Anyone hoping the interview of President Biden by George Stephanopoulos of ABC News would allay fears by growing numbers of Democrats that the president is not mentally fit to serve another four years must be disappointed. When asked repeatedly and in different ways if he would take an ...

Even the Democratic deus ex machina is having a bad stretch. No matter how favorable the presidential race has looked for Donald Trump, there’s always been the possibility that Special Counsel Jack Smith would get to trial with his Jan. 6 case before the election and, at the very least, ...

Put aside former president Donald Trump (an impossible task for some) and examine the Supreme Court’s majority ruling that protects any president from litigation for decisions and actions he (or she, but for the sake of this column I will use the male pronoun) has made while in office. In ...

The debate featured “an extraordinarily aggressive, top-to-bottom attack,” Politico wrote. “Over and over,” one candidate’s “tactic of choice was a gut-level punch.” An “alpha-male display,” Britain’s left-wing Guardian headlined. The dominant candidate’s style, CNN ...

I never thought I would be writing a column to urge Joe Biden to step aside. But his painfully poor performance in his debate with Donald Trump last week forced me to face a very uncomfortable truth. His debate showing was a capital-D disaster. The horrible truth: Biden needs to bow ...

In other circumstances, the resignation last week of state Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy would seem an opportunity to reset the GOP on a course toward relevancy in Illinois. But both the circumstances of Tracy’s departure and the reaction to it suggest cause for concern. Downstate ...