A federal judge just struck down a law passed by Republicans in Florida that would have made it harder for many citizens to vote.

Ever since the slogan “defund the police” was coined, it has been making the discussion about what to do with the issues of crime and policing less coherent or meaningful, and has made it much easier for those who favor the unsatisfactory status quo.

To be clear, Biden didn’t make any news in the interview, nor did Richardson ask him the kind of questions he is usually asked.

Parliament’s preferred term for its invasion of Ukraine is “special military operation.”

To me the Wisconsin poll, while it happily looks bad for Trump, tends only to demonstrate that we’re not done thinking and talking about him yet.

What David Brooks, Gail Collins, Ross Douthat and Brett Stephens would like to hear.

I think President Joe Biden has played the U.S. cards reasonably well so far, but Packer offers a more comprehensive analysis.

On Sunday, Romney was interviewed on CNN’s State of the Union, and he demonstrated once again his ability to rise above partisanship and give his honest view of important matters.

You won’t learn anything about Ukraine from watching Tucker Carlson, but as a jaw-dropping demonstration of a biased vacuousness, it can’t be beat.  

I was taken aback by a Thomas Friedman column in the New York Times, in which he dug up an interview with George F. Kennan, a great sage of Cold War politics and history.

The New Republic asked scholars how worried they are about political violence increasing ahead of the 2024 presidential election. 

Political scientist Ivan Krastev developed his insights — and presumably his views of Russian-ness — from neighboring Bulgaria, where he grew up.

Because Lindsay Graham was the friend and sidekick of the late Sen. John McCain, Graham was, long ago, considered a relatively candid pol. That’s over. Waaay over. 

And it’s getting harder and harder to see whether, when or how it gets to being anything else.

One of the weak spots in the system is the vagaries of an old and inadequate federal statute called the Electoral Count Act of 1887.