Things were looking bleak for Bob Dole in the spring of 1996.
The veteran Republican Senate leader had locked up the Republican presidential nomination in early March. Now came the tough part: the general election fight against President Bill Clinton.
The United States was prospering in 1996, and the country was at peace. Polls suggested that while   more

What should a free-market believer think about the plan for a government bailout of the U.S. mortgage market?
Try this analogy:
You have a white carpet in your upstairs hall. The normal rule is that nobody can wear shoes on the carpet. But the house is on fire — and the baby is upstairs. Will you tell   more

Is it 1932 yet?
That’s what many Democrats are hoping! In the wake of this week’s market turmoil, you see smiles on the faces of three groups of people: short sellers, vulture buyers, and Democratic strategists. Wall Street has laid an egg, as Variety famously quipped in 1929, and that means that happy days will soon   more

A few days after Prime Minister Stephen Harper called a federal election, a Canadian broadcaster wistfully compared the campaigns on the two sides of the border:
“It’s like sitting alone in a tiny attic apartment listening to a wonderful party roaring below.”
I snorted.
“No it’s not. It’s like being warm in bed with your wife happily watching   more

I live in Washington, in a neighborhood that is home to lawyers, political consultants, television personalities and the chief executive of the TIAA-CREF pension fund. Not exactly an abode of the superrich, but the kind of neighborhood where almost nobody does her own yardwork or vacuums his own floor. Children’s birthday parties feature rented moon   more

Whoever imagined that we would see a Republican convention rapturously applaud an unwed teen mother?
Yet that is just what happened on Wednesday night in St. Paul. At the conclusion of Sarah Palin’s triumphant speech, the Alaskan Governor welcomed her family onto the stage: her husband, her five children and the fiance of Bristol, her visibly   more

Few things enrage Democrats more than the consistent Republican success in branding Democratic presidential candidates as overprivileged snobs.
And this year, it is happening again.
John McCain may be the son and grandson of admirals, married to a woman with a fortune usually estimated at $100 million.
Yet it is Barack Obama, son of a single mother and   more

Who wrote the following?
“The fact that a great many Jewish neoconservatives—people like Joe Lieberman and the crowd over at Commentary—plumped for this war, and now for an even more foolish assault on Iran, raised the question of divided loyalties….”
Pat Buchanan? The notorious British MP George Galloway? No—it was Joe Klein, a Jewish columnist for Time   more