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Tim Graham

The Left's perennial scolds of CBS News churned out barrels of umbrage over hiring conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat as part of the new team of correspondents at "60 Minutes." They suggested this was some sort of "desperate" lurch to the right, an obstreperous overthrow of ...

Daniel McCarthy

If The Onion or Babylon Bee or another satirical publication wanted to spoof the absurdity of DEI — the ideology of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" — they couldn't have invented a character as unbelievable as Jason Arday. But Arday is very real: Born in 1985, in 2023 he became at 37 ...

Froma Harrop

How could Donald Trump with bottom-scraping approval ratings decide who would represent the Republican Party in the upcoming Texas senatorial race? The primary system offers an explanation. A simple open primary system would have let the broader public choose — and, ironically, save ...

Mona Charen

In a display of Stockholm Syndrome, the White House Correspondents' Association invited Donald Trump to be the keynote speaker at their annual festival of self-appreciation. Because he is who he is, he did not take the opportunity to do the kind of gentle press ribbing that past presidents ...

Erick Erickson

The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond has climbed back to where it stood in 2007, north of 5%, and it pushed a little higher again this week after the Federal Reserve left its own rates alone. On its face, that sounds almost reassuring, a return to some pre-crisis normal. It is nothing of the ...

Clarence Page

As an old-school newshound — meaning I can remember typewriters — I am familiar with the old newsroom saying, "If you don't like the news, just wait a few minutes." Lately, I find myself waiting more than a few minutes for another shoe to drop in a present-day saga widely referred to as ...