Following this week’s primaries, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have both attained enough delegates to be their respective parties’ presidential nominees this fall. Barring some sort of unforeseen event — a debilitating hospitalization, an ultra-expedited criminal prosecution,…
Fifty years ago, March 1, 1974, marked the beginning of the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency. That’s the day the grand jury’s indictment was made public, naming seven of Nixon’s top aides in the alleged cover-up of those responsible for…
On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th president of the United States. He closed his inaugural speech with these memorable words: “Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The…
We spoke to Roger Kaplan, the regular American Spectator tennis correspondent, on the subject of Presidents Day, who admitted to feeling peeved by the lack of response from the White House to the offer from his organization, the East Side…
WASHINGTON — How bad is the situation at the Southwest border? I attended a hearing Thursday of the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on the consequences of the current “catch and release” policies to observe…
I don’t know about you, but I’m all worn out with this GOAT thing. Every category has a greatest of all time. And while it makes for pregnant discussion, it does get a little exhausting arguing whether Michael Jordan or…
On the one hand, Donald Trump, the former and perhaps future president of the United States, seems uniquely hapless. He lost an election unlike any other before — one in which insecure mail-in balloting proliferated, many states made constitutionally dubious…
As we look back on the events of the early 21st century, we can recall with amusement the oft-expressed concerns about “polarization.” That is, the then-popular worry that the deep divisions within the United States were harmful to the American…
Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs star and host of How America Works, has recently unloaded on Gen Z, the age cohort born somewhere between the mid-1990s through 2010 and sometimes known as “zoomers.” Rowe said that the importance of hard work is on the way out,…