This question should hardly require an essay, but let’s face it: We’re living in strange times. America is in trouble. Over this past year many of Donald Trump’s comments have made me almost literally hopping mad. The hot-mic comments from 2005 are especially horrifying. Can there be any question we should denounce them with flailing arms and screeching volume? I...

As it turns out, there are pro-lifers who are not Catholic. Did you know that the study of cuteness is a legitimate and rather busy field of academic inquiry? It is not as trivial as it sounds. The features that constitute cuteness, and the response of human beings to them, are nearly universal. Cuteness is partly related to infantile physical...

As soon as Donald Trump officially announced Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate in July, people on the left hurriedly began gathering ammunition with which to slander Pence, seizing, in particular, upon his supposedly egregious record as a social conservative. Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Democratic politicians, liberal media outlets, and left-wing activist groups such as Planned Parenthood have spent...

Why Tim Kaine, Mike Pence may be the most important VP candidates in years The first and only debate between the vice presidential candidates — Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine — may not generate the record viewership or fireworks of last week’s presidential face-off. But what Tuesday night’s VP debate lacks in theatrics, it could make up for...

How Much Does Trump Really Want to Be President? Maybe Americans don’t want to elect a grown man who acts like a 13-year-old boy. Donald Trump does know how to act in a serious, restrained way that impresses people. The fact that he isn’t displaying those qualities in his presidential race raises questions about just how much he cares about...

Donald Trump’s journey of change should comfort evangelicals History is the struggle of imperfect people to try to do the right thing Why are evangelicals voting for Donald Trump? A reporter asked me if, before concluding to support Donald Trump, I grappled with the same concerns expressed to him by a principled evangelical Christian woman. She worried about the moral...

The New York Times and other mainstream outlets have been filled with alarming stories recently about the possibility, voiced by Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), that our voting process in the November election could be subjected to cyber-attacks. Johnson told reporters in Washington (and state officials in a phone call on Monday) that he...

The Supreme Court concluded in 2008that voter ID is constitutional and doesn’t impose an unreasonable burden on voters. But the recent decisions of three federal courts throwing out voter-ID laws in North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin as discriminatory have put opponents of common-sense election reforms in raptures. These erroneous rulings twist the Voting Rights Act from a law intended to...

“Trusting authoritarian regimes to ensure the continued freedom of the internet is lunacy,” Attorney General Paxton said. “The President does not have the authority to simply give away America’s pioneering role in ensuring that the internet remains a place where free expression can flourish.” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton—joined by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt,...

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by single digits in five critical battleground states, according to post-debate polls for each battleground. Clinton tops Trump in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia in Public Policy Polling (PPP) surveys out Thursday. She owns a 7-point edge in Colorado, grabbing 51 percent to Trump’s 44 percent. Clinton also boasts...