Democratic leaders increasingly describe themselves as the “big-tent party.” Gavin Newsom , the apotheosis of a political chameleon, has argued for a Democratic coalition stretching “from Manchin to Mamdani.  Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer calls the party’s big...

With the election coming up and the vitriol among politicians increasing, I thought the readership might enjoy a change of pace. A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without an apparent causal connection. Most of us experience...

Where Donald Trump will rank in the pantheon of American presidents remains unknown. But a strong argument can be made that he will be remembered for two defining traits: Proactivity and the use of Soft Power. When Trump went to Riyadh in 2025, he did not lead with...

There is a growing tendency in modern political discourse to reduce extraordinarily complex issues to catchy slogans.  "No Human is Illegal,” "Trans Rights!" "Defund the police," these phrases are designed to fit on a bumper sticker—not to explain reality. The problem...

Members of the nation’s two largest teachers’ unions, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), voted for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump by a roughly 5 to 1 margin in 2024.  At the same time, the two unions’ political...

“Hoist with his own petard” is a phrase that comes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, when the Danish prince says, “For ’tis the sport to have the engineer, Hoist with his own petard.”  For those unfamiliar with the term, a petard was a small explosive device used to blow...

Well, it’s upon us again – tomorrow night is the start of the ’26-‘27 NFL season.  And while I’m an ardent football fan, I have always found interesting how grown men—otherwise rational and grounded will express behave in ways during the football season they would...

Wars are complicated matters, and whatever one thinks of Donald Trump’s strategy in Iran, one thing is certain; he is not going to make Putin-style mistakes. History has shown us repeatedly that while one nation can conquer and occupy another nation’s land, it is far...

Thomas Sowell observed that if there were a contest to determine which word has done the most damage to people's thinking it would be the word, “Fair.”  Initially I thought who could possibly object to fairness?  But then the thought occurred to me, Sowell was...

The recent Emerson College national poll had Pete Buttigieg leading the pack among prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidates at 19%. Buttigieg has one of the most impressive résumés in American politics—Harvard, Oxford, Rhodes Scholar, Navy Reserve officer,...