One of this year’s dominant news stories is how Donald Trump has roiled the GOP. Yet Democrats face an internal rupture that may be larger and more durable. That is my takeaway after reading “The Split,” the New Republic’s extraordinary June 14 symposium ...
This election, the Republican and Democratic candidates are both exceedingly well-known, for better or for worse. Large majorities of voters consider each candidate’s weaknesses to be “serious” concerns, according to the latest NBC/WSJ poll. For example...
Donald Trump has already squandered six weeks by insulting a “Mexican” judge born in Indiana, offering conspiracy theories, and needlessly attacking defeated rivals. His fundraising is dismal and his staffing inadequate. All this comes at the expense of f...
Earlier this month, the State Department said it would take 75 years to find all the emails Hillary Clinton sent from her private server while Secretary of State. While the Clinton campaign and State Department move at a snail’s pace to produce answers, ...
Over the last year, most of the attention has been on the Republican and Democratic presidential primary contests. With over a dozen Republican candidates and a surprisingly close battle for the Democratic nomination, lame duck President Barack Obama was...
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have pivoted to the general election—and their attacks on each other so far suggest that the next 152 days will be ugly.
Start with Mrs. Clinton. Last week in San Diego she gave what was billed as a major speech on fore...
Last Thursday, President Barack Obama visited Elkhart, Indiana, one of the cities hit hardest during the Great Recession. He went there to praise the country’s economic recovery during his two terms. Two days later, he used his weekly address to applaud...
