Trump Prepares a Pentagon Plucking Committee
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the Trump transition team is drafting an executive order to "create a board to purge general officers." Such a board, the article's subhead warned, "could ...
Give the President the Cabinet He Wants
A president deserves to get the cabinet officials he wants, provided that the nominee is qualified, scandal-free, and not an ideological extremist.
A Terrible Anti-Constitutional Scheme of Recess Appointments
Two days ago president-elect Donald Trump broke the calm of his remarkable post-election silence with this tweet ...
Joe Biden Ensured That the Democrats Were Dead before the Ship Even Sank
Biden’s Arrogance Destroyed His Party It’s an obvious truth — already a commonplace — that Joe Biden deserves an enormous portion of the blame for Kamala Harris’s failure last Tuesday; the only debate ...
Rick Scott’s Bizarre Online Astroturf Campaign for Senate Leader Will Do Him No Favors
Yes, Senator Rick Scott is running for Senate majority leader to replace Mitch McConnell. You know Rick Scott, right? That's right, the charismatic powerhouse of Florida, best known for his ...
Trump Taps Former ICE Director Tom Homan to Oversee Mass Deportations as Border Czar
Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Tom Homan, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will serve as his border czar in his second administration and will be ...
Already with This?
I have no idea to what extent the Rick-Scott-must-be-Senate-majority-leader-or-else! movement is a real thing, rather than the expression of an online spat, but, regardless, some of the claims being ...
Burdened by What Will Be
Democrats ought to begin laying the groundwork for a new political identity if they wish to remain competitive on the national stage moving forward.
The Era of Soft Campus Despotism Is Far from Over
Even if DEI may be on its way out, the political culture that reigns on campus today remains a threat to the mission of the university.
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Marvel’s Latest Is a Slog All Along
Brandon Johnson Wasn’t on the Ballot in Chicago, but Went Down in Flames on Tuesday Anyway Deregulation: Musk and Milei? Glenn Youngkin Tells Trump He Will Serve Out Rest of His Term, Won’t ...
Media Bias Is a Weak Force
Kamala Harris benefited from an inordinate amount of active support from the press. The Media Research Center estimated that roughly four-fifths of all the coverage she received was positive. And that ...
Law and Order Politics are Back
If Democrats don’t get with the program as they did in the 1990s, the electoral beatings will continue.