The recent worry was that the Trump administration was ginning up fake intelligence about Iran blowing up oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz to justify a war against Iran. Then,President Donald Trump said the Iranian attacks weren’t a big deal. The episode is another indication of the underlying modesty — not a very Trumpian […]

By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post Former Vice President Joe Biden’s gaffe in boasting of his work “across the aisle” (actually, they were Democrats, making the story he told even more inapt) with segregationist Southern senators in the 1970s hasn’t gone away as his bobble over support for the Hyde amendment essentially did a couple […]

NEW YORK — Last Sunday, according to organizers, about 2 million people marched in a Chinese city to protest an extradition bill that they labeled Chinese “tyranny.” If accurate, it would mean that one in four Hong Kongers was out in the streets fighting Chinese encroachment. While it is difficult to predict what path this […]

WASHINGTON — Let’s get this straight: Joe Biden is leading in the polls for the Democratic presidential nomination because he’s the most “electable” candidate in the Democratic field? A guy who doesn’t realize that I worked with segregationists isn’t a winning message with Democrats in 2020? This is what you get when you turn to […]

When Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., recently unveiled his education reform plan, it predictably castigated charter schools, claiming that they were “privatizing public schools.” Sanders joined a long line of leaders who tar charters with the privatization brush. Before, during and after the Los Angeles teachers strike last winter, union President Alex Caputo-Pearl did so repeatedly. […]

As I listened recently to our minister’s sermon based on the Book of Acts wherein Peter is told that there is another view of Christian acceptance that differs from the orthodoxy of conventional Scripture, I thought of today’s political world. Two other insights buttressed the oppositional idea that we must challenge what is sometimes considered […]

If there is one thing you learn about at Oberlin College, the notoriously progressive liberal arts college, it is surely privilege: white privilege, hetero privilege, gender privilege, you name it. Now, an Ohio jury has identified an entirely new variety, woke privilege, and resolved to hold people who believe they are protected by it to […]

By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post Several of the Democratic presidential candidates, including Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., have supported Medicare-for-all, which essentially would abolish private health insurance, including employer-provided health-care coverage. They might want think twice about such a plan’s popularity — once voters figure out what it […]

Media hysterics take note. Honest commentary on the Trump administration’s 2019 diplomatic, economic and military clash with Iran’s vicious dictatorship requires historical context. Here’s critical historical Fact One: Since 1979, the year the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his initially broad coalition toppled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the revolutionary Islamic Iranian regime Khomeini established has been […]