left politics in the United States
J.T. Young writes for Townhall.com about a blind spot for the American political left. Everyone but America’s Left now acknowledges reality: Iran’s theocracy is an irredeemable terrorist regime. Whatever shred…
Editors at National Review Online highlight a disturbing problem for the Democratic Party. Last week, pro-Palestinian demonstrators trolled the streets of New York and Los Angeles to terrorize and attack…
Editors at National Review Online pan the new president’s approach to the Keystone XL Pipeline. Joe Biden has not yet been sworn in, but already, he is at war with…
That’s the title of a recent WSJ piece by Shelby Steele. Here are a few excerpts: How did the American left—conceived to bring more compassion and justice to the world—become…
Jay Cost reminds us in a National Review Online column that over-the-top, doom-and-gloom predictions are nothing new in American politics. 2017 was a year of great political anxiety. The American…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online links this week’s congressional shooting to a larger phenomenon. A great deal of spittle has been deployed in the debate over whether or to…
Rich Lowry of National Review focuses his attention on post-election protests targeting president-elect Donald Trump. Pity the anti-Trump protesters thronging the streets of American cities. Apparently, no one ever told…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online places some of America’s most well-known political humorists on the psychologist’s couch. The great American humorists have something in common: hatred. H. L. Mencken…
Yesterday the US and 11 other Pacific rim countries announced agreement on the terms of a huge trade pact called the Trans-pacific Trade Partnership (TTP). Bernie Sanders immediately tweeted his opposition (“I will do all…
Recent John Locke Foundation speaker Charles Cooke shares with National Review Online readers his thoughts about the latest developments in political correctness on college campuses. That so-called liberal students are…
In the letter below, Don Boudreaux reponds to an overly self-congratulatory book review wherein the author and reviewer think that attacking slavery was a great leftist success. Don points out…
Chairman Mao had his Red Brigades — hordes of young people who unquestioningly believed his assertions that certain people were “class enemies” and thus justifiably treated with hatred and violence.…