This year’s Reagan National Defense Survey found that despite noise in the social media foreign policy debates, Americans overwhelmingly support international engagement and believe America should have military superiority.
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The newly released White House National Security Strategy raises again the question whether Americans are turning isolationist. A recent poll suggests they aren’t.
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When it comes to predicting the future, special elections are problematic. The timing, turn-out patterns, and environment can be unique and different than the regular election cycle itself. They can show possible trends, however.
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The GOP avoided disaster Tuesday in the special election to fill the Tennessee congressional seat left vacant by Republican Mark Green’s resignation. But the results should be a wake-up call for the party.
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Politics in America today are way too loud and much too small. The habits of serious leaders appear to have been discarded in favor of ever more exotic social media antics.
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Democrats were frustrated at the end of the government shutdown, with party in-fighting spilling into the open and the progressive base publicly calling for new leadership.
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