The West and its Discontents
It’s a strange day when praising the Warsaw uprising, the Solidarity movement, and Pope John Paul II makes you a neo-Nazi, but that day is, apparently, today, following President Trump’s speech to an...
McConnell says GOP must shore up ACA insurance markets
The Republicans' time-crunched effort to pass a health-care bill is hitting a lot of resistance in the Senate. The Post's Paige Cunningham explains five key reasons the party is struggling to move t...
Why Millennials Aren’t Patriotic
If you’ve ever wondered what’s wrong with Millennials, it could be what they think about America. Or maybe I should say it’s what we think. I am a Millennial living in our nation’s capital. Washingt...
Getting Past Our Toxic Partisanship
We Americans have a new enemy, and it is ourselves. Half of Democrats and Republicans now see members of the opposing party as not just ill-informed but actually frightening, according to the Pew Rese...
Religious Freedom
While there are many threats to religious liberty, few are more consequential over the long term than the state’s ever-expanding role in private life. If the government is able to vacuum up tax dollar...
Hate Speech is Free Speech
With the Left feverishly attempting to squash unwelcome speech on college campuses, with the president of the United States musing about tightening libel laws, with prominent liberals asserting that s...
Why So Much Rage?
“Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?” (Psalm 2:1 KJV) That didn’t take long. Less than 48 hours after the shooting rampage targeting Republican members of Congress and their...
Political Violence
Someday, I hope, I'll sit a couple of grandkids on my lap and tell them about the days when Americans abstained from political violence and settled all our differences peaceably through the democratic...
Trump’s Immigration Pause Struck Down at 9th Circuit
No one should be surprised that a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel, made up of three judges appointed by President Bill Clinton, upheld the injunction on Monday against President Donald Trump’s...
One reaction to the baseball field shooting
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)–who serves as chair of the Second Amendment Caucus–has introduced a bill called the D.C. Personal Protection Reciprocity Act (H.R 2909) in wake of yesterday’s horrifi...
Trump’s Priorities
Having coined Bush Derangement Syndrome more than a decade ago, I feel authorized to weigh in on its most recent offshoot. What distinguishes Trump Derangement Syndrome is not just general hysteria ab...
Marches Against Sharia
On Saturday, there were marches against sharia (i.e., Islamic law) in at least 20 cities in America. But according to the Bridge Initiative Team, these marches were both misinformed and misguided. “In...
