Category: Politics

Is Bernie Sanders really going to be the Democrats’ presidential nominee? It may seem strange for me to highlight any doubts on that score. Sanders has already achieved something no prior candidate ever has — he won the popular vote in each of the first three contests — and his margin of victory has only […]

Democrats are freaking out that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the tentative frontrunner for their party’s presidential nomination, may not only lose to President Trump in November, but also reverse their midterm election gains in the suburbs. The latest bit of evidence is an internal poll circulated by rival Michael Bloomberg’s campaign, suggesting just that. These […]

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Bernie Sanders may be poised to walk away with the Democratic nomination for president, but you would hardly know it from the way his competitors acted in Wednesday night’s Las Vegas debate. Sanders, who all measures indicate will win big in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, also is looking pretty good on the national front. Multiple new […]

I win no prizes for civic engagement. I vote regularly, serve on juries when asked, and have donated to candidates that I believed in. But I have never engaged in the serious, deep activity that either the ancients or earlier generations of Americans would recognize as civic: serving on a school board, or a town […]

While managing to avoid such blasé matters as our half-dozen Middle Eastern wars, the Democratic debate in Nevada on Wednesday evening did hit on the very important question of whether the supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are exceptionally mean on the internet. In his most obvious whopper of the night, Sanders said “99.9 percent” […]

It’s primary season, and most political coverage has been obsessed with who is going to win and take on Donald Trump in November. Policy issues which got wide discussion in 2019, like the merits of Medicare-for-all, have been pushed off the front burner of the news stove (though it did get some typically superficial discussion […]

Back in 2016, when Donald Trump had shockingly claimed the GOP nomination but still wasn’t assured of the support of Republican elites and conservative intellectuals, “The Flight 93 Election” essay appeared in The Claremont Review of Books. The author — writing under the pseudonym “Decius” but later revealed to be conservative writer and activist Michael […]

Electric cars are the wave of the future, if you believe the marketing of the big automobile companies. Kia, Nissan, Hyundai, Volkswagen, Chevrolet, and of course Tesla have electric models on sale this year, as well as luxury brands Audi, Porsche, and BMW. It seems likely that in the next few decades, gas- or diesel-powered […]

President Trump has not had an easy time appointing new members to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. His latest pick, Judy Shelton, doesn’t look like she’ll improve the streak: Shelton got grilled by the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, and several Republicans as well as the committee’s Democrats were left underwhelmed. Both Sens. Patrick […]