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Yuval Levin offers Atlantic readers ideas for improving the way the American government functions. Phases of intense dysfunction and frustration in American public life have tended to be followed by…
That’s the title of Bari Weiss’s recent interview with the new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party. Because I have lots of friends and relations in the UK, I follow British…
Madeleine Kearns writes for National Review Online about one potential impact of Brexit. President Obama saw Britain’s continued membership in the European Union as a worthy enterprise: one that secured…
John Podhoretz explains in the latest issue of Commentary magazine why he recommends that we “throw out the polls.” I write on the morning after the British general election, in…
For those who are wondering who to blame for the political tug of war that has led to a partial federal government shutdown, Andrew McCarthy offers a compelling constitutional lesson…
The liberal in question must not be from around these parts. And she isn’t. Oomagh McDonald served for 11 years as a Labour Party member of Britain’s House of Commons,…
Michael Barone‘s latest column assesses the potential political results from debate over U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s latest budget proposal. As I listened to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan describe…
Winston S. Churchill has died at 69. He had been battling cancer. The former member of Britain’s Parliament and the grandson of the famous World War II-era prime minister spoke…
From The New York Times: After days of mounting pressure over Britain?s parliamentary expenses scandal, Michael Martin, the speaker of the House of Commons, announced Tuesday that he would step…
A Patriot during the Revolutionary War, Jesse Franklin later served his state in the House of Commons, as a state senator, as a U.S. Representative, a U.S. Senator (president pro…
The Speaker “cannot talk to anybody right now about anything”, including his role in drawing up lottery legislation. That is an odd way of putting it.