Byron Donalds attacks David Jolly's shifting stances on abortion, immigration and drilling, calling them political convenience in Florida's governor race.
New Jersey's governor on Thursday called on the state's lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, to resign by Friday after a law firm hired by her office concluded he violated the state's ethics and discrimination rules.
TRUMP, THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, CONGRESS, AND THE WAR. In 2002, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, President George W. Bush went through a long and elaborate process to secure the approval of Congress for going to war. On Oct. 10, 2002, the House passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force by a […]
I am sorry to report that Grant Ujifusa, my longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, died last month after a long and painful illness. His obituary in the New York Times, by Trip Gabriel, gives a fine account of his work on securing passage and President Ronald Reagan’s signature on the law for […]
If you cannot beat them, join them. So say some young women after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Not that they are joining Republicans in support of Trump. Quite the opposite: These women are protesting the election outcome by abstaining from sex or, really, from any relations with men. As often […]
There’s a funny moment near the end of The Wizard of Oz when the Wizard grants tokens to each of Dorothy’s companions to acknowledge all they had attained in the course of their journey. To the Scarecrow, who, you may recall, only wanted a brain, the Wizard bestows a degree. “Why, anybody can have a […]
President-elect Donald Trump reportedly wants to fire thousands of federal workers. He has also suggested a cost-cutting commission led by Tesla founder Elon Musk, which presumably would include firing government employees. There are a few they should start with to combat the weaponization of the federal government, most prominently by the Department of Justice. Attorney […]
In 2011’s Moneyball, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his assistant, Peter Brand, use a sabermetric analysis method to evaluate underrated players to cobble together a competitive Major League Baseball team on a shoestring budget. The film somewhat faithfully captures the beginning of baseball’s analytics boom, during which numbers and formulas unseated much of […]
Israel is currently embarked on the most successful counterterrorist campaign in history. In a span of months, the Jewish state has taken out the leaders of both Hamas and Hezbollah, the two terrorist groups that most threaten Israel’s existence, as well as their successors. And in a daring operation, Israel turned Hezbollah’s communications systems against […]
Often erroneously attributed to John Wayne, the quote “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid” actually comes from George V. Higgins’s 1970 novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. The phrase is spoken by a gunrunner trying not to get killed during a deal, but its applications are truly universal. Let’s not be so […]
It is amazing what Americans can accomplish without involving the government. There are, of course, multiple highways that crisscross the Lone Star State, but if you want to bike, run, or ride across the state, you are out of luck … until now. Bike enthusiast Charlie Gandy, along with his friends at Bike Texas, a […]
When people complain about how much they must spend in taxes, big government Democrats often mock them. Who, then, is going to fix the roads? Or keep schools running? Or launch SWAT team raids to detain and execute people’s pet squirrels? That last one is what your tax money helps fund if you are a […]
Had the Democrats picked a different candidate, they would have won. All the talk of realignments, Latinos, blue-collar workers, and whatnot, while interesting, is beside the point. Around the world, the politicians in office when the bills for the pandemic came in were walloped. Voters in the United States displayed the same selective amnesia about […]
Back in the early 1990s, anxious about long-term regional decline and hoping to put my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, back on the map, local leaders embarked upon constructing a totally new light rail system that was to provide living proof of our dynamic vision for the future. The MetroLink promised to unite the diffuse […]
When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, some demonstrators held up signs that said, “IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CAKE.” Oddly enough, the activists are right. It wasn’t about the cake then, and it isn’t now in 2024. It is especially not for custom cake baker Jack Phillips, […]
The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982; By Chris Nashawaty, Flatiron; 289 pp., $29.99 As we approach the dying days of a movie summer dominated by Deadpool & Wolverine, the premise of a new book by veteran film journalist Chris Nashawaty may sound like a bit of a tough sell. […]
Few events in U.S. history are as romanticized as the Civil War. Many of its figures seem to be cast from marble, immune from the “picklocks of biographers,” as the poet Stephen Vincent Benet famously said of Robert E. Lee. Perhaps none have been more mythologized than Abraham Lincoln. But as Nigel Hamilton shows in […]
