Mickey Edwards

Reggie Lewis was a kid with a good eye and a hoop dream. His abilities on the basketball court landed him at Northeastern University in Boston and later with the...

The important question for Republicans is this: Is wholesale congressional passage of the Republican Party's "Contract With America" good for the party or bad? I ask this question because Republican...

I'm not sure if ambition is inevitably destructive of character, but there are clear signs that it may have a decidedly corrosive effect. Lamar Alexander is a case in point....

Barry Goldwater, the political godfather of modern American conservatism, loathed bureaucrats and pointy-headed, soft-on-defense liberals. He believed in business, profit, free markets and low taxes. And he loved the environment...

Ronald Reagan oversimplified it, of course, for the sake of the sound bite, but government is not always the problem, though it sometimes is. Government also can sometimes be the...

Amazingly, and with a straight face, Bill Clinton and his allies in Congress are attempting to sell the idea that Republicans are insufficiently tough on crime; that it is only...

Confronted at last with full-fledged American fury, China, apparently the new Evil Trade Empire of the East, has been brought to its knees. With America threatening to go to war-even...

Jack Kemp's decision to take himself out of the 1996 presidential race may not have ensured Bill Clinton's re-election, but it gives the president a fighting chance to become the...

Republicans in Congress had to put up with the Democratic majority for 40 years, and it is an almost irresistable temptation to even the score now that Republicans are running...

Stumbling about, looking for answers but refusing to see the ones the rest of us see, the remnants of the political Left have begun the process of internal disintegration. Leftover...