John Fund is national-affairs columnist for National Review
The landslide defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán carries lessons across the ocean for Donald Trump and both MAGA and non-MAGA Republicans. Trump pulled out all the stops for his ally, sending Vice President J.D. Vance to Hungary for a three-day endorsement tour and promising the day before the vote to “use the full
The obvious obstacle is the refusal of Congress to limit itself
The case against John Edwards is more similar to Trump’s than some will admit
Amid the coronavirus crisis, Democrats have found a new Great Left Hope in Andrew Cuomo
By taking on Whitewater, he effectively ended any chance of a Supreme Court appointment
A tale of two elections
There are some eerie parallels between the British PM and the Governator
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President Joe Biden delivered one of the most demagogic speeches of any modern president on Tuesday. You might say it even had Trumpian tones. Having seen his Build Back Better spending plan fall into a legislative ditch, a frustrated Biden has decided to run to the nearest mudhole and start throwing its contents at his
Virginia’s new lieutenant governor is the first woman of color and naturalized citizen ever elected statewide
California is a much more liberal state than it was in the 2003 recall
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The latest French export to the United States is a requirement that people show proof of vaccination to visit indoor bars, concert venues, restaurants and gyms. But will it work? On Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City will be the first American metropolis to import the French health pass. Marketed like an
How NYC bungled ranked-choice voting in the race for mayor
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Freddy Gray talks to National Review and Fox columnist John Fund about the Democrat HR 1 bill on voting practices. Will it pass, and could it be an existential threat to American democracy?
And it just passed the House of Representatives
This Democratic ‘reform’ will undermine democracy far more than anything Donald Trump has done
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In a matter of two weeks, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s reputation has slid from that of smug Emmy Award winner to mastermind of a cover-up of Covid-19 deaths in New York nursing homes. The state’s political world was rocked earlier this month when Michelle DeRosa, the governor’s top aide, was recorded telling state legislators that the Cuomo administration
Of course, the New York governor blames ‘federal guidance’
Don’t believe the hype. Kamala Harris is radical and rude
Can right and left meet on police reform?
