American presidential elections are likened to marathons for good reason. The first caucus and primary elections for the respective...

What is the secret to Bernie Sanders' enduring popularity? And why is he even in the running for the Democratic nomination in 2020,...

During his failed 2016 campaign for the Republican nomination, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush predicted that, if elected, Donald Trump...

That Barack Obama had aimed at the presidency for some time was common knowledge to those who came within his orbit, whether at Harvard...

A few months ago, during the most vicious exchanges in the 2016 US presidential election, a popular refrain among those dismayed by both...

Socio-political, economic, academic and media elites love to throw the word “disruption” around with such abandon one would think they...

Little matters more to Donald Trump, the living brand-turned-American president, than pomp and imagery. Trump staffed his government (at...

President Donald Trump faces a significant challenge over the next few months to hang on to office and survive the gravest of charges...

It turns out that the Republic is alive and well. The first quarter of 2017 has brought a pleasant surprise: in vivid contrast to...

For a moment, he soared. On rhetorical wings crafted from feathers provided by daughter Ivanka and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon,...

“To be on the wire is life; the rest is waiting,” intones the fictional Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse’s underrated film ‘All That Jazz.” It’s a...

“Blitzkrieg” first exploded into the global lexicon in 1939/40 as Nazi Germany’s forces stormed across western Europe with all the...

November 8th, 2016 has come and gone. So has January 20th, 2017. It is worth recognizing that the sun rose and fell as usual those days,...

It’s always dangerous, not to mention presumptuous, to try and armchair analyze someone whom one has never met or known personally, much...

The Republic has fallen. Donald Trump, regarded by many progressives as the Dark Lord incarnate, has stormed the White House. His legions...

After eighteen months of personal attacks, invective, distortions of the truth and outright lies, the dispiriting 2016 US presidential...

The view from Donald Trump’s vast penthouse in the New York tower that bears his surname must be awe-inspiring. Every morning he gets to...

It is an open secret that Barack Obama is a huge ‘Star Trek’ fan. In particular he is said to be particularly fond of the starship...

Winston Churchill (may have) said it best: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” The 2016 presidential...

At long last, it seems, the 2016 presidential election cycle is coming to its natural end. Rivers of words, forests of newsprint, and...