A stars-aligning moment to pass immigration reform
For the first time, Republicans need immigration reform as much as Democrats have always wanted it
What Obama lost in this campaign
Even with victory, Obama missed the chance to engineer a realignment of the US electorate
The embassy mobs and Obama’s ‘failure’ in the Middle East
Is Obama’s policy in the Middle East in ‘epic collapse’? Hardly. But serious people have doubts now
Expect a lot of Republican talk about the apocalypse
As Richard Nixon understood, anger and resentment are the ties that bind American conservatism
The incoherence of the Republican battle in Iowa
GOP social and economic policies are incoherent and none of the candidates knows how to hide that
Are American conservatives the new French?
Libya suggests that conservatives want chest-beating glory more than they want success
On Obama’s second big Middle East speech
There has been a revolution in the Arab world but, thus far, no revolution in American thinking