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President Donald Trump watches as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy administers the judicial oath to Judge Neil Gorsuch during a re-enactment in the Rose Garden of the White House White House in Washington, April 10, 2017.

The importance of true checks and balances in government

May 31, 2019 at 4:12 p.m.

During almost every Supreme Court nomination battle, I try to make the same point: These fights wouldn't be nearly so ugly if we didn't invest so much power in the...

Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, takes the stage to speak at the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and Democracy at the Grand Hyatt, Saturday, May 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

There’s no rush for Giuliani to get his facts straight

May 31, 2019 at 4:14 p.m.

If there were any doubt that the multifront battle over the Russia investigation has become the political equivalent of a Tong war, Rudy Giuliani removed it. The former mayor of...

Ladies wearing cheongsams walk around Minghu Wetland Park on July 29, 2016 in Liupanshui, Guizhou Province of China.

Cultural-appropriation outrage shows people are desperate to be offended

May 31, 2019 at 4:15 p.m.

I am very critical of China's government. It's corrupt, authoritarian and in some respects totalitarian. I have deep reservations about Chinese culture as well. The Chinese government bans sex-selective abortions...

President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, April 6, 2017, after the U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday night in retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians.

Trump’s message to Syria is muddled

May 31, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

President Donald Trump was right to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad with airstrikes on Friday. Some have said that the bombing campaign didn't go far enough, and I'm sympathetic to...

President Donald Trump waves as he makes his way to board Marine One on the South Lawn before departing from the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 29, 2018.

Trumpism is a wretched wannabe of Reagan-style populism

May 31, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

For a while, a set of liberals has argued that Donald Trump isn't an aberration from other Republican presidents. Now, some surprising conservatives, including friends and colleagues of mine, are...

In this March 23, 2018, photo, a copy of the $1.3 trillion spending bill is stacked on a table in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington.

GOP, not Trump, owns this spending bill

May 31, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

President Donald Trump signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending deal Friday, averting another government shutdown. Written largely in secret and passed without any time to read its 2,232 pages, the...

President Donald Trump greets Speaker of the House Paul Ryan during the National Republican Congressional Committee March Dinner at the National Building Museum on March 20, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Republicans may come to regret their silence on Trump

May 31, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

I don’t usually dispense relationship advice in this column. But the adage about marriage is often true of politics: What is not said is more destructive than what is said....

Former US President advisor Steve Bannon gives a press conference during the French far-right Front National (FN) party annual congress on March 10, 2018 at the Grand Palais in Lille, north of France.

Let’s hope Bannon never returns from his European tour

May 31, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

One of the things that motivated my old friend Andrew Breitbart was his righteous indignation at being called a racist. That's a running theme in his book, “Righteous Indignation.” “Andrew...

Best Actress Frances McDormand, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," backstage at the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.

Should Hollywood accept McDormand’s inclusion-rider dare?

May 31, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

Go for it, Hollywood. You probably didn’t watch the Academy Awards — most people didn’t — but you might have caught a bit of Frances McDormand’s acceptance speech for her...

There is no ‘right side of history’

May 31, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

Tuesday marked the 10-year anniversary of the passing of my old boss, William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review (where I am a senior editor). This is not...

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