president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884-1972)
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith analyze President Donald Trump’s unilateral approach to military action. The Constitution’s framers clearly aimed to check “the Dog of war,” in Jefferson’s phrase, by ensuring…
Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute highlights an important challenge for the American military. The United States Army’s ammunition boss told Congress he recently visited the Lake City Army Ammunition…
Charles Cooke writes for National Review Online about a former U.S. House speaker’s clear partisan double standard. As Nancy Pelosi knows, many other Democrats have taken action that was equivalent…
Editors at National Review Online call on President Biden to end the strike shutting down East Coast and Gulf Coast ports. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) demanded a 77 percent…
Dan McLaughlin writes for the New York Post about the downside of having an octogenarian president. In case you haven’t noticed, Joe Biden is old. Really old. How old is…
Alana Goodman of the Washington Free Beacon reports on the unusual number of Bidens living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. No president in decades has had as many adult relatives taking…
Editors at Issues and Insights highlight rare moments of insight from Vermont’s socialist U.S. senator. In two separate interviews with TV personality Bill Maher, Bernie Sanders said things that were…
Brian Riedl writes for the New York Post about President Biden’s questionable claims about the federal debt. How should a president respond to running a $1.4 trillion budget deficit —…
Ron Faucheux writes for the Washington Examiner about Democrats’ most pressing problem: their leader. Democratic Party strategists increasingly fear that President Joe Biden can’t win reelection. Polls show that most…
Christian Datoc of the Washington Examiner highlights one piece of good news for congressional Democrats. An analysis of recent elections shows that Democrats’ chances of holding onto one or both…
Robert Schmad writes for the Washington Free Beacon about historically bad news for the Biden administration. President Joe Biden in June achieved the highest disapproval rating in the history of…
Introduction Public-sector unions are central to some of the most contentious public policy issues in contemporary America. Do unions improve or impair the political process and elections? Do police unions…