Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online assesses former President Jimmy Carter’s impact. The conventional wisdom about Carter might be an oversimplification, but that doesn’t mean the gist is wrong. In…
Neal Freeman writes for National Review Online about former President Donald Trump’s important vice presidential selection. In a series of careful timed-release leaks, Donald Trump has now revealed what we…
Robert Spaulding writes for the Martin Center about the health of liberal-arts education at one Minnesota campus. Macalester College is a small (2,000-plus students), highly regarded, and very selective liberal…
John Fund writes for National Review Online about the latest challenges for Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden. When Joe Biden announced last month, he became the instant Democratic front-runner, based…
John Merline offers Issues & Insights readers a reality check about recent polling results. [A] Morning Consult story that found Biden with a 42 percent to 34 percent lead over…
From Reason’s Eric Boehm: Six government appointees, including the son of a vice president, who negotiated how much public money would be spent building the Minnesota Vikings’ new football stadium…
Andrew Malcolm writes in The Sacramento Bee about the role of presidential debates in the election campaign. American politics were forever changed with the first nationally televised presidential debate, exactly…
Reason.com’s Jacob Sullum points out what could, from a free market perspective, be the most important result of Monday’s Iowa Caucus–a candidate that favors the elimination of ethanol subsidies and…
Ken Fisher of Forbes investigates the history of the stock market and presidential election outcomes. I’ve turned up a 155-year indicator that suggests Hillary Clinton will not be elected next…
William Voegeli writes in the Weekly Standard about Democratic politicians’ concern that the American people can’t be trusted to comprehend the benefits of big government. … [T]oday’s Democrats are only…
During a recent appearance on Talk Radio 850 WPTF, your correspondent was asked to respond to a recent poll suggesting that Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie would face a tight…
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…