If America won’t take care of our allies, Russia and China will. | Continue reading
Parsing the contradictory testimony and timeline offered by Trump’s ambassador to the EU. | Continue reading
The president—like a clever drug dealer or gangster—knows the importance of plausible deniability. Now it’s the essence of the GOP defense. | Continue reading
It has been interesting and instructive to watch the goalposts move on the story of Donald Trump, Ukraine, and impeachment. Interesting because the kind of gaslighting that normally takes place over the course of weeks has occurred over the course of days. Instructive because it … | Continue reading
It was bound to happen. Like a summer romance, this relationship always felt doomed to fail. Brought together by little more than the maxim “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Never Trumpers and Democrats seem like they’re on the verge of a break up. But unlike during the Kav … | Continue reading
In the opening moments of The Great Hack, one of its central figures ponders America’s 2016 presidential campaign: “Who was feeding us fear?” he asks. “And why?” This uncompromising Netflix documentary, available July 24, provides the answer: We have become commodities whose priv … | Continue reading
I spent the better part of my professional life (1991-2014) working at a libertarian think tank—the Cato Institute—arguing against climate action. As Cato’s director of Natural Resource Studies (and later, as a senior fellow and eventually vice president), I maintained that, whil … | Continue reading
Back in 2016, I was pretty bullish on Marco Rubio’s presidential prospects—right up until the moment I saw this: The candidate’s name in lower case? The letters all running together like one word? The CONUS map as the dot on the “i”? Yeah, bro. Graphic design is my passion. Look, … | Continue reading
Back in 2016, I was pretty bullish on Marco Rubio’s presidential prospects—right up until the moment I saw this: The candidate’s name in lower case? The letters all running together like one word? The CONUS map as the dot on the “i”? Yeah, bro. Graphic design is my passion. Look, … | Continue reading
A debate has erupted, particularly on the right, in response to a recent Tucker Carlson monologue on how “Washington elite” policy choices, in particular international trade liberalization, have systematically (and perhaps nefariously) harmed members of America’s working class, d … | Continue reading