President Donald Trump’s visit to Asia and expected meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in South Korea on Thursday will be pivotal. While trade and rare-earth exports will dominate headlines, the deeper contest is ideological: democracy versus authoritarianism, conscience versus control. At the center of this struggle is Taiwan, the flashpoint […]

What happened to the Whigs in the 1850s? And will the same thing happen to today’s Democrats? After the Federalist Party of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams collapsed in the aftermath of the War of 1812, the Whigs arose to replace them as the alternative to the Democratic Party that took its nascent form around […]

The Democratic Socialists of America just wrapped up a Hajj to their Mecca: Havana, a city so buried in detritus after decades of communism that it’s a wonder why any politician would want to be associated with it. Comparing photos of the Cuban capital today with those from the 1950s is an anti-socialist campaign ad that writes […]

President Donald Trump makes Democrats behave unreasonably and fly into overblown rhetoric. That talent, if it can be called such, has been on display since Trump’s decision and fast action to knock down the East Wing of the White House and build a modern ballroom in its place. Former first lady Hillary Clinton accused Trump […]