Trump made a colossal tactical blunder by telling his supporters to fight vote fraud in the streets. That led to last week's excesses, and... Read More

Kingmaker Stacey Abrams Has Unfinished Business

Stephen Crockett Jr., The Root

Refuse to Be Silenced

Kurt Schlichter, Townhall

Parler's gone for now, the victim of a conspiracy to silence, but it will return. The fascists can try, but they can't shut us up forever.... Read More

The Perfect Symbol of the Trump Years

David Gergen, CNN

David Gergen writes that the new, 7-feet-tall fence now surrounding the Capitol should eventually find a home in the Smithsonian. Pieces of... Read More

Trump's Final Strategic Shift in the Middle East

Jared Szuba, Al-Monitor

The decision caps the outgoing administration's efforts to build a regional defense arrangement to counter Iran. Read More

The Top Global Conflicts to Watch in 2021

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What TV Can Tell Us About How the Trump Show Ends

Joanna Weiss, Politico

More than reality TV, the Trump presidency resembled an antihero drama. Here's what we might expect next. Read More

The Biden Stimulus Makes No Economic Sense

Allison Schrager, City Journal

The Biden stimulus is crammed with goodies but makes no economic sense. Read More

California's Economy Points the Way for Biden

Tyson & Mendonca, Project Syndicate

President-elect Joe Biden’s call to “build back better” after the pandemic is an invitation to renovate America’s... Read More

Trump: A Wrecking Ball With Remarkable Accomplishments

Ari Fleischer, FOX News

President Trump entered office in 2017 as a political wrecking ball. He leaves the presidency Wednesday as an even bigger wrecking ball. In... Read More

The Importance of Twitter's Trump Ban

Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker

After Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s account, earlier this month, the reactions were quick, ubiquitous, and mostly... Read More

Dems Are Spooked by Efforts to Examine Election Fraud

Lee Smith, Epoch Times

Big Tech, social media, and the press used the violence on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 as a pretext to purge their platforms of conservative... Read More

Why the Right and Left Both Want George Orwell on Their Side

Laura Beers, CNN

Historian Laura Beers puts a growing number of references to George Orwell by prominent US Republicans in context, writing that while Orwell... Read More

America's New Corporate Tyranny

Michael Lind, Tablet

The American political and legal systems are working just fine, despite a few hiccups. Meanwhile, American corporations are depriving... Read More

Republican-Corporate Divorce a Blessing for Party's Future

Sohrab Ahmari, NY Post

November’s election revealed that the class realignment of our two parties is solidifying. Democrats have increasingly emerged as the... Read More

Build Back Better Can Be Biden's American-Made Legacy

Scott Paul, RealClearPolitics

The New Deal. The Interstate Highway System. The Great Society. When our nation’s leaders aim high the names of their accomplishments... Read More

Biden Shouldn't Reverse Trump's Mideast Policy

James Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs

By keeping American aims limited, Trump avoided his predecessors' pitfalls while still advancing American interests in the Middle East. Read More

Will Cheney and the Neocons Go Third Party?

Julie Kelly, American Greatness

The conflict between neoconservatives and the Trump base sets up a major battle for which faction will control the Republican Party in the... Read More

How Biden Can Calm the Storm

Abigail Esman, Slate

Because so many of us could use some words of optimism right now, here are mine: Joe Biden will make a... Read More

Conservatives Should Learn From the Left

Heather Higgins, RealClearPolitics

As the political right struggles to regroup after the horrible events at the U.S. Capitol, it should learn from the masters. The left has a... Read More

There's No Argument Against Impeaching Trump Again

Hayes Brown, MSNBC

President Donald Trump is cruising toward history as the first president to be impeached twice. And no matter what you may hear about... Read More

How Could Trump 'Incite' a Pre-Planned Attack?

Matt Vespa, Townhall

President Trump was impeached yesterday by a mostly party-line vote. Ten House Republicans did cross the picket line to back the Democratic... Read More

How Art Offers Refuge From--and a Reframing of--Unrest

Sabrina Schaeffer, RCP

My father was a psychiatrist. Some also used to refer to him as a “Renaissance man” since he taught philosophy and was a trained... Read More

Biden's Stimulus Plan Will Harm Those Who Need Most Help

Washington Examiner

If you thought help for the coronavirus was on the way, think again. President-elect Joe Biden's plan to provide economic relief is going to... Read More

Climate Change Is the Greatest Crisis of Our Crisis-Filled Era

Los Angeles Times

Each of the last seven years has been among the 10 warmest on record. The United Nations warns rightly we are not doing enough to deal with... Read More

China's Ambition: Hong Kong and the World

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Is Israel's Arab Joint List Breaking Up Ahead of March Elections?

Al-Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu campaigns in Nazareth for the Arab vote. Read More

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Why Latest Impeachment Gambit Proved a Farce

Victor Davis Hanson, Amer. Greatness

What is this latest impeachment gambit really about? Of course, it was a Parthian shot to discredit President Trump’s supporters. Read More

Trump's Second Impeachment Defends the Constitution

Josh Chafetz, NBC News

Republican arguments against impeachment misunderstand history, the intentions of the Founding Fathers and the law. Read More

Big Tech's Conservative Purge Changes the Free Speech Debate

Alfredo Ortiz, RCP

Big Tech’s coordinated silencing of conservative voices, including President Trump’s, signals a crossing of the Rubicon in the... Read More

It's Time to Tune Out Trump's Current Supporters for Good

Alisyn Camerota, CNN

After spending the last five years talking to avid Trump supporters, CNN's Alisyn Camerota writes it is time to tune out the President's... Read More

The Media's Cynical 'Sedition' Smear

David Harsanyi, National Review

The term is being casually flung about, with little distinction between wrong-headed lawmakers and the rioters themselves. Read More

Capitol Riots Happened Just Like the Right Threatened

Rebecca Traister, NY Mag

It's not just Trump — some on the right have supported violence for years now; the party has built its power on them. Read More

Wait, What Left-Wing Violence?

