John Samples
Both of our serious presidential candidates present themselves as mavericks willing to tell the truth to the American people. Here…
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-minded American Is Tearing Us Apart By Bill Bishop (Houghton Mifflin, 384 pages,…
Much has been made about Barack Obama’s difficulties attracting the votes of conservative Democrats. Some say his problems go back…
Forty four years ago this week Lyndon Baines Johnson traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to deliver a speech that outlined…
We are often told that presidential campaigns should be about “the issues.” But voters will not be enacting laws in…
In the middle of his now famous speech on race and politics in America, Sen. Barack Obama claimed that his…
The day he lost the California primary Barack Obama said his campaign has unified Americans of all backgrounds in pursuit…
Suddenly, John McCain has become the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. His support in national polls among Republican voters…
Last week a staunch Republican friend came back from Capitol Hill with discouraging news. “I can’t believe,” he said, “how…
Eugene McCarthy will always be remembered as the man who “toppled LBJ” in 1968. His campaign for the Democratic presidential…
