Jon Cassidy

Wisconsin has created a new type of political supervillain by combining the most reprehensible attributes of this nation’s two most…

Governor Rick Perry is clearly not guilty of the charges in his indictment. I sure am, though. Anybody want to…

In Plato’s famous model, the three elements of the well-ordered state correspond to the three aspects of the soul, with…

Never figured I’d say this, but congratulations are due to ThinkProgress, the lefty news site that usually reads like a…

The news has been filled with their stories—children just seven or nine or eleven years old, on their own, faced…

If you haven’t watched John Oliver’s new show Last Week Tonight on HBO, let me recommend a few bits. There’s…

He fondly loved, for instance, his position as a “persecuted” man and, so to speak, an “exile.” There is a…

When does life begin? The question has vexed society for decades, but the Supreme Court has finally settled on a…

Last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch decided to stop carrying George Will’s column after Media Matters for America and the…

The lesson of Dave Brat’s victory over Eric Cantor last week is being missed: In all pundits’ talk about immigration,…