Republicans are seizing on a new collection of emails from senior aides to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, which they say... Read More
On Tuesday, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Donald Trump was riffing on the “horrible” prospect of a Hillary Clinton victory when... Read More
Before he made his reprehensible “Second Amendment people” joke yesterday, Donald Trump said once again that Hillary Clinton... Read More
During the 34 years I served as a Republican elected official in Connecticut, 13 years in the State House of Representatives, and 21 years in... Read More
Over the weekend, the Iranian regime unexpectedly announced it executed its former nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri. As reports of... Read More
DONALD TRUMP'S hard-hitting economic speech in Detroit this afternoon is his big move to regain control of the narrative of the presidential... Read More
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Imagine if Donald Trump’s foreign policy ideas were uttered in a saner tone by someone who seemed to have a little bit of knowledge... Read More
"Isolationists must not prevail in this new debate over foreign policy," warns Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations.... Read More
Venezuela is stuck in a doom loop that's become a death spiral. Its stores are empty, its people are starving, and its government is to... Read More
If Hollywood screenwriters, in their best moments of stimulant-aided inspiration, had tried to write the story of the 2016 U.S. Olympic swim... Read More
The media’s legions of Trump-bashers are finally acknowledging the obvious. And trying their best to justify it. But... Read More
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin got assassinated. His right-wing opponents just kept... Read More
If there was ever a question about which side of the aisle mainstream reporters align with, this election has made it abundantly clear.... Read More
Trump has divided Republicans while Democrats are united behind Hillary. Read More
Most black Americans are Democrats. My mom, dad, and siblings are all staunch Democrats. Yet this black person is not and has never been a... Read More
Donald Trump's campaign reset was barely 24 hours old when he ventured off script and into the familiar territory of controversy,... Read More
The financial markets should start preparing themselves for an October surprise. October, of course, has always been a tricky month for... Read More
The no-longer-presumptive nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties will soon start receiving periodic classified intelligence... Read More
Exactly how damaging the classified information is that was discovered on Hillary Clinton’s server became clear this weekend when the... Read More
For years, ExxonMobil actively advanced the notion that its products had little or no impact on the Earth’s environment. As recently as... Read More
Feeling worried? These days, much of America is. Over the past eight years, Google search rates for anxiety have more than doubled. They... Read More
After seven years of anemic economic growth, working class Americans are facing limited job opportunities, stagnant wages, a diminishing... Read More
For 32 years, a group of Republican and Democratic foreign-policy experts has gathered here each summer to debate strategic issues facing the... Read More
The experts told us that Brexit will not happen. It cannot happen. The consequences will be too severe. The economic fallout too great to... Read More
There’s a lot of interesting data on Europe’s wave of refugees in Pew’slatest report. But here’s a piece of... Read More
Somewhere between the Zika stories, the doping stories and the stories about what a fetid, toxic swamp Rio really is, I got the message: I... Read More
She is standing like a statue, a magnificent statue, in a Carolina Herrera gown, with a baby on one shoulder and a cell phone on the other.... Read More
There’s a reason US economic growth all but flat-lined these past eight years, and Donald Trump put his finger on it Monday:... Read More
“HILLARY WANTS to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment,” Donald Trump said Tuesday. “By the way, and if she... Read More
The European Union and Nato face a significant challenge from the unfolding diplomatic rapprochement between Russia and Turkey. For... Read More
Nobody said quitting the European Union would be easy. U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has declared that "Brexit means Brexit," but Britain... Read More
After a week of unforced errors that widened a rift with fellow Republicans, and new polls showing him losing ground with voters, Donald Trump sought to turn a new page Monday by focusing squarely on policy.In a speech to the Detroit Economic Club that was frequently interrupted by protesters, Trump outlined his economic vision and pledged to work with House Republicans on a new tax plan that woul Read More
Last week was a bad week for Donald Trump, to put it mildly. Read More
Michelle Obama, the reluctant campaigner, may find herself the most-requested Democratic surrogate of 2016 thanks to her knockout speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The fall schedule of FLOTUS, as the first lady is known, has not been set, but she will be championing Hillary Clinton’s historic run for the Oval Office. “The first lady is looking forward to cam Read More
