Our fascination with polls sometimes produces premature conclusions about next year’s presidential race, including the assumption that Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden will fight it out for the Democratic nomination. Past polling a year...
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Representative Ilhan Omar, known for demagoguery about the Middle East, recently displayed her appalling ignorance about the United States. Just last week, 405 members of Congress united to condemn the mass slaughter of Armenian Christians...
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Abraham Lincoln remains our most revered political leader but even some of his admirers misunderstand his rise to power. They believe Lincoln only became president in 1860 because Democrats divided, and three major candidates split the...
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Among the major religious traditions around the world, only one—Islam—currently and stubbornly associates piety, devotion, and sacred scholarship with murderous violence. A Washington Post headline unwittingly emphasized that point...
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On the day after the bold and successful American raid that killed the world’s most-wanted terrorist, the Washington Post ran an instantly infamous headline: ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI, AUSTERE RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR AT HELM OF ISLAMIC STATE, DIES...
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A shocking new survey highlights a growing threat to our First Amendment liberties. In a poll of 1,004 respondents, the Campaign for Free Speech found a majority of Americans who want to “rewrite the First Amendment to reflect the...
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A critically acclaimed new Broadway play highlights the bitter contempt that the left seems to feel toward all supporters of President Trump. Tracy Letts’ “Linda Vista” portrays an angry single guy going through mid-life crisis who,...
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According to a massive new Pew Research Center study of some 35,000 Americans, 27% now say they NEVER attend religious services – double the percentage of 20 years ago. This retreat from participation is led by Millennials: less than...
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Everyone seems frustrated by the bitterness and polarization in our politics today. But a major report in the Wall Street Journal says that all the angry conflict may damage our physical well-being as well as impacting our emotional...
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New medical analysis highlights a life-style choice that can increase your longevity—without giving up any of the indulgences or past-times you’ve come to enjoy. CIRCULATION, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association,...
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Like most of my fellow Republicans, I’m convinced that impeaching the president amounts to an irresponsible, destructive strategy — poisonous to political progress and damaging to the very Democrats who embrace the idea. But at the...
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An important new study from the American Medical Association makes the point that children hurt their school performance not by the total hours they spend in “screen time” but by the kind of screens they choose to watch. In the journal...
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