George Orwell, call your office. That's my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration's efforts to stamp out "misinformation." It's an interesting irony that covert censorship should be
undertaken enthusiastically by those who call themselves "liberal" or "progressive" and who claim the opposition would threaten the survival of liberal democracy.
— Recent 2024 presidential polling has shown President Biden performing poorly with young voters.
— The 18-29 voting bloc has been reliably Democratic leaning for at least the last several presidential elections.
— Biden’s weakness with young voters is not new, despite doing well among the group in the 2020 general election.
You must be lonely. The media say loneliness is everywhere in America.
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.
There's a political cartoon going around that shows John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy sitting on a couch watching a speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The two hold their palms to their heads and moan that their legacy is being twisted and ruined.
My first Stossel TV Fellow, Trevor Kraus, initiated this column.
Equality has always been an American preoccupation, right from the words "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence.
Let's face it. Anyone who works in, or just visits, the Wall Street area of Manhattan can't deny the aura of power and money isn't what it was 20, 30 or 50 years ago.
In the nauseating demonstrations celebrating Hamas' slaughter of Israelis, one hears repeated, again and again, the refrain that Israelis are "settlers" and "colonists" -- and therefore, in the catechism inculcated in universities in recent decades,
oppressors not deserving of mercy or sympathy when tortured and murdered by those who deemed themselves the oppressed.
Vote counts in Virginia are nearly final but not yet certified. There were no late changes to the topline result that seemed likeliest the morning after the election: Democrats won their barest possible majorities in both chambers: 51-49 in the state House of Delegates and 21-19 in the state Senate.
Abortion continues to be a political hot potato 50 years after the controversial Roe v. Wade decision where the U.S. Supreme Court “legislated” a Constitutional “right” to abortion.
"Experts" were confident that they knew what America should do about Covid. They were wrong about so much.
The fight over abortion in America is as much a religious contest as a political one.
In the last several months, I have debated some of the intellectual leaders of a group called the "national conservatives."
What's with young voters? It's a question prompted by two surprising and perhaps contradictory developments that are out of line with conventional wisdom and prevailing expectations among political observers.
— Democrats won five of the six key races we were watching in Tuesday night’s elections, turning in a strong showing just a couple of days after a series of bad polls for President Joe Biden left some Democrats shook as the presidential race looms next year.
— The 2023 elections have limited predictive value, in large part because of the key differences between the Tuesday night results and what we should expect next year in the states we were watching.
"I was not genuine in my own beliefs," says 23-year-old Rikki Schlott in my new video. "I self-censored."
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.
One of the most enduring lessons of American history is that the banning of liquor sales and consumption ("the noble experiment") was a colossal failure. Drinking didn't go down much, but the profits ended up going not to legitimate businesses but bootleggers and the mob, while the murder rate soared to all-time highs in American history. It was the policy that made America's most famous gangster, Al Capone, famous -- and rich.
Is it inevitable that Donald Trump will be the second person in history -- Richard Nixon was the first -- to win the Republican Party's nomination for president three times? Many thoughtful observers, and others as well, think so.
