In Federalist 70, Alexander Hamilton, not exactly reticent in his support for a powerful, proactive president, wrote, “The ingredients which…
As is usually the case in any proceeding where Trey Gowdy is present, an exchange between the South Carolina representative…
As with much of the 2016 campaign, Monday night's debate drifted into strange and uncharted waters. Not only was most…
Do individuals have the unequivocal right to express their opinion through the voting booth or do competing loyalties bind them…
The days of strong-arm politics creating a single party-dominance so concrete it rivaled dynastic monarchies, when urban kingmakers such as…
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In a testament to the facile trivialities to which nuanced and weighty policy issues have been reduced, Hillary Clinton’s campaign…
Being an opinion writer opens the floodgates for all sorts of criticism. I should know- I’ve been personally insulted and…
With the Iowa caucus, electoral politics have made a rather splashy re-entrance to the public dialogue, and a familiar bogeyman…
Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump has generated a lot of salacious talk from pundits over-eager for election-crushing political gossip.…
It is "trendy" in contemporary journalist ethics to eschew objectivity as an unattainable ideal, a damper on journalists. In a…
When Donald Trump, after several election cycles of toying with the idea, announced he was actually running for president, the…
What role should loyalty play in democratic politics? On the one hand, party systems are necessary to republicanism. They provide…