Gov. Ron DeSantis addressed home-schooling parents on Thursday in Osceola County.The governor spoke during the Florida Parent Educators Association annual convention, which started today at the Gaylord Palms.The…
Read more Gov. DeSantis to hold news conference from convention center in OrlandoDonald Trump shares an essential trait with the voters of New Hampshire: a craving for flattery and affirmation. Residents here are accustomed to parades of candidates trekking up…
Read more First in the Nation—And Last?If one word could sum up Nikki Haley’s ambivalent challenge to Donald Trump in the New Hampshire Republican primary, that word might be: if. If as used by…
Read more Trump Is About to Steamroll Nikki HaleyDonald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucus was as dominant as expected, underscoring the exceedingly narrow path available to any of the Republican forces hoping to prevent his…
Read more What Trump’s Victory in Iowa RevealsThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. N ikki Haley was standing a few feet in front of…
Read more What Is Nikki Haley Even Talking About?This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A little more than halfway into his speech in Waterloo, Iowa,…
Read more Trump Insists He Hasn’t Read Mein KampfDoes Nikki Haley really have a shot at beating Donald Trump? Does any Republican? On Monday afternoon, a basketball gym in Bluffton, South Carolina, was packed with people…
Read more Now It’s Nikki HaleyFor some Republican voters, to attend a Nikki Haley campaign rally is to dive headfirst into the warm waters of an alternate reality—a reality in which Donald J.…
Read more Nikki Haley Offers an Alternate RealitySuddenly, it just tumbled out: “Honestly, every time I hear you I feel a little bit dumber for what you say.” That was former South Carolina governor Nikki…
Read more A Food Fight at the Kids’ TableOf the many targets Donald Trump has attacked over the years, few engender less public sympathy than the career workforce of the federal government—the faceless mass of civil…
Read more The Open Plot to Dismantle the Federal GovernmentUpdated at 9:00 a.m. ET on September 22, 2023 A few weeks ago, the Texas anti-abortion activist Mark Lee Dickson told me that he viewed Donald Trump as…
Read more Trump Said the ‘Wrong’ Thing on AbortionIn their first presidential debate last night, Republicans staged their own version of Tom Stoppard’s classic play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Stoppard’s story focuses on the titular…
Read more Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the Republican DebateThe recent history of the Iowa Republican caucus offers the candidates chasing former President Donald Trump one big reason for optimism. But that history also presents them with…
Read more Trump Is Beatable in IowaPeople near me at the Iowa State Fair were frantic. “Do you see him yet?” they panted. “Do you think he’ll come out into the crowd to talk?”…
Read more The GOP Primary Is a Field of Broken DreamsThis should be a window of widening opportunity and optimism for the Republicans chasing Donald Trump, the commanding front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential race. Instead, this is…
Read more What It Would Take to Beat Trump in the PrimariesVivek Ramaswamy is a tall man with tall hair. And last week, when he stood in front of a crowd in Iowa wearing a black T-shirt under a…
Read more A Bouncy, Fresh Brand of TrumpismAcross multiple fronts, Democrats and their allies are stiffening their resistance to a surge of Republican-led book bans. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the…
Read more The Book-Bans Debate Has Finally Reached a Turning PointBy almost any historic yardstick, President Joe Biden is beginning the reelection campaign he formally announced today in a vulnerable position. His job-approval rating has consistently come in…
Read more Joe Biden Isn’t Popular. That Might Not Matter in 2024.It’s a measure of Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party that his unprecedented criminal indictment is strengthening, not loosening, his grip. Trump was on the defensive after…
Read more The GOP’s ‘Abusive Relationship’ With TrumpThe dilemma for the Republican Party is that Donald Trump’s mounting legal troubles may be simultaneously strengthening him as a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination and weakening…
Read more Trump’s Legal Problems Are Putting the GOP in a Vise
