Ramesh Ponnuru

Supporters of the benefit need to focus on ways to ensure that it retains its value in a period of high inflation.

The former president still hasn’t come up with a plausible way to explain why he isn’t responsible for last week’s Republican defeats.

If Republicans learn and act on the lesson voters have just given them, it will turn out to be just the failure they needed.

Let’s act now, yes, but only after we think.

Liberals have hoped and Republicans have feared that the politics of immigration would give Democrats the upper hand. Reality is proving different.

The Bill Clinton example of success after legislative defeat is not one today’s Democrats are especially interested in learning from.

Republican senators who refuse to certify Biden’s victory are inflaming doubts they helped kindle. That’s poison for democracy.

The split between the Senate and the House, and between rural and urban voters, showed that our partisan divisions are deepening rather than being resolved.

A senior official's op-ed will change no one's mind. But it will make the president even less likely to listen.

Condemning violent criminals for acting like animals is certainly defensible. But all this context requires a context of its own, which is Trump's general approach to immigration and crime.

The main reason we don't have more restrictive gun laws on the books is that people who oppose them are more likely to vote on the issue than people who support them.

Evidence suggests Russia did indeed meddle in the presidential race, but voters were responsible for the result, and their decision should stand.

“Enough,” says Hillary Clinton. After the Senate defeated several gun-control proposals, she tweeted that word along with the names of the victims of the Orlando massacre. Political activists use tragedy and loss all the time to draw attention to good causes, or causes they think are good. There’s nothing wrong with that. What makes Clinton’s … Continue reading Clinton’s shameful demagogy on Senate gun bills

Each party is on track to nominate the only candidate who could possibly lose the election to the other. In the latest Washington Post-ABC poll, a sizable majority of Americans considered Donald Trump unqualified to be president. But Hillary Clinton is so unpopular they still preferred Trump to her. Anxious Democrats are wondering just how … Continue reading One criticism Clinton can use on Trump without running into her own negatives