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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

Clinton won't visit Mexico before the election

Clinton told ABC that Trump "did choke" during his visit because of the wall discussion discrepancy...  Read more

Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly dies at 92

Phyllis Schlafly, who led the social conservative movement for decades and endorsed Donald Trump in March, died Monday at the age of 92...  Read more

Trump's Reaganesque Meeting With the Mexican President

"Trump just failed his first foreign policy test," tweeted Hillary Clinton after Donald Trump returned from his meeting with the Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto...  Read more

White House denies Iran had 'secret' exemptions for nuke pact

The White House is denying that the Obama administration and other Western powers agreed to give Iran "secret" exemptions from key provisions of the nuclear pact to help it meet a January implementation deadline...  Read more

House Armed Services chairman blasts Obama for military pay cut

"Few people are more deserving of a full pay raise than our men and women in uniform," said House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry...  Read more