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Reagan's Lesson for Trump Apr. 28, 2017
It's something most conservatives would not have imagined a year ago: The opening act of Donald Trum... Read More
Taking Trump Seriously and Literally Apr. 23, 2017
WASHINGTON — Journalist Selena Zito famously summed up President Donald Trump's 2016 president... Read More
The Serious Matter of Political Humor Mar. 18, 2017
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only American elected president four times, had an often overlooked s... Read More
Are Immigrants Destroying Our Way of Life? Mar. 16, 2017
During Cold War debates about the merits of capitalism and communism, Americans offered a simple gau... Read More
Yes to 4 Percent Growth Mar. 07, 2017
Imagine if in 1961 John F. Kennedy's advisers had told him, "We will never put a man on the moon." O... Read More
John F. Kennedy: What Would He Think of His Party? Feb. 16, 2017
President Ronald Reagan said: "I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The party left me." Actor and fo... Read More
Is the Left Playing with Fire Again? Feb. 14, 2017
To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the '60s and '70s, it is starting to look ... Read More
How Trump Can Create a Bull Market Feb. 07, 2017
The stock market has risen about 9 percent since the election of Donald Trump, with an increase in w... Read More
The Opposition's Very Wrong First Step Jan. 21, 2017
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan instructed Haley Barbour — his White House political dir... Read More
Reagan and Trump: American Nationalists Jan. 17, 2017
Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Rona... Read More
Why Left Opposes Sessions: He's Right; They're Wrong Jan. 11, 2017
Richard Allen, President Ronald Reagan's first national security adviser, once wrote an essay for Hu... Read More
Can Trump and Putin Avert Cold War II? Jan. 03, 2017
In retaliation for the hacking of John Podesta and the DNC, Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diploma... Read More
Fame Is Brief; the Candle Flickers Dec. 14, 2016
It is late February 1984. We are in the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester between Wong's Egg Rolls... Read More
Has the Trumpian Revolution Begun? Dec. 09, 2016
The wailing and keening over the choice of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA ap... Read More
Welcome to the Party of Trump Nov. 29, 2016
I stirred up some controversy last week when I told a conference of several dozen House Republicans ... Read More
Just Because 'Our Guy' Won Nov. 17, 2016
Just because "our guy" won, Economics 101 hasn't been repealed. Donald Trump is still a populist, n... Read More
What Now?: Part II Nov. 14, 2016
As the post-election shock of some, and the euphoria of others, both begin to wear off, the country ... Read More
Kaine Gnaws on Pence and Won't Let Go Oct. 05, 2016
Until Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Republican Gov. Mike Penc... Read More
How Trump Wins the Debate Sep. 23, 2016
On one of my first trips to New Hampshire in 1991, to challenge President George H. W. Bush, I ran i... Read More
Memo to GOP 'Never Trumpers': Reagan Isn't Rising From the Dead Sep. 22, 2016
A "never Trump" friend I've known since law school writes: "My former partner is old enough to have ... Read More
