Charles C. W. Cooke

Could Biden unilaterally amend the Constitution? Could Trump serve a third term? Anything is possible for these folks, at this time of year.

Her revolting statement on the assassination of Brian Thompson is a reminder of why Democrats should abandon her, and look more to the example of John Fetterman.

Everyone has grievances, but no one is exempt from the rules of our constitutional order.

A response to David Frum.

Having lied incessantly about his desire to pardon his son, Biden issued the pardon anyway.

He should heed it, and align his goals with those of the voters who elected him.

But our only loyalty is to our readers.

Frankly, I have no idea what’s going to happen. But this is my best guess.

He is a genius and a lunatic, conspiratorial and visionary and childish — and all those things are probably related.

She’s wildly, catastrophically, incontestably out of her depth.

There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the executive branch to unilaterally redefine a longstanding provision within federal law.

Her shift from arguing that Kamala Harris is a grave threat to our country to actively campaigning for Harris is the kind of thing that breeds cynicism.

‘Not all cultures are equally valid,’ said Kemi Badenoch.

She once wanted to preserve it to check Republican power. Now that she might become president, she wants to toss it to gain more for herself.

It’s Oprah Winfreyism, writ large.

Donald Trump was targeted by a shooter for the second time in two months, and, somehow, the former president is the one being blamed for it.

It’s not because she’s been hamstrung with overly cautious ex-Biden staffers; it’s because she is flatly incapable of effective extemporaneous speaking.

Having a crowd lambaste you is no proof at all that you are a courageous truth-teller.

One moment, he was attending state dinners, engaging in debates, and visiting sites around the nation; the next, he was little more than a fable.

Unfortunately, they seem destined to never meet.

I have grown to dread the buzz of my phone alerting me to the inevitable delay or cancellation whenever I’m due to fly.

Sooner or later, voters will demand a concrete platform from the vice president. And when they do, she’ll have few politically palatable options.

She’s a tragically flawed candidate, but so is Trump, who doesn’t have the media cheering for him from here to November.

Rather than appeal to a majority of normal voters, both the GOP and the Democrats are proceeding as if their problems are structural rather than political.

In the wake of today’s Supreme Court decision, it falls on legislators to act.

Taking guns ‘out of the realm of politics’ and ‘into the realm of public health’ is anti-democratic.

Its reporters have gone after a gun-rights expert as though he, not the Constitution, were the reason for the Second Amendment’s legal success.

If the president loses his reelection bid in November, he’ll have no one to blame but himself.

Trump bad. Biden old. Inflation unpopular. Abortion popular. Border disaster. World on fire. On November 5, solve for X.

Let’s not pretend otherwise.