A Groundhog Day Miracle: Trump's Stellar State of the Union Numbers

Jim Geraghty

Happy Groundhog Day! Or, as Mayor De Blasio calls today, DAWN OF VENGEANCE. Allegedly he is skipping today’s ritual murder festivities, but we know that after-hours, when everyone has gone home, he will stalk the night, striking fear in the heart of every groundhog.

Look What Dr. Jekyll Can Do When Mr. Hyde Takes the Night Off!

Yes, Trump critics and skeptics are much less likely to want to sit through watching the State of the Union, so the audience is somewhat self-selecting. But the public assessment of Trump’s Tuesday night address is gangbusters:

A combined 62 percent of speech-watchers called Trump’s performance “excellent” ...

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Be Cautious, but Take the Nunes Memo Seriously

David Harsanyi

For more than a year now, half of America has been driven into hysterics on a weekly basis by highly selective, often partisan leaks fed to it in 900-word increments by Democrats using the...

Positioning over the Nunes FISA Memo Continues Ahead of Its Release

Andrew C. McCarthy

Positioning over the Nunes FISA Memo Continues Ahead of Its Release

The Inadvertently Libertarian Trump

Jim Geraghty

Jonathan Chait wrote Monday, “The latest development in the relationship between the Kochs (right-wing heirs to a business fortune) and Trump (also the right-wing heir to a business fortune) is...

State of the Union: Imagine CNN for an Hour without Russia

Jonathan S. Tobin

For an hour and 20 minutes on Tuesday evening, the world stood still for CNN and MSNBC. Despite setting a record for length during the televised era, President Trump gave a fairly normal version...

Toward a Trump Republicanism

Michael Barone

Donald Trump’s surprisingly good State of the Union speech got a record 70 to 75 percent positive approval rating from those who watched. Even if you discount (as you should) for the Trump...

New Mexico Lawmakers Want to Force High Schoolers to Apply for College, and That's Dumb

Katherine Timpf

New Mexico lawmakers have introduced a bill that would force high-school juniors to apply for college or prove that they have other approved post-graduate plans, and it’s honestly one of the...

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Ronen Bergman

"Hands down the best book I’ve read on intelligence, Israel, and, for that matter, the Middle East...this page-turning book is indispensable for understanding Israel’s fight for survival, with a revelation on every page.."