Dean of the nation’s political analysts, Michael Barone, sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss the 2024 election. The headline that emerged from that discussion was “Donald Trump’s Rainbow Coalition,” noting that the monopoly of the Democratic Party over the nation’s ...

Here’s my wish list for the incoming Trump administration to make America healthy and prosperous and great again in 2025. 1. Slash Job-Killing Regulations The regulatory state is a $2 trillion tax on the American economy. We all want worker safety, a clean environment and consumer ...

As we close out 2024 there will be some folks who we will deeply miss. For me there is a special governor, senator, and congresswoman that quickly come to mind - Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman and my classmate at Yale, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee. First, ...

In 1904, the U.S. citizen Ion Perdicaris was kidnapped by Ahmed al-Raisuni, leader of a tribal confederacy in Morocco. President Theodore Roosevelt sent seven U.S. Navy warships carrying a contingent of Marines to the Moroccan port of Tangiers. At the Republican convention that summer, John ...

Watching the year-end budget fights in Congress as we await the second term of President-elect Donald Trump, I find myself wondering: Will this era be remembered as the time when Trump was president and Elon Musk ran the country? Trump earned such nicknames as “Captain Chaos” and worse ...

There’s a quote on my desktop from the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius that I’m making the subject of my New Year’s resolution in 2025. It goes like this: “How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does ...