Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is collapsing, a victim of this one unsolveable problem: Hillary’s opponents hate her — but her supporters do not much like her.
As the Democratic primaries have stretched, former Hillary supporting constituencies have one by one dropped away.
African-Americans — supposedly so Clinton loyal? They were the first to defect to   more

Has any recent U.S. presidential candidate come under such withering and relentless attack from his own side than John McCain?
Radio talk show hosts, prominent journalists, local conservative activists: They have slammed and denounced McCain for his heresies against Republican orthodoxy over the past decade:
-McCain agitated for higher taxes on cigarettes and tobacco.
-He   more

It’s been a long time since there was a Republican presidential candidate like Mitt Romney.
In recent years, Republican presidential candidates have dealt in soaring rhetoric and heroic themes. The grubby details of policy they left to the Democrats.
Mr. Romney was made of very different stuff. He could enthrall a roomful of CEOs and economists with   more

The first (and maybe most decisive) news of the day came not from New York or California, not from Georgia or West Virginia, but from the Institute for Supply Management.
The Institute tracks business purchasing of everything from toilet paper to laptop computers. On Super-Duper Tuesday, it reported that the service sector of the U.S. economy   more

Free societies possess one great advantage over their enemies: They learn. Because free societies openly discuss their errors, they can repair their errors.
With the release of the final Winograd report on the 2006 Lebanon war, Israel has entered a period of intense self-examination that will ultimately only enhance its self-defence. None of Israel’s enemies   more