A chilling form of authoritarianism has taken deep root across America. Its purveyors claim their high positions make them uniquely… Read Article →

The Democratic Socialists are right: This is no time for half measures. If the United States is to thrive for… Read Article →

How we see politics reveals a lot about who we are. But it is less akin to a Rorschach ink… Read Article →

As conservatives seek to counter the hard-left turn taken by the Democratic Party, it will not be enough to simply… Read Article →

This assassination attempt feels different. Following the previous attempts on the president’s life, progressives briefly acknowledged that their false and… Read Article →

Chicago politics have taken root in Vatican City. Pope Leo XIV may be a man of the cloth, but he… Read Article →

Barack Obama pinpointed a central conflict in American politics back in 2004 while talking with a group of Google executives,… Read Article →

I understand why FCC Chair Brendan Carr is threatening the legacy media. Coverage of the Iran conflict, as with most every… Read Article →

Will President Trump fall prey to the “Pottery Barn Doctrine”? Articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up… Read Article →

This column first ran in the News & Observer of Raleigh on November 8, 1998. The coarsening and dumbing down… Read Article →