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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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In the new book I just completed, I’ve been writing about the sudden, shocking death of Franklin Roosevelt—victim of a brain hemorrhage at age 63. He’d already served 12 years as president, and just won a fourth term, but his aides...
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The cheating scandal in college admissions should force immediate changes at leading universities. For instance, corrupt parents bribed coaches and created false records for their kids, who pretended to be athletic stars in water polo,...
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Only a tiny percentage of American families have ever resorted to cheating or bribery to get their kids into top schools, but all those who obsess on a few elite schools make a destructive mistake. USA TODAY cited an important study from...
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Imagine if conservatives had attacked freshman congress member Ilhan Omar by questioning her loyalty to the United States and suggesting that she cared more about her Muslim faith or her Somali homeland than she did about America....
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The televised Michael Cohen hearings of the House Oversight and Reform Committee showed that the two political parties not only differ in their attitudes toward president Trump, but offer a stark contrast in the demographics they...
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