With graduations just behind us, and the excitement of summer and a new school year brewing, it’s a good time to assess how these milestones shape us. I write steeped in prep for my own high school reunion, which occurred enough...
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The five presidential elections of the 21st Century have established a clear pattern of close battles between evenly matched parties – a pattern charismatic candidates and billions in spending can’t seem to break. Republican nominees...
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Everyone who follows politics knows that the core of Donald Trump’s popular support comes from white people without college degrees, who represent a huge 42% of the US population. But a major new study from Gallup shows that this key...
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Three liberal academics joined forces in an approach to climate change that conservatives should enthusiastically embrace. Led by best-selling author Steven Pinker of Harvard, the professors declare there’s only one way to free the world...
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Democrats won’t repeat their huge mistake of 2016—focusing on the popular vote and national polling while ignoring crucial mechanics of the Electoral College. To unseat Trump, the Democrats must flip at least three of the nine crucial...
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Every election, candidates claim: “This is the most important election of our lifetime,” but that’s generally untrue. For better or worse, no President since Reagan has profoundly transformed the country, but 2020 could well be...
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When you’re losing an argument, it’s pointless and self-destructive to keep it going. And if you’ve already won your argument, it’s ugly and demeaning to continue hectoring your vanquished foe. That’s why both parties to the...
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Radical activists and left-leaning media paint a one-dimensional portrait of Black America, showing African Americans as locked in poverty and hopelessness, and falling further and further behind their white counterparts. But the latest...
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I’d just come downstairs from my computer to my husband who was urging we go and enjoy this springtime Sunday, saying I was on deadline to write an article, and was trying to choose an appropriate subject. And then almost mystically, the...
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Americans on all sides complain bitterly about the polarization of our politics, but these divisions are nothing new. The Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations all featured angry, uneasy electorates in both presidential and Congressional...
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To the intense disappointment of hyper-partisan Democrats, the Mueller Report delivered anti-climactic results: no evidence of Russian collusion, no new charges against Trump and his team. Despite his complaints on twitter and elsewhere,...
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On the campaign trail, several leading Democratic presidential candidates express support for the concept of reparations paid to black people to compensate for the crimes of slavery. The most uncomfortable question about this terrible...
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