“It is not enough in life that one succeed,” the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. “Others must fail.” We’re at a moment when the 45th and 47th president is succeeding […]
Postmortems of the Democratic Party’s loss, running well beyond the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), are starting to come in from some of the party’s most perceptive thinkers. And […]
Why did Marc Andreessen — inventor of the first internet web browser and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today — switch from his longstanding support of the Democratic Party and back President-elect […]
Here are some observations on what you didn’t hear on election night. Most networks’ focus was, quite properly, on whether former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris would carry enough of the 93 […]
Was it just a coincidence that Vice President Kamala Harris showed up, 15 minutes late, to be interviewed by Fox News’ Bret Baier a day before Nate Silver’s poll aggregation website showed her chances of […]
Not everything significant politically is happening just in the target states. “Never seen anything like this in 30 years,” said California Republican consultant Mike Madrid in an X post, referencing the sharp increase in Republican […]
In my time as a political consultant, I observed that carrying out a campaign strategy was surprisingly simple. You settled on a basic strategy, emphasizing the candidate’s strong points on issues and character, framing the […]
Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on last Wednesday’s front page, has any proposals to cut the rapidly increasing national debt. Instead, both are proposing to […]
As I try to understand public opinion in yet another presidential election year with former President Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, I see an anomaly. On one hand, the polls look very much like […]
Learning isn’t necessarily cumulative. Human experience over the centuries provides lessons, some clearer than others. But each generation has to learn lessons anew, and some do not. The lessons about economic growth taught over the […]
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