
		June 23 2019

The Madcap Caution of Donald Trump

Rich Lowry

Subtract Trump's taste for nonstop controversy and rhetorical brinkmanship, and you're left with an incrementalist center-right government. Read More


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Inching Back toward the Rule of Law

Kevin D. Williamson

Our current legislators have abandoned regular order and instead lurch from crisis to crisis and artificial emergency to artificial emergency, steadily ceding power to the power-hungry presidency and to the bureaucracies reporting to it.

Joe and the Segs

Kevin D. Williamson

Biden here has performed something of a public service: smoking out the few people in the Democratic party who are less serious than he is.

Vermont Expands Medicaid to Cover Gender Affirmation Surgeries for Minors

Mairead McArdle

Vermont is expanding its Medicaid coverage to cover gender affirmation surgery for transgender patients under 21 who wish to undergo the procedures.

Joe Biden's Segregationist Problem

Dan McLaughlin

In a political culture increasingly focused on past sins against racial and gender equality, Biden has long been sitting on a time bomb: his many enduring friendships and alliances with segregationist Dixiecrats.

Trump's Personality Is His Biggest Reelection Obstacle

Jonah Goldberg

The problem for Trump is that if the central question of the election is him, he will lose because he is not popular.

Two Painful Truths of America's Religious Culture War

David French

Secular government is breaking its promise of liberty, and the American church is breaking its promise of virtue.

Bernie Sanders Is FDR's Unimaginative Echo

George Will

Sanders says, "what I mean by democratic socialism" is "economic rights are human rights." Really. That's it.

FAA Orders U.S. Airlines to Avoid Iranian Airspace

Mairead McArdle

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday ordered U.S. airlines not to fly in Iranian airspace as tensions between the two countries continue to rise.