In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the "ravages of mob law" throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant "mobocratic spirit" threatened to sever the "attachment of the People" ...

Sometimes I feel like it is "deja vu" all over again as Yogi Berra would say, history repeating itself - or at least rhyming. People of the world have been here before. They have seen bully governments - the strong taking advantage of the weak. As a child, I saw a slew of World War II movies ...

By MONA CHAREN Syndicated columnist The Wall Street Journal editorial board has delivered its share of idiocies over the past few years, but its response to the capture of Nicolas Maduro has set a new standard. Calling the military intervention “justified” because Venezuela had allied ...

By TIM GRAHAM Syndicated columnist What is going on in the People’s Republic of Minnesota? The Democrat establishment in the Gopher State is nothing like it was back in the Ronald Reagan years, with ex-Vice President Walter Mondale or Gov. Rudy Perpich. The insurrectionist echoes of their ...

By JOSH HAMMER Syndicated columnist In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the “ravages of mob law” throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant “mobocratic spirit” ...

By KEITH RAFFEL Syndicated columnist The Trump-ordered attack on Venezuela and capture of its president is meant not only to be a distraction from the mounting Epstein scandal. It’s also a power play consistent with the American president’s backward-looking economic and geopolitical view ...