John L. Micek
The conservative Family Research Council is out with its latest congressional scorecard. Four out of the five grades awarded by the Washington, D...
The experience of two Republican lawmakers from Pennsylvania - a state that President Donald Trump won in 2016, and one that remains critical to his reelection chances - tells us a lot about the state of the GOP in 2019...
America has a bunch of foundational myths - George Washington and his famed cherry tree, the belief that anyone can get ahead if they just work hard enough and the stubborn belief that our occasionally sputtering constitutional republic is still more..
So here's another reason why it's important to pay attention in what happens in your state capital...
Here’s another reminder that, when it comes to the Trump administration, it’s more important to watch what the White House does, rather than what it says.. That’s pretty much the exact opposite of what the agency was created to do...
If you passed Max Acuna on the street or on your way to work, or any one of those hundreds of places where people cross paths every day, you wouldn't give the smartly dressed 30-year-old a second look. He goes to work in the morning...
WASHINGTON - It was a perfect post-Christmas day, as I watched tourists move in concentric circles around the Jefferson Memorial at the far edge of the National Mall. Then there was this...
Somewhere, Dorothy Parker is smiling. "Mr. Pelosi said, deftly shutting down some mansplaining from Trump, who, seconds earlier, patronizingly suggested that the California Democrat was "in a situation where it's not easy for her to talk right now...
What got into Lindsey Graham?. Or maybe it was the collective yearning for a simpler time when American presidents could walk 250 yards across the street to Blair House instead of taking a preposterous motorcade...
HARRISBURG, Pa. Jones III doesn't look or sound much like a rebel...
A friend who works in campaigns recently joked that there ought to be a mandatory, two-week respite from any kind of political talk immediately after Election Day...
Full Archive
- 03/14/2019 Nothing Pro-Family About Influential Conservative Council
- 03/01/2019 What Two Republicans Tell Us About Today’s GOP
- 02/25/2019 America the Melting Pot? Not So Fast.
- 02/18/2019 The Front Line in the Abortion Fight is Closer Than You Think
- 02/08/2019 Trump Makes Predatory Lending Great Again
- 01/23/2019 Trump’s Fake Photos Mask a Larger Truth
- 01/10/2019 The Illegal Immigrant Story Trump Isn’t Telling You
- 01/07/2019 What Would Jefferson Think of the Government Shutdown?
- 12/12/2018 Pelosi Gives Trump an Important Civics Lesson
- 12/05/2018 Will Trump Listen to Lindsey Graham?
- 11/28/2018 Bush-Appointed Judge Credits Roberts for Standing Up to Trump
- 11/21/2018 A Break from the Political Grind, One Album at a Time
- 11/16/2018 You Didn’t Lose the Amazon Lottery. You Dodged a Bullet.
- 11/13/2018 Spending My Childhood With Stan Lee
- 10/29/2018 In One Pennsylvania City, a Street Street Fight for Every Vote
- 10/16/2018 Control of the House Runs Through Pennsylvania
- 10/10/2018 Trump Goes Full Trump in Yet Another Pennsylvania Rally
- 10/05/2018 ‘Self-Made’ Trump was a Millionaire in Elementary School
- 09/30/2018 Kavanaugh Wasn’t On Trial. He Was interviewing To Work For Us
- 09/23/2018 Trump Jr. Rallies the MAGA Faithful in Pa.
- 09/06/2018 Having Adults in the White House is Supposed To Be Normal
- 08/30/2018 The Congressional Race that Trump is Sweating the Most
- 08/26/2018 5 Recommendations For Your Labor Day Weekend
- 08/20/2018 ‘Wrecked’: Abuse Survivors On Their Connection to Church
- 08/07/2018 Under Trump, It’s Easy To Like Ike
- 08/03/2018 The Trump Show Returns to Pennsylvania
- 07/26/2018 In Doing Nothing, Sometimes, You Do Everything
- 07/25/2018 New Polling Shows More Trouble for Republicans
- 07/17/2018 Jeffrey Lord, Off CNN, Still Defending Trump
- 07/12/2018 Congress Too Weak to Stop Trade War
- 07/03/2018 Journalists Aren’t So Different From Our Readers
- 06/25/2018 Let Sarah Sanders Eat in Piece
- 06/21/2018 Trump Wants Credit. Don’t Give Him Any
- 06/12/2018 Trumpian Values on Display Both Here and Abroad
- 05/30/2018 Sadly, Roseanne is a Victim to Some
- 05/24/2018 Once Again, Trump Goes After His Own Voters
- 05/22/2018 Trump-Approved Candidate in Trouble in Pennsylvania
- 05/09/2018 For a Builder, Trump Likes Wrecking Stuff
- 04/25/2018 Swamp Drained? How, Exactly?
- 04/19/2018 No, I Don’t Hate Conservatives. I Disagree With Them
Column Archive
- 03/14/2019 Nothing Pro-Family About Influential Conservative Council
- 03/01/2019 What Two Republicans Tell Us About Today’s GOP
- 02/25/2019 America the Melting Pot? Not So Fast.
- 02/18/2019 The Front Line in the Abortion Fight is Closer Than You Think
- 02/08/2019 Trump Makes Predatory Lending Great Again
- 01/23/2019 Trump’s Fake Photos Mask a Larger Truth
- 01/10/2019 The Illegal Immigrant Story Trump Isn’t Telling You
- 01/07/2019 What Would Jefferson Think of the Government Shutdown?
- 12/12/2018 Pelosi Gives Trump an Important Civics Lesson
- 12/05/2018 Will Trump Listen to Lindsey Graham?
- 11/28/2018 Bush-Appointed Judge Credits Roberts for Standing Up to Trump
- 11/21/2018 A Break from the Political Grind, One Album at a Time
- 11/16/2018 You Didn’t Lose the Amazon Lottery. You Dodged a Bullet.
- 11/13/2018 Spending My Childhood With Stan Lee
- 10/29/2018 In One Pennsylvania City, a Street Street Fight for Every Vote
- 10/16/2018 Control of the House Runs Through Pennsylvania
- 10/10/2018 Trump Goes Full Trump in Yet Another Pennsylvania Rally
- 10/05/2018 ‘Self-Made’ Trump was a Millionaire in Elementary School
- 09/30/2018 Kavanaugh Wasn’t On Trial. He Was interviewing To Work For Us
- 09/23/2018 Trump Jr. Rallies the MAGA Faithful in Pa.