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James Antle of the Washington Examiner focuses on Republicans’ assessments of their presidential nominee. With former President Donald Trump trailing in the polling averages for the first time in months,…
Rich Lowry of National Review Online ponders a recent transformation for the American vice president. How did Kamala Harris become so good at this? How does a sub-par vice president…
Ron Faucheux of the Washington Examiner probes the link between President Biden’s approval ratings and next week’s midterm election results. President Joe Biden is in the final days of his…
David French of National Review Online offers a defense of the oft-maligned Electoral College. If anyone thinks the American republic would remain stable if political power is consolidated in coastal…
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest National Review Online column ponders the political Left’s overheated reaction to its loss of political power. The Trump agenda enrages the Left in much the same…
Tevi Troy highlights for Wall Street Journal readers a new book about an important — but often underappreciated — role in presidential campaigns. It is widely regarded as the worst…
Those who are paying close attention to the day-to-day developments in presidential polling might want to peruse historian David Greenberg’s essay in the latest issue of The Atlantic. In November…
Conrad Black explains in a National Review Online column why the results of this month’s elections send a positive message about the American political scene. The generally predicted, long-awaited, and…
The latest Atlantic includes Molly Ball’s recommendation that the Republican Party learn a lesson from Democrats’ efforts to remake their party from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. While Ball’s…
Don’t worry. I’m not going to say anything about suspending elections. Instead I’m highlighting a new column from the Weekly Standard‘s Jay Cost, who wonders whether it makes much sense…
Jonah Goldberg‘s latest column for National Review Online sets out some of the challenges President Obama faces as he pursues re-election in 2012. A major strain of conventional wisdom in…
The N&R’s Doug Clark (unposted) reviews Gary Pearce’s biography of longtime Gov. Jim Hunt. Clark addresses the big question: Could Hunt have become president had he beaten Jesse Helms in…