Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign updated its online biography of running mate Tim Walz’s military service amid Republican efforts to question his record in the...
Florida Democrats are aggressively challenging Venezuela’s tainted election, as they try to regain support from Hispanic voters after getting labeled by Republicans as "socialists"...
You know crime is out of control when someone like Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is willing to contradict himself and other elected Democrats to insert himself into local politics to try and fix the problem. Such is the case in Oakland, California. Newsom has interjected in Alameda County’s affairs on crime because crime in Oakland […]
“Weird” has been the word of the month in politics. If Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has its way, it will be the word of the year. In an election that, even more than most, leans more on vibes and less on substance, it has become an especially useful dodge. With Harris, an untested, unprimaried […]
Thirty-five years after Pete Rose was banned from baseball for betting on games, the question of whether his punishment fits the crime generates as much debate as ever. While HBO’s new documentary Charlie Hustle and the Matter of Pete Rose won’t settle the controversy, it will remind audiences of why Rose’s case inspires so much […]
Paul Nitze, his biographer James Graham Wilson observes, “crafted a new type of career: national security professional.” For half a century, Nitze served in high roles in American government. His career spanned nearly every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, encompassing the entirety of the Cold War. Highly respected, indeed sometimes feared, by […]
“Laws,” F.A. Hayek wrote, “must be general, equal, and certain.” An open society rests on public confidence in the impartiality of police and courts. Sometimes, that impartiality gives way under stress. It happened, for example, during the pandemic, when anti-lockdown protesters were repressed while Black Lives Matter protesters were indulged, and when 1,200 public health […]
On this, the 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon resigning the presidency, forgive some reflections of a personal rather than third-party nature. In the past two days and indeed for the past half-century, all sorts of people will put forth all sorts of takes about whether the resignation was a tonic for American politics (“it showed […]
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — They say what makes a neighborhood great is the people. That’s true most of the time. But sometimes it’s not the people. Sometimes, it’s the goats. We moved to Falls Church, Virginia, this summer, and in our first weeks there, our backyard hosted a parade of neighborhood kids and occasionally their […]