While Phillips may talk a good game about being a voice of moderation and bipartisanship, he has consistently voted like a left-wing Democratic partisan.
Given Wednesday’s events on the Cooper Union campus, the school’s leaders could stand to reread the famous speech that Abraham Lincoln delivered there.
Things are about to get messier for President Biden in New Hampshire. Rep. Dean Phillips on Friday plans to kick off his upstart bid against Mr. Biden in New Hampshire. The announcement comes days after the Biden campaign announced he would not be appearing on the ballot there after trying -- and failing -- to strip the Granite State of its traditional first-in-the-nation primary status in part because its demographics are too White.
For perhaps the first time in his presidency, Joe Biden has met the moment in a key situation. He did so in a way that has required the White House to excoriate the antisemitism festering on the far-left flank of the Democratic Party and to stand up to execrable activists who have otherwise applauded the administration's progressive domestic policies.
A defining trait of America's public policy debates is that technocratic wonks, many of whom are temperamentally asocial and philosophically hyperindividualistic, try to craft laws and regulations to provide the goods that historically have been provided organically through community, family, and norms.
The head of the Maine Department of Public Safety declined to address concerns over the state’s “yellow flag” gun control laws after Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said they should have been triggered before the mass shooting in the state this week. “I'm heavily involved in the yellow flag conversation overall, but the reality for today...