Daniel McCarthy

The former defense secretary died aged 88 on Thursday

The author’s prospective Senate bid is interesting as more than just a test of Trumpism without Trump

Washington, DC The Democratic party is dying. That may be hard to believe since Democrats control both houses of Congress and won the last presidential election with a record 81 million votes. But the exiguous margins of their hold on the House and Senate, with fewer than 51 per cent of the seats in either

Trumpism and the GOP are turning into a new blob

Limbaugh brought rock’s irreverence to conservative commentary

Predictions of GOP doom have a long history of being wrong

Trump was the mildest of corrections to the failures of post-Cold War liberalism

American hegemony in the service of a liberal world order no longer protects our civilization

There are upsides to giving Joe Biden unbridled power

Seventy-five years after the end of World War Two we still have forces in Britain, Japan, Germany and Italy

American politics is full of irony as a result of the separation of powers

The only thing coming on if Biden wins is another round of hopeless foreign interventionism and nation-building

The American political system is much more dynamic and self-reactive than either left-wing or right-wing activists assume

Mail-in voting undermines elections