What is Vice President Mike Pence thinking?
Dear Vice President Pence, I hope you don't mind me writing to you like this, but as one of those conservatives who was somewhat reassured by Donald Trump's decision to...
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Why the Trump White House isn’t leak-proof
Historians will tell you that Adolf Hitler was not plagued by leakers and anonymous sources within his government. Joseph Goebbels did not routinely race to the Frankfurter Zeitung to plant...
Death penalty opponents are being dishonest in their arguments
The debate over the death penalty can be infuriatingly dishonest. Consider the April 17 broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Special Report with Bret Baier" (a show on which I am...
Donald Trump is working from the lame-duck playbook
One of the (many) things that makes the Trump presidency so hard to read is that the chapters are all out of order. Traditionally, during the transition period, presidents-elect are...
Must supporters let Trump be Trump?
Like a passenger on a sinking ship, the president has been throwing one longstanding position after another overboard like so much dead weight. His closest advisers, biggest boosters and some...
Paul Ryan a convenient scapegoat for Trump’s failure
Paul Ryan did it. That's the argument many of the louder voices on the right are shouting. In the story they tell, the speaker of the House is fully responsible...
Republicans are finding it hard to play defense
Monday's House Intelligence Committee hearing, billed as the first public inquiry into Russia's election meddling, was a spectacle with an obvious lesson: Offense is easier than defense. House Republicans had...
A leisurely drive down the wrong road
"We all want progress," C.S. Lewis wrote, "but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the...
CPAC’s odd tango with Milo Yiannopoulos
On Saturday, Matt Schlapp, the head of the American Conservative Union, which sponsors the premier conservative confab, the Conservative Political Action Conference, wrote on Twitter: "We think free speech includes...
Trump’s ‘passionate intensity’ has political consequences
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide...