I recently returned from a delightful weekend in Massachusetts, where I was born and raised. I visit my home state frequently, and nearly every time I do, am reminded of why I’m no longer a Democrat.
This time, it took just 5 minutes reading the Boston Herald to refresh my non-Democrat bona fides. The Herald   more

Boston-area talk radio host Jay Severin makes Mark Levin look like Diane Rehm. So it was with great displeasure that I heard about his return to the airwaves last week after a month long indefinite suspension.
The proximate cause of Severin’s latest banishment was a fusillade of intemperate remarks that he made about Mexican immigrants,   more

On April 22, millions of South Africans will head to the polls in that country’s fourth national election since the birth of multi-racial democracy in 1994. That alone should be reason for celebration. And it’s hard to see how South Africans could do much worse than their last elected president, Thabo Mbeki (the country’s current   more

Recovering from an otherwise devastating election, some conservatives believe they have found a silver lining amidst the rubble: the continuing salience of “culture war” issues in general, and the subject of gay rights in particular. At a National Review post-election symposium seeking to answer the question, “Whither Conservatism?” social conservatives Maggie Gallagher, Jeffrey Bell and   more

Recovering from an otherwise devastating election, some conservatives believe they have found a silver lining amidst the rubble: the continuing salience of “culture war” issues in general, and the subject of gay rights in particular. At a National Review post-election symposium seeking to answer the question, “Whither Conservatism?” social conservatives Maggie Gallagher, Jeffrey Bell and   more