Daniel Flynn, American Spectator

Fuhgeddaboudism demands that we erase context and develop amnesia for not only history but for what happened every night last summer. Read More

Biden Needs to Move Fast and Fix Stuff

Jordan Weissmann, Slate

Or his ability to help Americans will be doomed from the start. Read More

2009 Redux? Biden Cites 'Urgent' Need for Massive Stimulus

Philip Wegmann, RCP

The economy was bad, and the White House planned to go big. On the day the mammoth $800 billion Recovery Act became law, however, the new... Read More

Democrats Owe Their Senate Control to Black Voters

Theodore Johnson, Guardian

It's also worth remembering that the success of candidates like Raphael Warnock is a product of years of voter engagement Read More

The Trump Era Isn't Over

Daniel McCarthy, The Spectator

Could the Republican party mandarins, gathering once again in a mythical 'smoke-filled room', rig the 2024 primaries to stop Trump? Read More

Trump Refuses to Distance Himself From Election Lies

Aaron Rupar, Vox

The president refuses to distance himself from the election lies that motivated the Capitol riot. Read More

We Need the Electoral College Now More Than Ever

Jennifer C. Braceras, RCP

If you’ve ever wondered why America needs the Electoral College, the state-by-state process for electing a president, look no further... Read More

There's No Unity Without Accountability

Amanda Marcotte, Salon

Trump and his mob believe they'll never pay the piper Read More

Trump Declassifying FBI Memos Exposing Steele's Motivations

John Solomon, JTN

Once-secret documents will show Steele told FBI he leaked Russia collusion narrative to counteract Clinton email scandal. Read More

U.S. Mustn't Follow Weimar Germany and Ancient Rome

Andreas Kluth, Bloomberg

In its moment of crisis, the American republic can find warnings but also inspiration in the past. Read More

Chuck Yeager Makes His Last Flight

Mike Pence, FOX News

Last Dec. 7, the greatest aviator in American history ascended into the heavens. On Friday, joined by my family on Air Force Two, it will be... Read More

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They Can't Leave the Bay Area Fast Enough

Nellie Bowles, New York Times

As a tech era draws to an end, more workers and companies are packing up. What comes next? Read More

New Study: Lockdowns Didn’t Stop Spread Of Covid After All

Ed Morrissey, Hot Air

As always, approach all stories that headline the word “study” with some caution. Newsweek’s report on a new... Read More

Biden's Covid Vaccine Plan Targets Communities of Color

Alice Ollstein, Politico

Rollout would also take aim at vaccine skepticism and misinformation Read More

Collective Guilt and the New Witch Hunt

James Bovard, The American Conservative

Hatred is at an all-time high in Washington. Will Congress step in to become the arbiters of truth? Read More

Why This Impeachment Matters

Errol Louis, New York Daily News

By nearly every standard we can measure in a democracy, President Trump will leave office next week as a disastrous failure. His rejection by... Read More

Joe Biden: Impeachment's Biggest Loser

Liz Peek, RealClearPolitics

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, there they go again. Frantic to extinguish any chance Donald Trump will ever again run for office,... Read More

Abandon Trump? In GOP Ranks, the MAGA Mind-Set Prevails

Lerer & Epstein, NYT

As President Trump prepares to exit the White House, his ideas, including falsehoods and conspiracy theories, continue to exert a... Read More

Trump's Support Is More About Policies Than Personality

David Marcus, Federalist

Anti-Trump conservatives think they are poised to take back the Republican Party after he leaves office. They are sorely mistaken. Read More

No To Policing the World

Matt Purple, The Spectator

Biden's foreign policy is rooted in the mythology of the Cold War, when there was an antithetical global adversary in the Soviet... Read More

Pompeo Was the Worst Secretary of State in American History

Fred Kaplan, Slate

Trump's most fervid lapdog is in a class of his own. Read More

Israel Must Prepare for Biden's Appeasement of Iran

Ruthie Blum, Jerusalem Post

Israel needs to prepare for this new reality where its ability to combat Iranian forces and proxy groups is concerned. Read More

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Vote to Impeach Imperils Liz Cheney's GOP Leadership Role

Among the 232 votes in the House of Representatives to impeach Donald Trump a second time were 10 cast by Republicans -- and now the GOP has a messy church fight on its hands. That’s because one of the 10 breaking ranks was Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who chairs the GOP conference. The immediate question for House Republicans is whether Cheney should remain in that post after voting to impeach Tr Read More

Presidential Transition

Biden's Dilemma: Unity or Impeachment?

Congressional Democrats’ rush toward impeachment has put Joe Biden in a difficult position before he’s even taken the oath of office. Does he follow the desires of his fellow Democratic Party leaders to punish Donald Trump for stirring up an angry mob that ran amok at the U.S. Capitol? Or does Biden heed his own oft-repeated campaign promise to weigh the desires of those Americans who voted ag Read More

Analysis & Commentary

Pruitt: A Black Republican's Georgia Autopsy

Almost two years ago, Rush Limbaugh call screener James Golden (also known as “Bo Snerdley”) and I met with a major Republican donor who claimed to be interested in supporting our organization, New Journey PAC. He expressed interest in one of our warnings — that Georgia would turn blue in 2020. More importantly, the donor wanted to know how to prevent this catastrophe. James and I made th Read More