LA Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman faced off in the first mayoral debate of the general election, and both managed to earn terrible grades. For 90 minutes...
At long last, the vaunted “red wave” that eluded the Republican Party two years ago washed over the United States and carried President-elect Donald Trump back to the White House and likely with it a Republican-controlled Congress. Two years ago, Republicans stood at their election night watch parties in disbelief as the sizable House and […]
Making a political concession speech is a difficult, emotionally fraught task. In Vice President Kamala Harris‘s concession remarks Wednesday afternoon, she ably upheld the civic imperatives of the moment. Let’s not parse every word to identify phrases from Harris that critics believe are disingenuous. Sometimes the cause of statesmanship requires a sort of civically lofty […]
For reasons of culture and history, Russians respect strength. They despise weakness and enjoy devouring those who offer it. President-elect Donald Trump prizes himself as an artist of effective negotiation. Trump’s negotiations delivered some dividends in his first term. The former president transitioned U.S.-North Korean relations from the precipice of war to an eccentric but […]
By noon on Election Day, the Washington Examiner had two editorials ready to publish once the voters’ choice for president was revealed some hours later. Both assumed that former President Donald Trump would win, which is what we expected. The first examined Trump’s comeback, the most astonishing in America’s political history, from indictments, impeachments, and […]
Minority voters have rejected the diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology of the Democratic Party and the DEI candidate that the party put forward. It should be the end of the DEI racialization of our politics. Across the map, Vice President Kamala Harris lost ground among black, Hispanic, and female voters, despite her campaign’s obsessive focus […]
Education has been the calling card of the Democratic Party when it comes to “kitchen table” matters for decades. Yet, four years after destructive COVID-19 lockdowns showed that Democrats couldn’t be trusted with the K-12 education system, it’s a concern that has been largely abandoned by the party, and when candidates do engage on it, […]
Whether you’re a die-hard supporter of President-elect Donald Trump or a vehement opponent of him, Trump’s landslide election victory is positive in at least one sense. It means that Europe will finally need to take seriously the notion that Americans are fed up with subsidizing the defense of an otherwise wealthy political bloc. This matters […]
