Dan McLaughlin

Justice Alito warns judges not to flyspeck executive decisions too closely.

Imports do not raise many of the issues that we associate with immigration.

We should never have reached the point where presidents can threaten law firms over whom they hire and represent.

Can Congress give a private industry group an unlimited power to tax?

History repeats itself in Ukraine, but we shouldn’t reenact it blindly.

What we know about the negotiations suggests that there was never a deal on the table that would have left Ukraine secure from Russian conquest.

Bringing back Karl Rove’s hero won’t usher in a new economic golden age.

A decision allowing schools to hide social gender transitioning of middle schoolers from parents is shot through with fallacies.

America is both a people and an idea. Its people can be loyal to their nation and also care about their old homelands.

The worst Democrats to hold the presidency have been very bad indeed.

Senate Republicans are likely to be more on defense than offense in 2026, but the field will be small unless and until the environment deteriorates.

Even the blue team’s best presidents are a mixed bag.

The DOGE case pushes the judicial power too far, and tempts a dangerous response.

Most of his executive branch actions won’t have staying power if Democrats retake the White House in 2028.

If RFK is confirmed, he is likely to fail for reasons similar to those for past political choices for the cabinet.

Trump can only win his case by getting the Supreme Court to overrule its own precedent or reject its reasoning.

The Republican challenge to a state supreme court election decided by 734 votes is mostly about overseas voters who didn’t provide photo ID or never lived in North Carolina.

Democrats are scuffling to control two houses of the state legislature — with a majority in neither.

The House members in the CBC include a disproportionate share of elderly members whose ability to do their jobs is questionable.

The attacks on the Court are unlikely to end, but everything that’s been tried so far has failed, and the Left knows it.

The political force of the 2020 election contest and the Capitol riot are spent.

Republicans have a majority in the House because they won a majority of the vote.

James Earl Carter was a liberal, but the occasional steps he took in conservative directions are worth honoring and laid key foundations for the Reagan Revolution.

RFK Jr. is a left-wing authoritarian, pro-abortion, pro-Berniecare, a man of proven bad character, and a menace to the health of Americans.

Hegseth’s critics have been increasingly marginalized by getting to his left.

A major court victory for keeping power constrained by law and woke capital focused on capital, not wokeness.

A debating society of lawyers shows our universities how intellectual freedom is done.

In the South and the West, as in the Midwest, the Trump campaign’s victory depended upon the big cities and the suburbs.

At the county level, Donald Trump’s victory doesn’t look like a rebellion against the cities and suburbs.

There are not many usable precedents for what J. D. Vance can do with a one-term vice presidency.