

Matt Bevin, the Republican nominee in the Kentucky governor's race, wasn't a very good candidate. By all accounts, he was standoffish... Read More

For a few minutes last week, Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, sounded like someone who hoped to push the chamber... Read More

Regardless of whether there is a President Cruz or a President Rubio in January 2017, regardless of the existence or size of a Republican... Read More

The disturbing evidence about the health of white middle-aged American working class, discovered and publicized this week by Nobel prize... Read More

For President Obama, the battle over climate change has grown into a two-front war. Internationally,... Read More

The news that Tea Party Republican Matt Bevin snatched the Kentucky governor’s mansion away from Democrats is a particularly stark... Read More

Donald Trump sees unpredictability as a virtue, so one can only guess what his policies would be if he makes it to the Oval Office. Yet... Read More

When was the last time you heard a sitting politician give a speech that made you stop and think? A speech where you actually learned... Read More

November 4 is the anniversary of one of the most contentious presidential elections in history (1884) as well as one of the least contentious... Read More
I had nothing left in my emotional tank as I robotically entered the SIXTH and final bank. I stared blankly ahead as I stood in line with a... Read More

Hundreds of Chinese mom-and-pop nail-salon operators gathered behind a police barricade at The New York Times Company headquarters in midtown... Read More

It’s very meaningful that the surgeon Ben Carson appears to be taking the lead in the polling for the GOP nomination — but not in... Read More

Republicans want to cut the lamestream media out of the presidential vetting process. They should be careful what they wish... Read More

When I arrived in New York City 28 years ago to begin my national radio program, my objective was to have the most-listened-to show in the... Read More

Here's some good news that many Americans may not realize: Domestically, we are winning the fight against the carbon pollution that drives... Read More

With their latest subpoena to the Obama administration, House Republicans risk descending into a rabbit hole, albeit a useful one. Lamar... Read More

President Obama and House Speaker Paul Ryan each explored some history this week. And they both argued that bold policies should outshine... Read More

President Obama says he doesn't want to turn the Syria conflict into a proxy war. Unfortunately, that's already happening, as combatants join... Read More

In the Republican presidential race, while Donald Trump’s star has faded a little, he continues to lead nationally in most polls. To be... Read More

Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the 2016 premium data for the “benchmark” plans in the states... Read More

Whatever happens in the White House a year from now, it’s an article of faith that not much will change in the House, where Republicans... Read More

Television personalities Raven-Symoné and Don Lemon appear on ABC and CNN, respectively, but what they said last week about the... Read More

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Foster v. Chatman, a case that challenges the all-too-common practice by which... Read More

It looks like those elitist harridans on ABC's "The View" learned nothing from the national backlash over their mockery of nurse Kelley... Read More

The New York Times published a piece over the weekend about the political prospects of Bernie Sanders, a politician who apparently does... Read More

Over the years, I’ve probably written hundreds of pieces grumbling about the mainstream media’s liberal bias, which is real,... Read More

It was a pitiful whimper from the last of a breed. During last week’s House speaker election, almost all Republicans were voting... Read More

The moment came more than 10 hours into Hillary Clinton’s marathon testimony before the House Benghazi Committee last month. After a... Read More
The House Judiciary Committee and the House itself should approve impeachment charges filed against the head of the Internal Revenue Service,... Read More
THREE DEBATES into the Republican presidential contest, the candidates are staging a revolt. Piling onto CNBC for its mediocre — but... Read More
Modern Americans are probably more comfortable than the people of any other place or time in history with the notion that common ways of... Read More
The U.K. government has begun to flesh out the reforms it would like to see the European Union undertake. Its proposals won't be easy to... Read More

President Obama and House Speaker Paul Ryan each explored some history this week. And they both argued that bold policies should outshine political theater any day of the week. But from there, the two men parted company, spurning their own high-minded advice in favor of wooing their respective political tribes. Obama, whose job approval has hovered for months in the mid-40s, still dominate Read More

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump trashed his primary opponent Ben Carson on ABC's Good Morning America Tuesday morning, saying he does not have the "temperament" or "experience" to have the job. "I think that Ben just doesn't have the experience," Trump told host George Stephanopoulos. "Look, you know, I'm going to make the greatest deals you’ve ever seen on tra Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa—The ground is shifting in the Republican race for the White House, and the Hawkeye State is the epicenter these days. The tension balloon between Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio that was pierced at the debate in Boulder, Colo., last week has spilled its bitter contents into Iowa, where the two have become fierce competitors for establishment support. And with Ben Carson Read More
