In an environment where every day has felt like a month and almost every news cycle has something that the media consider a potentially administration-shaking disaster, we finally have something worthy of the perpetually screaming headlines — a national-security adviser getting fired under a haze of suspicion about his dealings with Russia. This is gobsmacking […]
Rich Lowry
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GOP should learn from Democrats' mistakes
It’s beginning to look a lot like August 2009 in reverse. In that summer of the Tea Party, conservative activists packed the town-hall meetings of Democratic congressmen and peppered them with hostile questions. It was an early sign of the abiding opposition that Obamacare would encounter, and the prelude to Democratic defeats in 2010, 2014 […]
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Overly sanctified judiciary goes too far
As you might have heard, Donald Trump tweeted at a judge. The commentariat shuddered at the effrontery of it, and some worried that the foundations of the separation of powers had been shaken. Trump’s slam of Judge James Robart was undeniably crude and ill-considered, but it wasn’t a threat to our republic. In fact, it […]
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Trump pushing version of nationalism
The first week of the Trump administration was a vindication of the American nation-state. Anyone who thought it was a “borderless world,” a category that includes some significant portion of the country’s corporate and intellectual elite, was disabused of the notion within about the first five days of the Trump years. The theme running throughout […]
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Trump thrives off media’s hostility
The best thing that happened to Donald Trump last week is that BuzzFeed published the raw Russia dossier about him. It can’t be pleasant for anyone to see his name associated with prostitutes and a bizarre sex act in print — the principle that all publicity is good publicity can be taken too far even […]
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Liberals’ smear will haunt Sessions
NAACP officials have already been arrested in an anti-Jeff Sessions protest. The Alabama senator’s confirmation battle as attorney general is sure to generate lots of heat and very little light. He will likely prevail, but not before his name is dragged through the gutter in an execrable exercise in contemporary racial politics. At least Sessions […]
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No reason to spoil Loesser’s cute song
A Christmas standard since the 1940s, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is an uncommonly catchy and witty song that is now — incredibly enough — controversial. Anyone who has turned on the radio, walked in a shopping mall or watched a Christmas special is familiar with the tune, a duet featuring a smitten male suitor trying […]
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Russians not the major cause of Clinton loss
The Democrats have a simple explanation for Hillary Clinton’s loss — the Russians did it. The party that has had a decadeslong soft spot toward Moscow is in a frenzy over Russian hacking that supposedly denied Hillary the victory that was rightfully hers. In a contest this narrow, anything might have been decisive. But the […]
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‘Junta’ charge shows the Left losing its mind
President-elect Donald Trump has already committed a grave offense against our system of government by forming a “junta,” according to his critics. The Trump junta consists of three former generals whom the president-elect has tapped for top national-security positions, with others still under consideration. Like much of what Trump does, the military selections have inflamed […]
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Trump sets terms for economic worldview
In the course of a couple of tweets, Donald Trump may have ended the image of the GOP as the party of corporate America. After striking a Carrier deal to preserve about 800 jobs, the president-elect slapped the Indiana company Rexnord on Twitter for “rather viciously firing” its workers and then went after Boeing for […]