Year: 2016

As George W. Bush understood, and Vox explains, limited government just isn’t very popular. This is something that Donald Trump also understands: “Every Republican wants to do a big number on Social Security, they want to...

In the course of writing an obituary of sorts for the Grand Old Party, Jacob Heilbrunn notes that Donald Trump has attracted some heavy-hitting enemies. Exhibit A is the Wall Street Journal. Last Thursday its editorial page,...

I love soccer, but some people take it way too seriously.

This is pretty good, from Chait. Last fall, Donald Trump claimed that, on September 11, 2001, thousands of Muslims cheered the fall of the World Trade Center. This vicious fiction drew the scorn of fact-checkers and social...

If you want to read what the National Review crew thinks about Antonin Scalia and the coming nomination fight, there are now more than a dozen articles up over there to pick from. I’m picking just one of them here. Charles...