If Alexis de Tocqueville returned to America after nearly 200 years, what, once he had freed himself from the tender ministrations of the TSA, would the author of Democracy in America think? It would not take long to discover that he had been right to worry that time would turn two American strengths into weaknesses. Democracy had […]

Jason Reitman’s new film, Saturday Night, dramatizes the behind-the-scenes chaos of the making of the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975. The movie, timed to release shortly before the show’s 50th anniversary, is an odd, if entertaining, duck — a bit inside-baseball for SNL fans and a bit of nostalgia for a time […]

The more interviews Kamala Harris does, the more one understands her original decision to do as few as possible. They keep revealing her weaknesses as a candidate or — heaven forfend! — a future president.  Her interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Oct. 16 was not an immediate disaster. She was still standing […]

Americans are increasingly certain that their political opponents aren’t merely wrong, but evil. Now, accusing your neighbor of being a moral degenerate is generally frowned upon. For good reason. In the real world, we still need to live together peacefully. And anyway, my liberal acquaintances and friends are delightful people. It is because my liberal friends are […]

President Joe Biden will attend a European Quad leaders meeting in Berlin on Friday. The other leaders being United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. If not in their China policies, Starmer and Macron are reliable allies for European security. Not so Scholz. Indeed, if elected, Donald […]

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward outlined a recent email he received from former Defense Secretary James Mattis, where he seemingly agreed with Woodward's dire warning about a second Trump administration. During an appearance Thursday on "The Bulwark Podcast," Woodward told the host that Mattis — who served under former President Trump — acknowledged Gen. Mark Milley's...

Former President Trump on Friday responded to a barrage of attacks from Vice President Harris that he's "unstable" and "unhinged," telling Fox News he's "the most stable human being." Trump appeared in studio with the hosts of "Fox & Friends" in New York City, where Ainsley Earhardt noted Harris has in recent days increasingly called...