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Commentary: ‘Texodus’ doesn’t bode well for Republicans going into 2020
"I am a classically trained engineer," says Rep. Will Hurd, a Texas Republican, "and I firmly believe in regression to the mean." Applying a concept from statistics to the randomness...

Commentary: Trump spirals, adds self-impeachment to his repertoire
Donald Trump, an ongoing eruption of self-refuting statements ("I'm a very stable genius" with "a very good brain"), is adding self-impeachment to his repertoire. Spiraling downward in a tightening gyre,...

Commentary: The Chicago cupcake truck vs. the rent-seekers
Given its surplus of violence and scarcity of resources, Chicago surely has bigger things to worry about than the menace, as the city sees it, of Laura Pekarik's cupcakes. Herewith...

Who will win in 2020? Both parties seem determined to lose.
The Democrats' presidential aspirants seem determined to prove that their party's 2016 achievement — the election of the current president — was not a fluke that cannot be repeated. But...

Mueller’s report exonerating Trump makes a normal election possible in 2020
Robert Mueller's report is a gift to the nation, which now knows what was already a reasonable surmise: that its chief executive's unlovely admiration for a repulsive foreign regime, Vladimir...

Has the Catholic Church committed the worst crime in American history?
“Horseplay,” a term used to denote child rape, is, says Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, part of a sinister glossary of euphemisms by which the Catholic Church's bureaucracy obfuscates in...

The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen
Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its...

Our ‘America first’ president put America last in Helsinki
America's child president had a play date with a KGB alumnus, who surely enjoyed providing day care. It was a useful, because it was illuminating, event: Now we shall see...

This November, cast your vote against the GOP
Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, which was merely the most telegenic recent example...

A world without Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — When he was asked how to become a columnist, Charles Krauthammer would say, with characteristic drollery, “First, you go to medical school.” He did, with psychiatry as his...
