Commentary By Daniel McCarthy

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                            April 9, 2024PBS Misremembers William F. Buckley Jr. By Daniel McCarthy
   Imagine making a documentary about one of the 20th century's leading opponents of the Ku Klux Klan -- without ever talking about the evil of the KKK itself.

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                            April 2, 2024Who Wants to Be House Speaker? By Daniel McCarthy
Mel Brooks said it's good to be the king -- but is it good to be speaker of the House of Representatives?

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                            March 26, 2024Trump Hunts for a VP Close to Home By Daniel McCarthy
   It's the new season of "The Apprentice," only this time Donald Trump isn't looking for the next business whiz, he's in the market for a running mate.

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                            March 19, 2024Princess Kate and Democracy's Discontents By Daniel McCarthy
   Unelected pundits unceasingly tell us democracy is in danger.

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                            March 12, 2024Can Biden Buy the Voters? By Daniel McCarthy
   Joe Biden's weaknesses are obvious, but the State of the Union last Thursday and the president's $7.3 trillion budget proposal this week are reminders of just how tough he can be.

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                            March 5, 2024Veepstakes Give Trump an Edge By Daniel McCarthy
Donald Trump is already beating Joe Biden; polls last weekend from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CBS News and Fox News all agree.

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                            February 27, 2024Why Online News Isn't Saving Journalism By Daniel McCarthy
   Bad news for the media often feels like good news for conservatives.

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                            February 13, 2024Vladimir Putin -- A Passive Aggressor By Daniel McCarthy
Vladimir Putin is fighting a war he can't win against forces he doesn't understand.

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                            February 6, 2024Is Taylor Swift Trouble for Trump?  By Daniel McCarthy
   She's just won the Grammy for album of the year.

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                            January 30, 2024Trump's Map to the White House By Daniel McCarthy
   In 2020, Joe Biden won three states by less than 1 point: Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin.

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                            January 23, 2024Will 'Lawfare' Take Trump Off the Ballot? By Daniel McCarthy
The biggest threat to the Constitution in 2024 is the "lawfare" being waged against Donald Trump -- and the Supreme Court is as much its target as Trump is.

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                            January 9, 2024'The Sopranos' at 25: A New World Tragedy By Daniel McCarthy
   "The Sopranos" debuted 25 years ago, but what makes it a masterpiece is how much older its themes are.

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                            January 2, 2024Trump, Biden and a Fight for the Heart By Daniel McCarthy
As an election year dawns, Republicans and Democrats should stop to reflect on why our politics seems so stagnant.

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                            December 19, 2023Trump's Country Party Roots By Daniel McCarthy
Why is Donald Trump so resilient?

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                            December 12, 2023What Happened to Ron DeSantis? By Daniel McCarthy
Ron DeSantis is running as the true-blue conservative in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

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                            December 5, 2023Biden Looks Doomed -- But Is He? By Daniel McCarthy
Gavin Newsom is so eager to run for president that he even campaigns to insist he's not running.

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                            November 28, 2023A Test for Trump and His Rivals By Daniel McCarthy
A little more than six weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the race for the Republican presidential nomination looks like it's over before it's begun.

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                            November 21, 2023When Inequality Is Fatal for Men By Daniel McCarthy
Equality has always been an American preoccupation, right from the words "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence.

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                            November 14, 2023By the Time Abortion Makes the Ballot, the Battle's Over By Daniel McCarthy
The fight over abortion in America is as much a religious contest as a political one.

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                            November 7, 2023War in the Democratic Party -- and at the Opera By Daniel McCarthy
Joe Biden's party is at war with itself.
Scenes last weekend of protesters scaling the White House fence and shouting down Sen. Cory Booker at a Democratic rally in New Jersey are only outward manifestations of a deeper inner turmoil.