According to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the future of the republic teeters in the balance. Unless the United States Senate bows to the will of President Barack Obama and approves his replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, everything we hold dear will be lost.
Rich Lowry
Working-Class Zeros
We live in the age of working-class discontent, which, if it wasn’t obvious before, has been made plain by the passions roiling 2016 presidential politics.
The battle for the soul of the right
Establishment is an epithet
At the moment, the Republican establishment is relevant to the presidential-nomination battle only as an epithet.
The Great Humiliation
The Obama administration was right when it insisted that the capture and release of 10 American sailors by Iran showed the benefits of a cooperative relationship with Tehran.
Ted Cruz Is Nixon, not Goldwater
The lazy conventional wisdom is that Ted Cruz is the new Barry Goldwater, doomed to suffer an electoral landslide defeat should he win the Republican nomination.
The Wildlife Refuge Putsch
The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge hasn’t heretofore been known as a locus of government tyranny or much of anything else. Saying that the refuge, established in 1908 by Theodore Roosevelt, is in the middle of nowhere makes it sound too centrally located. It is in Southeastern Oregon, about 30 miles from the nearest town of Burns, population 2,722.
The Year of Hysteria
We should be glad that 2015 has passed into memory, because it was a year when we could barely hold it together.
Crus versus Rubio is a better GOP race
Most broadly popular candidates are also the most talented and reliably conservative
A funny thing is happening on the way to the GOP meltdown.
Obama is sanctimonious on Syrian refugees
Obama has seen the enemy: our refusal to accept more Syrian refugees
President Barack Obama has seen the enemy, and it is the refusal to accept more Syrian refugees.
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After Paris Empty Symbolism
Peace for Paris becomes sensation
The instant online symbol of global support for Paris after last week’s attacks was a roughly rendered peace symbol with an Eiffel Tower in the middle of it. The French designer Jean Jullien sketched it as soon as he heard the news of the atrocity. He called it “Peace for Paris,” and it immediately became a sensation on social media.