Thursday, several media and other entities that had held off calling Arizona for Joe Biden did so, as it began to look as though the president’s vote totals weren’t going to catch up to the former vice president’s there. That…
We are living out the first act of The Godfather. Remember the cliffhanger. Near Christmas, like today, five Mafia families execute a coordinated attack on Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), riddling him with bullets. In the immediate aftermath, there is…
This morning at my site I had a post explaining the misery, at least from my perspective, of watching the American political system devolve into failure this week: My mood isn’t the result of despondency that the election is lost….
Late Tuesday night, it appeared that Donald Trump had won reelection rather decisively. Not only had he scored a historic win in Florida (about which more later), but the results being reported at 11 p.m. Eastern showed the president with…
I have discussed this elsewhere, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has made the same point over here at Fox News. It was October 27, 1964. Ronald Reagan, then an actor and private citizen, had been asked to give a…
Most Americans of all stripes flatter themselves that somehow we Americans are better than others. The sense that we are smarter, more civilized, built a greater country, just have something in us that makes us better because we live here….
Washington I do not like being wrong. Looking back on the journalism of the last few years, I have concluded this makes me one weird journalist. Most journalists, in fact most commentators, seem to prefer to be wrong — spectacularly,…
We were beginning to worry about Roger Kaplan’s mental state, especially as he keeps muttering about tennis being a sport for head cases, so we suggested he write up his take on the coming elections. His answer — “The ATP…
In July, Ezekiel Emanuel — the bioethicist and COVID adviser to Joe Biden — signed an open letter insisting that the country be locked down again — only this time, in an even more draconian manner than before, including significant…