In 1935 George Dangerfield published "The Strange Death of Liberal England, 1910-1914," a vivid account of how Britain's center-left Liberal Party, dominant for a century, collapsed amid conflicts it could not resolve.
In the face of increasing legal questions about the safety of secrets on the private e-mail server she used as secretary of State and of a vigorous intraparty challenge from Bernie Sanders, belief that Hillary Clinton is likely to be next year's Democratic presidential nominee has dropped noticeably over the past month.
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.
Twenty-eight percent (28%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending August 13.
Americans are definitely worried that the unfolding economic crisis in China may have repercussions on this side of the Pacific.
It’s been a whole year since the United States first launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group (ISIS) in Iraq, but voters still think terrorists have the winning edge.
Hillary Clinton's recent attack on fellow presidential hopeful Marco Rubio, R-Fla., over abortion ("offensive," "outrageous" and "troubling," she said) reminded me of something I've been wanting to wonder aloud for some time:
Why doesn't the Democratic Party call for a federal law legalizing abortion?
My Instagram and Facebook feeds have been filled with unwitting apologists for racism against Korean-American small-business owners.
Heckuva job, Hollywood!
As the U.S. economy continues to stumble along, many Americans suspect they’re competing for jobs with the growing number of illegal immigrants in this country.
August is traditionally a vacation month, and East Coast elites, following European tradition, are thick on the ground in the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard (the Obamas' choice) and Nantucket.
While protests continue in Ferguson, Missouri one year after the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer, most Americans have an even more positive view of their local police and don’t consider their tactics out of line.
With Hillary Clinton facing increasing investigative scrutiny, are some big name Democrats poised to enter the race for the 2016 presidential nomination? Joe Biden? Al Gore?
Investigators confirmed this week that Clinton hosted top secret information on her private web server while serving as secretary of State. Most voters think Clinton’s use of a private, non-government provider for her State Department e-mail raises serious national security concerns.
Voters are skeptical about President Obama’s plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions by coal-burning power plants and remain closely divided over what he has in mind for the U.S. coal industry. Most Republicans think he wants to get rid of coal all together.
Americans don’t have much good to say about the protests this week in Ferguson, Missouri on the one-year anniversary of the Michael Brown incident.
Despite President Obama’s recent announcement of an even more ambitious plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, voters still put job creation ahead of the fight against global warming and don’t blame their fellow Americans for worrying about the economy first.
Whatever you think of him, Donald Trump is a stick of dynamite thrown into the presidential pond. All the boats have been rocked, and given Trump’s potential for more explosiveness, the political waters show little sign of settling down anytime soon.
Donald Trump is so special that we’ve created a category (and perhaps a word) just for him in our Republican presidential rankings: “The Un-Nominatable Frontrunner.”
Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore quietly entered the crowded race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in late July, but GOP voters see little chance that he will be the nominee.
Get off that late-summer snooze button, America. The Obama administration is plotting to break a major promise made under oath -- and jeopardize our nation in the name of social justice.
This week, top White House officials floated renewed plans to close down Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Pentagon and Justice Department bureaucrats have been powwowing over how to shutter the facility and import up to hundreds of detained jihad suspects into the U.S. It's a longtime legacy promise President Obama wants to fulfill to progressives before he rides off permanently to Martha's Vineyard and Hawaii's lushest golf courses.
Democrats are planning to hold six debates for their 2016 presidential candidates, but at least two of the candidates – Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley - say that’s not enough.
Yikes, you really hate me!
Many of you, anyway, based on Twitter and Facebook comments posted after I argued immigration with Ann Coulter on my TV show.
