When I was in the polling business many years ago, our reports always started with the mood of the electorate, whether things were moving in the right direction or seriously off on the wrong track, then moved to two sections on character and issues. Usually those sections were pretty ...

In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of disseminating propaganda against the Soviet state. The two were authors and humorists who published satire abroad that mocked Soviet leaders for failure to comply with the ...

Evidence — including a bombshell indictment this week of a senior New York political figure — is mounting that China is not content to run a police state just at home but is extending a long arm of repression and subversion into the United States, seeking to intimidate protesters, harass ...

If you want another example of vanishing U.S. deterrence (see nearby), consider the Biden Administration’s failure to stop Iran from providing Russia with ballistic missiles. Citing unidentified U.S. and European officials, the Journal reports that a recent arms shipment from Tehran to ...

As we tuned into the big debate, the Trump camp was peddling the claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s dogs and cats. When the debate turned to the subject of immigration, Donald Trump jumped on that hallucination without prompt. “In Springfield, ...

Of all the living Republicans who have run on a presidential ticket, only two are publicly backing Donald Trump: Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice presidential candidate, and JD Vance, Trump’s current running mate. Everyone else is going a different way. Trump’s two-time running mate and vice ...