The first primary contests are now less than one month away and all eyes will be on Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. A great deal of focus will be placed on who is leading in national and state specific polls but expect the race in New Ham...
As the year closes, let us remember a few notables who left this life in 2015.
Martin Gilbert, as a young Oxford scholar in 1962, was asked byRandolph Churchill to help research the biography of his father,Winston S. Churchill. Following Randolph’s dea...
Before leaving for his annual Hawaiian Christmas vacation, President Obama found an odd way to wish Americans “Mele Kalikimaka!” In an interview with National Public Radio, he discussed Islamic State, also known as ISIS. While admitting that “they can hur...
Written constitutions matter little in Latin American countries run by strutting ex-colonels and widows of populist demagogues. In these banana republics, the caudillo exercises both executive and legislative powers. Laws are not written by legislatures, ...
The proportional nature of the early GOP primary contests between February 1st and March 12th will have a significant impact on the 2016 Presidential Race. Each state and territory has rules dictating procedures how delegates are chosen, how they are all...
While less than 1% of the GOP National Convention delegates are at stake in the Iowa Caucuses on Feb. 1, the outcome will still have a large impact. That makes the tendency of Iowa voters to change their minds in the days leading up to the caucuses so in...
Donald Trump’s call on Monday for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” is unlikely to blow up his campaign. No matter how outrageous his statement seems to most Americans, his supporters apparently eat up stuff like that.
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Republican senators in purple states are watching the GOP presidential primary with more than a passing interest. Their jobs—and the Republicans’ 54-46 Senate majority—depend on it.
A Senate candidate can run only so far ahead of the party’s presidenti...
