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My copy of Hillbilly Elegy is festooned front and back with praise from the same media outlets that have now made a blood sport out of attacking its author, Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance.

Since the end of World War II, debates about American foreign policy have more often been within the two major parties than between them.

To withhold the Bible from the classroom is educational malpractice.

In recent and upcoming elections, similar voting patterns are manifesting themselves in three major Western democracies.

You cannot understand what’s going with American politics today without it

India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 25 endorsed her economic advisor’s proposal to open the country to direct investment from China,

The disintegration of the turbine blade and resultant pollution that forced the closure of Nantucket’s beaches should scuttle the offshore wind scam. But it’s only the tip of Big Wind’s problems.

The government in Ireland appears to be more focused on maintaining a politically correct image than helping its own citizens.

Joe Biden’s withdrawal will open the floodgates to unrestrained California-style progressivism.

Jews have been taught to fear populist movements. But the rise of populist conservatives is a threat to the political establishment, not the Jewish people.

The GOP ticket is busting the old consensus to represent a broad, disenfranchised middle.

And it isn’t the only such country.

It’s disrespectful of the 40th president and simply not true.

Trump’s VP will help make Europe great again

Elon Musk is going all in on right-wing politics.

Liberalism can’t be the core of U.S. foreign policy.

Our divides are as much epistemological as political.

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Things got very, very close to being very, very bad.

A Minor Tempest in the NatCon Teapot

Today’s great power competition with China is unlike anything we have seen in the past

Marine Le Pen lost. That doesn’t mean France won.

Britain’s general election produced a result no less seismic for being predicted

U.S. policy in Congo is enabling the slide toward ethnic violence against Congolese Tutsis.

Free to Be…You and Me is a wildly successful 1972 album, with a 1974 companion book and TV special, conceived by the actress Marlo Thomas. The book, Thomas wrote in the Foreword, has “stories and poems and songs that would help boys and girls feel free to be who they are and who they want […]