The president and his likely successor are campaigning almost exclusively about domestic matters, including the scarcity of domestic tranquility. Although voters usually wish that foreign policy would not intrude upon their attention, they should notice that the president who will be inaugur…

Amy Coney Barrett acquitted herself very well at her confirmation hearings, which means, quite often, she refused to answer questions.

Amy Coney Barrett has accomplished many things in her career. Becoming an authority or a policy maker on health care isn’t one of them.

With voting in key states having begun more than six weeks before Election Day, early voting has emerged as a contentious issue. Observing that the country now has more of an election season than an election day, Attorney General Bill Barr lamented that “we’re losing the whole idea of what a…

If this is the most important election of our lifetimes, is it too much to ask that the president of the United States act like it?

A presidential election is like a barometer, which has been defined as an ingenious device that reveals the kind of weather we are experiencing. In case your dismay about the dilapidation of the nation is not yet commensurate with the valid reasons for dismay, consider four things about the …

The Supreme Court fight of the century is, so far, a fizzle.

“If you want to make God laugh,” Woody Allen once famously said, paraphrasing a Yiddish proverb, “tell him about your plans.”

Shortly after President Donald Trump tweeted the unsettling news that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus, I received a text from a liberal friend on the West Coast:

THE CONVERSATION — State legislatures could face legal and perhaps even state constitutional crises after Election Day, if they’re pressured to change how they traditionally allocate electoral votes.

Seated at the breakfast table, scanning The New York Times story on Trump’s taxes, I said to my husband, “We have a greater net worth than Donald Trump.” He knitted his brow.

Just last week, the headlines were inescapable.

Pardon me if I repeat myself but, sometimes, I repeat myself.

For many progressive opinion-makers, the only way to save the Supreme Court is to destroy it.

After delivering lectures about political norms for the entirety of the Trump era – often with good cause – much of the left is now threatening to kneecap an important institution of American government on a partisan vote in an act of ideological vengeance.

”Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them, I have others.” — Groucho Marx

In Washington, flip-flopping never gets in the way of political want. Nor does holding to principle or telling the truth.

Christopher Coons, the Delaware Democrat who occupies the seat held for 36 years by Joe Biden, enjoys the Senate, in which he is a paragon of diligence and civility.

Asking President Donald Trump how he feels about “white privilege” is sort of like asking a young fish how it feels about water.

Since I announced publicly that I will be voting for Joe Biden in November, I’ve received a few communications from puzzled readers. “How can you, a supposedly pro-life woman, support someone who believes in killing babies?”

The U.S. national existence has extended through nearly 25% of one century, two full centuries, and 20% of a fourth. Now, just six years shy of a quarter of a millennium old, the world’s oldest constitutional democracy has many old European anxieties, including this: Elites are inevitable; t…

THE CONVERSATION — During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump refused to promise to accept the results of the election. Likewise, in 2020, his continued assault on the reliability and legitimacy of mail-in voting has laid the groundwork for challenging a loss on the b…

A week after the Democrats convened under a platform that could best be summarized as “We’re not Donald Trump’s party,” Republicans approved a platform that essentially said, “We’re all-Trump, all the time.”

The Democratic National Convention portrayed an America suffering from every possible sort of malady – except urban unrest.

The coronavirus has reminded Americans of something that a mature people should not need to be reminded of: Governments do not get to pick their priorities and preoccupations. Forces and events beyond U.S. shores get a vote, and they might test a Biden administration early and gravely.

Donald Trump’s almost erotic relationship with the Whirlpool Corp. continued last week when he traveled to Whirlpool’s factory in Clyde, Ohio, where he boasted to workers that he re-imposed tariffs on Canadian aluminum. Why this pleased them is mysterious.

My friend David French, one of the most admirable voices in America today, argues that conservatives need not vote against Republican senate candidates in order to send a message about Trumpism. I disagree. He writes, “A rage, fury, and a ‘burn it all down’ mentality is one of the maladies t…

“Burn it down” is rarely a wise or prudent sentiment.

Having made his name in real estate, it is oddly appropriate that President Donald Trump’s reelection efforts have steered him into a new version of panic peddling.