The Trump Campaign Has Peaked Too Soon
Every battle has its culminating point—the perfect moment for a counterattack.
Abortion Isn’t About Feminism
It’s about freedom and families.
Biden Is Right to Take on the Court
Embracing checks and balances is good politics and even better policy.
The Left’s Self-Defeating Israel Obsession
Taking an extreme position, then demanding total orthodoxy, does no favors for democratic socialism in America.
Hillbilly Excuses
J. D. Vance champions the narrative he once attacked.
J. D. Vance’s Empty Nationalism
To believe that “people will not fight for abstractions” is to forget what makes America special.
This Crew Is Totally Beatable
Democrats just need to believe they can do it.
The Fakest Populism You Ever Saw
The Trumpian GOP is in a battle over which wealthy faction will win, not a class war.
The New Trump Is Always the Old Trump
Thursday’s speech was a fitting climax to a confused convention that spun wildly between partisan culture war and appeals to national comity.
The Democrats Aren’t Even Trying
They’re acting as if they already lost the election.
Republicans Think They Can Beat Biden, and Harris, and Whitmer, and Newsom
They’re not worried.
‘I Think It’s Happening’
The lone senator who has called on Biden to withdraw is growing confident that the president will leave the race.
The End of Biden’s Candidacy Approaches
Democratic leadership is making a more concerted effort to push him from the race.
The Only Thing Left for Republicans to Debate About Trump
The Republican National Convention has been purged of any resistance.
Democrats Are Drifting Toward Disaster
Biden’s path to victory is narrowing—and his party seems unable to respond.
J. D. Vance’s Permanent Grin
The Republican vice-presidential candidate’s MAGA transformation is complete.
I Thought I Understood the GOP. I Was Wrong.
The Ohio Republican Party has been remade in the image of native son J. D. Vance.
Biden Has Failed to Halt the Revolt
Congressional Democrats want a new nominee.
America’s Political Leaders Are Living in Fear
To hold public office in the United States today is to know that someone could try to kill you.
Cancel the Foreign-Policy Apocalypse
A second Trump term probably wouldn’t change U.S. foreign policy all that much.