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Experts: $1.7 Billion Cash Payment to Iran May Not Have Been the First

The Obama administration may have facilitated several cash payments to Iran even before its controversial $1.7 billion transfer to the country, potentially putting even more liquid money in the hands of nefarious actors backed by the Islamic Republic...  Read more

Obamacare will be the next president's first crisis

Next White House faces a crumbling individual insurance market — without sufficient support in Congress...  Read more

Giuliani: Trump now believes Obama a natural born U.S. citizen

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani declared Thursday night that Donald Trump believes that President Obama was born in Hawaii and is an natural born American citizen...  Read more

Don’t be surprised if Aleppo flub helps Gary Johnson rise to 15%

It’s just a guess, but it seemed MSNBC’s Mike Barnacle (a Hillary Clinton shill) was out to embarrass Gary Johnson when he asked, “What would you do if you were elected, about Aleppo?”...  Read more

Trump: School choice is a human right

Donald Trump made his newest pitch to minority voters by promising to invest in school choice...  Read more

Party Dysfunction Gave America Trump and Clinton

During Tuesday's WEEKLY STANDARD podcast, I made a point that requires some amplification...  Read more

Trump makes massive gains among independents, millennials, & minorities

Donald Trump has had an excellent couple of weeks...  Read more

Gary Johnson pulling more votes away from Hillary than Trump

Republicans usually despise the Libertarian Party and Constitution Party candidates because they pull votes away from the GOP — Democrats usually feel the same way about the Green Party...  Read more

Why the polls are tightening up

Maybe Hillary Clinton isn't going to be elected president after all...  Read more

Trump embraces mainstream conservative goals in military buildup plans

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cited a dangerous deterioration in America's military supremacy. "History shows that when America is not prepared is when the danger is by far the greatest," he said...  Read more

Who's the Greatest?

One noteworthy feature of the ideological divide in Washington is how immune the country’s foreign policy practitioners have been from the disfiguring aspects of hyper-partisanship...  Read more

Election 2016 and the rampant abuse of data

All of this data is useless at best and dishonest and misleading at worst...  Read more

Senate Dems block Zika bill for third time

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a $1.1 billion Zika funding measure for the third time...  Read more

3rd-party candidates get almost no TV news coverage, study says

Despite the fact that Libertarian Gary Johnson is polling higher than any third-party candidate in the last 20 years, he has little chance of gaining enough support to make it into the upcoming presidential debates...  Read more

Trump should refuse to debate without Johnson and Stein

Is it always in the interest of the two major-party candidates to exclude third-party candidates?...  Read more

Obama's Climate Change Diversion

The president endures humiliation at the G20 for a toothless deal...  Read more

A guide to Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal for people who hate to read

The FBI produced another major document dump about their investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server, including their interview with the Democratic nominee...  Read more

One-in-three young voters support Gary Johnson

Gary Johnson is no longer a third-party candidate, not to millennials anyway...  Read more