PITTSBURGH — President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from his re-election race and his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement was not met with as much enthusiasm among Pennsylvania Democrats as it was among party leaders in some other parts of the country. Pennsylvania is arguably the most important swing state in the country. […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, hears what he wants to hear and is told by his underlings what they think he wants to hear. China needs dramatic economic reforms today. Its economy is weighed down by a model which no longer works. The real estate bubble has burst. The banking […]
The partisan political landscape today would never have been predicted a dozen years, or two dozen days, ago. And yet the current alignment, I would argue, is in line with the Republicans’ and Democrats‘ longstanding basic character as the oldest and third oldest political parties in the world. As I argued in my 2019 book […]
Former President Donald Trump gave a touching tribute at the Republican National Convention to Corey Comperatore, the slain former fire chief who was killed during the assassination attempt of Trump on Saturday, July 13. Comperatore’s protective fire coat and helmet were displayed on the stage behind Trump. Trump raved about Comperatore’s bravery. “He lost his […]
The U.S. Secret Service was, until last Saturday, widely seen as the world’s preeminent protective security agency. The intensity of training and range of capability it delivers to its protective mission remains unparalleled. But the near assassination of former president and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump shatters this reputation and is a disaster for the […]
His enablers were truly cynical and dishonest, hoping that their fake narrative about Biden’s continued vitality could see them through until November.
“If the Republicans’ lead in the polls holds through November, the Milwaukee Trump-fest will be remembered as the bell lap that heralded perhaps the...
