Charles C. W. Cooke

His Canadian ploy was not salutary or deliberate, and the justifications that were marshaled in its defense made no sense either for him or for the United States.

Everyone is unhinged, as is customary during a Trump presidency.

With Trump’s trade war, the siren’s call of revolution proved too seductive, once more.

There’s only one logical way to deal with pirates.

The public wants the economy humming, the border secure, and an end to woke lunacy — not tariffs and irrelevant indulgences.

Without an Obama or a Clinton or a JFK to attract attention, the mediocrities run rampant.

The trade fight with our neighbors is mostly costs and very little in the way of benefits.

Why stop at snipping knife tips? So many other household items could be danger-proofed, too.

And that’s what it is, by the way — a mandate.

They are the ones who endorse racial discrimination. That’s their thing.

Why write about unitary executive theory if you don’t know what it is?

And if so, what then?

Even in a state as beautiful as this one, residents can only bear destructive misgovernance for so long.

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.