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As the Boeing Dreamliner that is the Democrats' 2024 presidential campaign falls apart in midair, many of the GOP campaigns I speak to as a political consultant are in a holding pattern, eating their proverbial popcorn and waiting for the dust to ...

Saturday afternoon, a Duane Reade security guard was severely stabbed and a shopper threatened by a knife-wielding thief at one of the chain's midtown Manhattan stores. Roughly 12 hours later, a straphanger was shot in the hand as his train pulled ...

The debate debacle hosted by ABC underscored why the conservative half of America is hostile to "fact-checkers." Object to them, and the left decrees it's because you're hostile to facts. But what conservatives actually oppose is leftist ...

For as long as I can remember, the Left has been sneering at anyone who points out that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. They find the notion almost as unsophisticated and fascistic as flying a revolutionary-era flag. Others dismiss ...

Good morning. It's Friday, July 26, 2024, the day of the week when I offer quotations intended to be uplifting or elucidating. Today's lines are neither, really, but they do tell us something about the state of political discourse in this country ...

Four years ago this month, a young Nigerian Sufi musician named Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. His trial had taken just a few months, and he had no lawyer to defend him. A mob burnt down his home when he was ...

A central character in the hit sitcom "Parks and Recreation" (2009-2015), Leslie Knope serves as deputy director of her office in the city hall of the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. She is also a distinctive sort of liberal. Leslie believes ...

In Milwaukee, Vice President Kamala Harris was the main character, making her campaign debut as the presumptive Democratic nominee and previewing how she will run the race against former President Donald Trump. Notably, Harris did not fall back on ...

With only about 25 days until this damnably necessary act of democracy descends into recriminations and conversations about 2028, Donald Trump is barnstorming across the nation while Kamala Harris sits for interviews designed to generate turnout from ...

Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Darrell Issa are demanding answers from the Secret Service about a possible cover-up and a "troubling pattern of misconduct" surrounding the agency's handling of cocaine discovered in the White House last summer. The two ...