This week, the Republican National Committee has been meeting to hammer out all of the policy provisions of its platform to be unveiled at the GOP convention in Milwaukee beginning on July 15. Generally speaking, that isn’t a process that…
The Democrat Party has a serious problem on their hands regarding their ambiguous nature of belief regarding Israel and the Palestinians. This stands to cost Democrats much more than the GOP will lose from disagreement over Ukraine. This division, and…
We’re down to the VP shortlist when it comes to who Donald Trump will pick as his running mate at the Republican National Convention. In today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, host Melissa Mackenzie and guest David Catron discuss David’s latest…
For a governor of a deep-red state — with two Republican senators, GOP control of all five statewide offices, bicameral Republican supermajorities, and an all-Republican congressional delegation — Utah’s Spencer Cox has maintained a remarkable liberal streak. Cox’s allergic aversion…
Whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence is taking over the internet. Content creators use it to generate images, videos, and text, programmers use it to generate code, and writers use it to generate illustrations. But AI is trained…
Former board member and long-time conservative writer and thinker James Piereson joins hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast. They discuss the question of the fourth great political revolution in the United States and…
And here comes the “No Labels” crowd. Over there in the Wall Street Journal comes this from former Reagan Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. The headline: Reagan Would Never Vote for Trump He also didn’t care much for Biden. Like me,…
Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday his retirement from the Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate. He leaves his post when this session of Congress ends but indicates he remains as a sort of backbencher with standing, à la Nancy Pelosi in…
I have been waiting for a very long time to write this column, and yet I can’t quite summon up the joy and relief I thought I’d get out of it. We’re speaking, of course, about the long-awaited denouement of…