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Chuck Todd received plaudits from his media peers for lambasting Republican Sen. Ron Johnsons investigation of the FBI as Fox News conspiracy propaganda stuff during a hostile 10-minute... → Read More
In the Trump era, it increasingly appears that journalistic standards are on life support. Consider, if you will, what a day in the life of contemporary journalism now looks like. Late Tuesday... → Read More
Claire McCaskill sat down for a freewheeling discussion with David Axelrod, a former journalist and later Democratic political consultant close to Barack Obama. Having lost her Missouri Senate seat... → Read More
Look at this chyron from CNN last night, passed on to me by an old colleague. Notice anything wrong? Check out the percentage. → Read More
Sanders doesn't have a health care plan, so much as a branding strategy for one. Medicare is very popular, but it's already bankrupting the nation. → Read More
Conservatives pounce, the media fiddles. → Read More
Colorado turns up the heat on America’s most controversial baker. → Read More
Jack Phillips faces a new civil-rights complaint for refusing to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition. This time, though, he’s going on the offensive. → Read More
Wendy Kaminer is actively engaged in an unusual mission for a former board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): warning the public that the ACLU has abandoned its commitment to defending free speech. Writing in the Wall Street Journal on June 20, Kaminer notes that a recent internal ACLU memo on “case-selection guidelines” explicitly says that the cases the organization takes up… → Read More
SCOTUS didn't touch the First Amendment issue, but Kennedy's decision smacked down anti-Christian hostility → Read More
In Andrew Puzder's new book, 'The Capitalist Comeback,' the CEO and Trump's former labor secretary nominee makes a compelling economic case. → Read More
Today’s church provides plenty of targets for the satirical publication. → Read More
Looking for summer reading as you squeeze in one more trip to the beach or mountains this summer? Federalist writers offer their recommendations. → Read More
Sen. Ben Sasse has written an uncommonly thoughtful book about how to rescue future generations from the cultural dysfunction that threatens to engulf us. → Read More
Needlessly elaborate verbal trainwrecks designed to dodge accountability don’t foster trust between voters and politicians. Not that Hillary Clinton cares. → Read More
Speak and live with an eye towards what truths you will leave championed when you die. Such as free speech. → Read More
Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump for president in January, but in a clear sign that Trump isn't unifying the GOP, Sarah Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC, sent out a fundraising email today that doesn't mention Trump. Instead, the fundraising plea asks for money to help elect new conservatives in 2016 like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz: I find it hilarious that SarahPAC is sending me emails… → Read More
Today, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan delivered an address on Capitol Hill to a bipartisan group of congressional interns. In the speech, Ryan calls on Americans not to become disheartened by the state of American politics and angry rhetoric. And he urges his fellow politicians not to give in to the politics of polarization, and to act in good faith and to try to inspire the American people… → Read More
President Obama is on his historic trip to Cuba right now, though it’s proving historic in ways that Obama didn't intend. Right before the president arrived, Cuban authorities took the liberty of arresting dozens of human rights protesters right before he arrived. Otherwise, being forced to confront the victims of the Communist regime might make things discomfiting for the president. In any… → Read More
At Thursday's presidential debate, CNN's Jake Tapper asked Donald Trump about incidents of violence at his campaign events: TAPPER: Do you believe that you've done anything to create a tone where this kind of violence would be encouraged? TRUMP: I hope not. I truly hope not. I will say this. We have 25 (thousand), 30,000 people -- you've seen it yourself. People come with tremendous passion and… → Read More