After the pro-Western government of China was forced to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, when the Communists took over mainland China, bitter recriminations in Washington led to the question: "Who lost China?" China was, of course, never ours to lose, though it might be legitimate to ask if a different American policy toward China could have led to a different outcome.
Despite everything, the often interesting analyst Jamelle Bouie writes in Slate -- "everything" includes "the email controversy, foreign donors and the Clinton Foundation" -- "Hillary is in good shape." Good enough to leave her party "still positioned for victory."
Rick Perry who recently stepped down as the longtime governor of Texas is running again for the Republican presidential nomination, and GOP voters see him just behind the pack of early front-runners.
Thirty percent (30%) 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 June 4.
Some pundits have suggested that liberal darling Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, should jump into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but is he really a threat to frontrunner Hillary Clinton?
Congress’ performance ratings remain down in the dumps, but voters are slightly more likely these days to think Congress should be a little tougher on new legislation.
Marketed as pro-privacy reform of the rancid Patriot Act, the USA Freedom Act is about to become law. Though nothing could be further from the truth, many Americans will believe that the NSA is being reined in, and move on another issue.
The Freedom Act has been characterized as another vindication of Edward Snowden -- and, considering the fact that we wouldn't be discussing the balance between individual privacy rights and national security if he hadn't made the NSA's spying against us public, it is.
The race for president is getting so crowded that it seems like soon there may be more of them than there are of us.
Let's set aside whether Cameron Crowe's new movie, "Aloha," is a good or bad movie. Whatever the flick's merits or demerits, it has inadvertently helped expose the arbitrary, capricious and ridiculous demands of militant identity politics.
As far as legal immigration is concerned, voters are more about fair play than about what might be better for the country.
Are we seeing a reversal of the 20-year decline in violent crime in America? A new nationwide crime wave?
Longtime Senator Lindsey Graham has entered the sea of candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination, but GOP voters rate the South Carolinian the longest of the long-shots in the race so far.
Most voters still aren't ready to pay much, if anything, to fight global warming, but a slightly higher number are willing to spend more for the cause.
Most voters continue to welcome those who immigrate to this country legally, and they’re even more welcoming if illegal immigration is stopped.
A stellar group of American historians and academics released a milestone open letter yesterday in protest of deleterious changes to the advanced placement U.S. history (APUSH) exam. The signatories are bold intellectual bulwarks against increasing progressive attacks in the classroom on America's unique ideals and institutions.
President Obama recently told the graduating class of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that denying global warming undermines U.S. national security Concern about global warming is up from recent months, but voters still aren’t totally convinced that humans are to blame.
Which candidate will emerge from the crowded Republican presidential field next year? Can anyone stop or at least slow down Hillary Clinton’s seemingly inevitable march to the Democratic nomination? Will Democrats be able to match the GOP in Super PAC spending? And will there be new revelations about Clinton’s e-mails or the Clinton Foundation’s fundraising practices?
These are some of the questions that are dominating discussion of the 2016 presidential election in the media and among Washington political insiders. What you need to know is that the answers to these questions, interesting as they might be, will have almost no bearing on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Some attitudes don’t change: Voters continue to overwhelmingly believe that Americans need to prove their identity before casting a vote.
Protestors demand "social justice." I hate their chant. If I oppose their cause, then I'm for social "injustice"? Nonsense.
Americans have a love/hate relationship with the National Security Agency, but the love side of the equation’s been growing as they worry more about the threat of Islamic terrorism.
