Christmas 2018: Not the Worst of Times
While cable news and social media are on fire over the shutdown and the pullout from Syria, the Silent Majority, one imagines, is more focused on an earlier event, 2,000 years...
About: Patrick J. Buchanan
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Will Trump Hold Firm on Syrian Pullout?
Trump overruled his secretaries of state and defense, and jolted this city and capitals across NATO Europe and the Middle East. Yet, Trump is doing exactly what he promised to do...
Can America Fight Two Cold Wars at Once?
Can the U.S. pursue a Cold War policy of containment against both of the other great military powers, even as we maintain our Cold War commitments to defend scores of countries...
What Lies Behind the Malaise of the West?
Is it coincidence or contagion, this malady that seems to have suddenly induced paralysis in the leading nations of the West? ...
How Democracy Is Losing the World
If Donald Trump told Michael Cohen to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels about a one-night stand a decade ago, that, says Jerome Nadler, incoming chair of House Judiciary, would be...
Will Paris Riots Scuttle Climate Accord?
Paris shows that Western elites may be reaching the limits of their political capacity to impose major sacrifices upon their constituents, who are turning to populists of the left and right...
Trump’s Crucial Test at San Ysidro
For Trump, the die is cast. Not only are border security, the wall, and his pledge to halt the illegal invasion of his country what got him elected, they appear to...
Are the Saudi Princes True Friends?
The 633-word statement of President Donald Trump on the Saudi royals' role in the grisly murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi is a remarkable document, not only for its ice-cold...
Will Democratic Rebels Dethrone Nancy?
After adding at least 37 seats and taking control of the House by running on change, congressional Democrats appear to be about to elect as their future leaders three of the...
Trump Raises the Stakes With CNN
Is Trump obligated to provide access to whomever CNN chooses to represent the network in the West Wing, even if the individual assigned routinely baits the press secretary and bashes the...
Macron to Trump: ‘You’re No Patriot!’
In a rebuke bordering on national insult Sunday, Emmanuel Macron retorted to Donald Trump's calling himself a nationalist. ...
The War for the Soul of America
The war in Washington will not end until the presidency of Donald Trump ends. Everyone seems to sense that now. This is a fight to the finish. A post-election truce that...
Has Bloomberg Begun the Battle for 2020?
Did former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg just take a page out of the playbook of Sen. Ed Muskie from half a century ago? ...
Mass Migration: Mortal Threat to Red State America
In two years, 2016 and 2017, the United States will have absorbed more migrants, legal and illegal, than all the people of the 13 states when we became a nation. ...
Is This Worse Than ’68?
Are we more divided than we have ever been? Are our politics more poisoned? Are we living in what Charles Dickens called "the worst of times" in America? Is today worse...