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Across Europe, a familiar pattern is hardening into something more troubling: Young voters are drifting toward political extremes.

Even before President Trump's National Security Strategy was released, European governments were nearly frantic with worry that the United States was no longer a reliable ally.

In the final days before Christmas, the Washington establishment tried to check off an item on its Christmas wish list: Make it easier for America to go to war with Russia.

Europe occasionally needs a good talking to and a reminder that the United States of America is not subservient to the continent.

"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." -- Isaiah 7:14 ...

Lawyer Erin Morrow Hawley has reportedly been in contact with the White House to express interest in the judicial vacancy on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

World leaders were a bit premature in announcing the death of internal combustion.

At many of President Trump's 2016 rallies, he warned of the dangers of "The Snake." Eleven months into his second term, Mr. Trump would be wise to heed his own warning.

Rob Reiner played King Sturdevant -- a hustler and minor league football quarterback for the Southern Illinois Warriors -- in a 1976 episode of "The Rockford Files" called "The No-Cut Contract," where he steals the show from its star, James Garner.

For years, Republicans have warned that Washington's spending habits imperil America's future. Yet too often, when the moment arrives to impose real discipline, our party blinks.