The fight to define conservatism
It's hard to believe that the United States, having resisted the siren song of socialism during its entire 20th-century heyday (the only major democracy to do so), should suddenly succumb...
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The state of the presidency: Spent
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's Tuesday night address to Congress was less about the state of the union than the state of the presidency. And the state of this presidency...
Obama’s serial appeasement has backfired
If you're going to engage in a foreign policy capitulation, might as well do it when everyone is getting tanked and otherwise occupied. Say, New Year's Eve. Here's the story....
Food fads: Make it gluten-full, please
When the federal government's 1980 "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" warned about the baleful effects of saturated fats, public interest activists joined the fight and managed to persuade major food companies...
Legacy or bust: Obama’s fictional agreements
Last Saturday, Barack Obama gained the second jewel in his foreign policy triple crown: the Paris climate accord. It follows his Iran nuclear deal and awaits but the closing of...
Krauthammer: Donald Trump steers GOP to the absurd
So how exactly does this work, Donald Trump's plan to keep America safe from Islamic terrorism by barring entry to all Muslims? He explained it Tuesday on TV. The immigration...
The Syrian immigration cul-de-sac
The Syrian refugee debate has become a national embarrassment. It begins with a president, desperate to deflect attention from the collapse of his foreign policy, retreating to his one safe...
Obama’s phony war
WASHINGTON — Tell me: What's a suicide bomber doing with a passport? He's not going anywhere. And, though I'm not a religious scholar, I doubt that a passport is required...
Latest debate is turning point for GOP
The Republican debate on CNBC was riveting, the way a train wreck is riveting: You can't take your eyes off it. The Fox Business Network debate was merely satisfying. A...
GOP candidates: You won, quit whining
Where do Republicans get that special talent for turning gold to dross? They score an electoral "massacre" (The Economist) in 2014 and, a year later, what do they have to...