Commentary By Daniel McCarthy

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                            January 30, 2024Trump's Map to the White House By Daniel McCarthy
   In 2020, Joe Biden won three states by less than 1 point: Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin.

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                            January 23, 2024Will 'Lawfare' Take Trump Off the Ballot? By Daniel McCarthy
The biggest threat to the Constitution in 2024 is the "lawfare" being waged against Donald Trump -- and the Supreme Court is as much its target as Trump is.

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                            January 9, 2024'The Sopranos' at 25: A New World Tragedy By Daniel McCarthy
   "The Sopranos" debuted 25 years ago, but what makes it a masterpiece is how much older its themes are.

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                            January 2, 2024Trump, Biden and a Fight for the Heart By Daniel McCarthy
As an election year dawns, Republicans and Democrats should stop to reflect on why our politics seems so stagnant.

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                            December 19, 2023Trump's Country Party Roots By Daniel McCarthy
Why is Donald Trump so resilient?

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                            December 12, 2023What Happened to Ron DeSantis? By Daniel McCarthy
Ron DeSantis is running as the true-blue conservative in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

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                            December 5, 2023Biden Looks Doomed -- But Is He? By Daniel McCarthy
Gavin Newsom is so eager to run for president that he even campaigns to insist he's not running.

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                            November 28, 2023A Test for Trump and His Rivals By Daniel McCarthy
A little more than six weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the race for the Republican presidential nomination looks like it's over before it's begun.

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                            November 21, 2023When Inequality Is Fatal for Men By Daniel McCarthy
Equality has always been an American preoccupation, right from the words "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence.

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                            November 14, 2023By the Time Abortion Makes the Ballot, the Battle's Over By Daniel McCarthy
The fight over abortion in America is as much a religious contest as a political one.

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                            November 7, 2023War in the Democratic Party -- and at the Opera By Daniel McCarthy
Joe Biden's party is at war with itself.
Scenes last weekend of protesters scaling the White House fence and shouting down Sen. Cory Booker at a Democratic rally in New Jersey are only outward manifestations of a deeper inner turmoil.

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                            October 31, 2023Don't Let Refugees Be Used as a Weapon By Daniel McCarthy
It's been called the population weapon, and it's an effective way to blackmail Europe.

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                            October 24, 2023Israel's Lesson for 2024: A Liberal Crackup By Daniel McCarthy
Conventional wisdom says voters don't care about foreign policy.

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                            October 17, 2023Liberals' Dilemma: Immigration or Israel? By Daniel McCarthy
The war between Hamas and Israel forces everyone to recognize an uncomfortable truth: Immigration is a foreign-policy issue.

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                            October 10, 2023Why Bidenflation Defines Bidenomics By Daniel McCarthy
As the world burns and President Joe Biden's inadequacies grow only more obvious, Democrats reassure themselves that voters next year will care most of all about domestic issues.
And there, they think, Biden has something to be proud of: Bidenomics.

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                            October 3, 2023Will Gavin Newsom Copy Trump? By Daniel McCarthy
Gavin Newsom wants to be Donald Trump.
Eight years ago, Trump took stock of the Republican Party and found it ripe for conquest.

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                            September 26, 2023Biden's a Loser -- but Democrats Can't Ditch Him By Daniel McCarthy
   If Joe Biden is their nominee, Democrats will lose the White House next year.

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                            September 19, 2023Do Sex Scandals Matter? By Daniel McCarthy
   "The Jerry Springer Show" has been off the air for years, but you'd never know it to judge by the state of American politics, which now serves up titillation and outrage as reliably as Jerry Springer ever did.

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                            September 12, 2023Cornel West Spells Doom for Biden By Daniel McCarthy
Fear has a name in the Democratic Party, and that name is Cornel West.

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                            September 5, 2023What Trump Does for Democracy By Daniel McCarthy
Pauline Kael knew she wasn't a representative American.