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Presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses while Ben Carson looks on during the CNBC Republican Presidential Debat on Oct. 28, 2015, in Boulder, Colo.

Imagining a world without polls

May 11, 2019 at 2:45 a.m.

What if the polls just stopped working? Admittedly, this needs work as a plot device for a Stephen King novel. But for politics, it might be pretty awesome. Last week,...

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz take part in the presidential debates at the Reagan Library on Sept. 16, 2015 in Simi Valley, Calif.

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are outflanking the GOP field

August 21, 2019 at 5:58 p.m.

Politics is a breeding ground for martial metaphors, starting with the word "campaign" itself. Politicians "under fire" "take flak" as their consultants sit in "war rooms" and launch ad "blitzes"...

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson smiles during a campaign rally at West Memphis High School on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, in West Memphis, Ark.

Being a minority and a conservative is not a contradiction

August 21, 2019 at 5:58 p.m.

Here's something you may not know: Dr. Ben Carson is black. Of course, I'm being a little cute here. The only way you wouldn't know he's black is if you...

Our family structure gives us our identity, our language and our expectations about how the world should work, writes columnist Jonah Goldberg.

Why family structure is so important

May 11, 2019 at 2:43 a.m.

It's been a good month for champions of the traditional family, but don't expect the family wars to be ending any time soon. In recent weeks, a barrage of new...

Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant to former President Bill Clinton and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, to face questions from the Republican-led House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

Sidney Blumenthal: Hillary Clinton’s enabler-in-chief

May 11, 2019 at 2:42 a.m.

It's an ancient story: An innocent idealist sets out to change the world and in the process becomes what he hates most. "He who fights monsters should see to it...

Vice President of the United States Joe Biden speaks on stage during the 2015 Concordia Summit at Grand Hyatt New York on Oct. 1, 2015 in New York City.

How a Joe Biden bid could help Hillary Clinton’s campaign

August 21, 2019 at 5:55 p.m.

The scuttlebutt in Washington is that Vice President Joe Biden is going to throw his hat into the presidential race, which means there is at least a 50 percent chance...

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gives a speech at the East West Center on the campus of the University of Hawaii in November 2011 in Honolulu as she attends the APEC Summit. Clinton pushed hard dozens of times for the Pacific Rim trade deal she now opposes as a presidential candidate.

Flip-flops show Hillary Clinton is long on ambition, short on principles

May 11, 2019 at 2:40 a.m.

Hillary Rodham Clinton revealed Wednesday that she opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, providing just the latest evidence that she is little more than political ambition wrapped in a pantsuit....

President Barack Obama speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Oct. 1, 2015, about the shooting at the community college in Oregon.

Why Obama prefers politicizing to actual politics

May 11, 2019 at 2:39 a.m.

President Barack Obama was right. He was right when, just a few hours after the horrible shooting in Oregon, he decried the fact that such slaughters have become "routine." He...

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich speaks with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at the Iowa Freedom Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 24.

To replace John Boehner, why not Newt Gingrich for speaker?

May 11, 2019 at 2:38 a.m.

Almost exactly seven years ago, House Speaker John Boehner said of the Wall Street bailout bill, "I think this thing is a crap sandwich" — but he'd vote for it...

Sean Kirkpatrick of Chicago (left); Phoenix VA Health Care System Addiction Therapist Dr. Brandon Coleman; VA Caribbean Healthcare System Credentialing Program Support Joseph Colon, and Overton Brooks VA Medical Center Licensed Clinical Social Worker Shea Wilkes are sworn on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on "Improving VA Accountability: Examining First-Hand Accounts of Department of Veterans Affairs Whistleblowers."

How to fix the VA? Get rid of it

May 11, 2019 at 2:37 a.m.

There is only one guaranteed way to get fired from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Falsifying records won't do it. Prescribing obsolete drugs won't do it. Cutting all manner of...

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