Over the past few years, public confidence in the U.S. military, which has been extraordinarily high for decades, has fallen precipitously. In a poll of attitudes toward the military, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute found that the percentage of people expressing a great deal of trust and confidence in that institution had fallen […]

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine extended Ohio’s first-in-the-nation ballot deadline to allow Democrats until September to nominate their presidential candidate this year, solving a filing date technicality that had seemed to threaten President Joe Biden’s Buckeye State ballot status. Still, Democratic power brokers have proceeded as though the Democratic National Committee has only until Aug. 7 […]

There is not a flicker of the old Republican Party left. No embers of fiscal conservatism, global leadership, or moral decency. Reaganism’s ashes are stone-cold. Milwaukee showed us a MAGA movement confident of victory. No previous Republican National Convention has known such vindictiveness, paranoia, and hero-worship. Sporting bandages on their ears, delegates loudly insisted that […]

Are you a gentleman of a certain age, looking to spoil yourself with a once-in-a-lifetime car? Your local Porsche dealer will show you the 532-horsepower 911 GTS, priced at $164,900 and up. This will impress your neighbors, local teenagers, and even your valet. Unfortunately, it will also earn you some gently dismissive smirks from the […]

I have a confession to make: For more than a decade, I’ve been addicted to Canadian football. It’s not the slick, polished product you see on Sunday afternoons in the NFL. No, this is a grittier, quirkier version of the game that feels like it was cooked up by a mad scientist. Even though it’s […]

Democrats are sharpening their attacks against former President Trump's vice-presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), calling him an anti-abortion extremist and a Trump clone who will pursue a far-right agenda hostile to women. Democrats think abortion is a key weakness for the Trump ticket and are eager to highlight Vance's past comments and positions...

The darkest hour of President Biden’s political career looked to be growing near on Thursday, as senior Democrats leaned on him to step aside, polls showed continued erosion in his position against former President Trump and donors worried that fundraising was drying up. Biden has tried several times to heal the wound he inflicted upon...

Republican efforts to win over Black voters during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee may have fallen short as GOP members failed to showcase party diversity and fell back on controversial talking points. Though former President Trump is hoping to siphon Black voter support from Democrats this year, only eight of the speakers at the convention...

California has thrown down a new gauntlet in the fight over transgender students. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) this week signed a law saying teachers could not be required to tell parents about a student’s name or pronoun changes in most circumstances, leading to at least one district filing a lawsuit and tech billionaire Elon...

Phone calls this week between lawmakers and the heads of the Secret Service and FBI have done little to quell a growing litany of questions as to what actions law enforcement officers did and didn’t take to allow an assassination attempt on former President Trump. New admissions that the Secret Service had flagged gunman Thomas...