Patrick O'Hannigan

In an election where pilots face off against lawyers, one major party thinks we citizens are gifted, and the other…

Even the dimmest Democratic strategist now realizes that beating a “lifelong” Yankees fan with roots in Illinois may not have…

Ralph Waldo Emerson was only half right: While foolish consistency moonlights as the hobgoblin of little minds, it is also…

Avoiding chaos and deferring to mature judgment are worthy strategies for any party seeking to govern a freedom-loving country, but…

With only three years in the U.S. Senate on the federal portion of his resume, Barack Obama’s legislative record would…

Being an American of Irish and Mexican heritage has certain advantages, and one of them is that I do not…

Barack Obama, John Edwards, and Hillary Clinton have coasted in one important respect so far this election season: none of…

In a November 11 speech to 3,500 delegates attending the General Assembly of United Jewish Communities in Nashville, Tennessee, Democratic…

Lightning strobes the gray sky and thunder booms like artillery over parts of North Carolina as I write this, but…

Naomi Wolf has diplomas from Yale University and New College, Oxford, but as another feminist once noted, she is “an…