When John Quincy Adams was informed by a committee that he was elected president by the House of Representatives, for the first and only time through the procedure set by the 12th Amendment of the […]
Are we living in an era of political contentment? Most Americans would answer that question with a bellowing “No!” But there’s a case to be made that American voters, for all their negative talk, actually […]
One way to look at this election is as a repudiation of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Democrats held 235 seats in the House in 2018 as Biden launched his campaign for president. To the […]
If Democrats take a drubbing in the off-year elections — and it seems increasingly likely, but not certain, that they will — it will be because they lost their moorings when the country seemed to […]
Will 2022 turnout be a hinge year, as a moment when long-standing trends in geopolitics suddenly shifted in a different direction? This week, two important writers — one a long-established and prolific historian, the other […]
Over the last three months, political journalists have been reporting a trend toward Democrats. The Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, they have reported, has provided increased motivation for Democrats to turn out and […]
“All political lives, unless they are cut off at midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.” So said the British politician Enoch Powell, […]
It was just a mini headline nationally on primary night this month, but one with some national implications and historic resonance. The city of Detroit, 77% of whose residents are black, according to the 2020 […]
America isn’t intersectional. That’s something the left-wingers who call themselves progressives have been learning, painfully, over the past 18 months. You may well ask, what is intersectionality? It’s a label that hasn’t caught on with […]
Could America’s Founding Fathers see far, some 234 years, into the future? In declaring independence and fashioning a constitution, they were certainly trying to do so. And, in some cases, they succeeded. Consider this 78-word […]
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