43rd presidential administration and cabinet of the USA (2001-2009)
Editors at the Washington Examiner assess Donald Trump’s electoral victory. President Donald Trump is not the first president to return to the White House after losing a previous reelection bid,…
Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online looks into President Trump’s support among Republicans. [E]ven ignoring his exaggerations, he is consistently hitting in the mid- to high 80s with Republicans in…
Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online turns the clock back 15 years. Democrats by 2004 had become obsessed with defeating incumbent President George W. Bush. Four years earlier, in…
For the last several days, news of General Motor’s (GM) plans to close plants and eliminate nearly 15,000 jobs in the U.S. and Canada have been blanketing the news. President…
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon details a new report about the potential positive impact of the Trump administration’s approach to regulation. President Donald Trump’s executive order to eliminate…
Rich Lowry of National Review explores President Obama’s record on national security. President Barack Obama desperately wanted to be a peacetime president, yet is ending his second term with Islamic…
Amity Shlaes aims her latest Forbes column at new voters, suggesting that they peruse two new books written by former staffers in the Bill Clinton and George W Bush administrations.…
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute hasn’t heard as much as he would like from Republican presidential candidates about shrinking the size of the federal government. He shares his concerns…
Gene Epstein uses his latest “Economic Beat” column for Barron’s to argue that a loss of economic freedom has helped slow American growth. There were five expansions from 1970 to…
Fans of the late Robert Novak might remember a minor controversy that erupted in December 2005 when Novak addressed a John Locke Foundation Headliner audience in Raleigh. During the question-and-answer…
Rich Lowry explains for National Review Online readers why George W. Bush isn’t the only American president deserving of criticism for declaring “mission accomplished” before a war has been won.…
It’s not just right-of-center commentators taking note of recent silliness involving college commencement ceremonies. The latest issue of TIME tackles the topic as well. Zealous students at such institutions as…