The Associated Press will have thousands of people on hand next week to count votes and declare winners and losers in the U.S. election, continuing a tradition that began in 1848.

There’s a preposterous idea circulating in the chattering class of late: that Vice President Kamala Harris is being held to an unfairly high standard because of her race and gender.  Of course, we all know why this is suddenly on every pair of liberal lips. With news that Harris is losing the race for the […]

Watch out — the democracy defenders are at it again. Twenty years ago, the Cheneys, the Bushes, Nancy Pelosi, James Clapper, Tom Friedman, Anne Applebaum, Jeffrey Goldberg, and an army of other politicians, commentators, and bureaucrats deputized themselves as the defenders of democracy itself. Defending democracy back then meant launching a disastrous preemptive regime change […]

During his two previous presidential campaigns and one term as president, Donald Trump was routinely accused by the national security “clerisy” of violating the norms of U.S. civil-military relations, especially those related to the political neutrality of the military. Of course, those norms had been eroding for some time, and much of the blame can […]