Thirteen Months In, the White House Still Has Unfilled Spots

Jim Geraghty

Making the click-through worthwhile: why personnel and staffing-up remains a problem for the Trump administration even after thirteen months, Americans for Prosperity unleashes $4 million in advertising hitting Missouri’s Claire McCaskill and Indiana’s Joe Donnelly for not supporting tax cuts, and an important book tackling America’s “crisis of responsibility” and self-destructive love affair with the mentality of victimhood.

Happy Shrove Tuesday (also known as Mardi Gras and the eve of Lent)! Tomorrow marks Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday, which is an inconvenient combination. “Happy Valentine’s Day, honey, I got you a heart-shaped box of chocolates. Too bad we’re fasting today.” If you think that’s odd, just wait 40 days, when Easter Sunday is on April Fool’s Day.

Why the Trump Administration Still Has Personnel Troubles

Yes, the security clearance process takes a while, but. . . it’s mid-February in the second year of the Trump administration. Shouldn’t at least the folks who arrived with Trump have completed background checks by now? Today the New York Times calculates that the White ...

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The Dumb Controversy over the Schiff Memo

Andrew C. McCarthy

The Schiff memo, principally authored by Democratic staff on the House Intelligence Committee under the direction of ranking member Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), is the response to the Nunes memo,...

Could the Gerber Baby Help Lead a Revolution?

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Could the Gerber Baby Help Lead a Revolution?

The White House Response to Rob Porter’s Resignation Is Sickening

Katherine Timpf

The domestic-violence accusations against Rob Porter are credible and despicable — and the White House’s attempts to diminish them are sickening. In case you’ve been living under a rock, the...

Understanding the Media’s Ugly Weekend

David French

When it comes to whitewashing North Korea, one mainstream-media article is a problem. Two is a travesty. But what about three, then four, then five? What if some of them adopt a seemingly...

Only Pro-Lifers Address Abortion’s Core Moral Question

Mene Ukueberuwa

At last month’s 45th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., what little coverage the event received was largely focused on remarks by President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan. But another...

Why the Media Is Fawning over North Korea

Ben Shapiro

There’s a red star over the Olympics. The media couldn’t get enough of Kim Jung Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong. The Washington Post described presence at the Winter Olympics in South Korea this...

The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

Peter Cozzens

"The most lucid and reliable history of the Indian Wars in recent memory."