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March 2016

March 28, 2016

Delegate selection as a way to stop Trump

Despite the primary elections, it's the party, through its delegates in convention, that selects its...

March 15, 2016

Young voters prefer socialism, reject conservatism

A poll of first and second-time voters, age 18 to 26, has found that two-thirds...

March 14, 2016

Is the Republican establishment now accepting Trump?

The last Republican debate was a subdued affair, with none of the yelling and low...

March 08, 2016

The Republican Party’s botched efforts to stop Trump

The Republican Party is trying to stop Donald Trump from getting its nomination, but every...

March 07, 2016

Supporting the Republican, even if it’s Trump?

In Thursday's debate, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich all ripped into Donald Trump. But...

March 04, 2016

Romney’s plan to stop Trump

Mitt Romney is emerging as the point man in the Republican party's effort to stop...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

It could really be Trump vs. Sanders

Donald Trump really could win the Republican nomination. Bernie Sanders really could win the Democratic...

January 04, 2016

Franklin Graham quits Republicans, but not politics

Evangelist Franklin Graham, son of Billy, has quit the Republican party, due to the way...

December 2015

December 18, 2015

Budget deal gives White House everything it wanted

The House of Representatives, which controls the nation's purse strings, is dominated by Republicans. But...

December 08, 2015

The four factions of the Republican party

In 2014, think tanker Henry Olsen studied polling and voting data for the last two...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

Republican leaders are starting to panic

Republican leaders are in a state of fear that Donald Trump or Ben Carson could...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

Republicans pick Paul Ryan as House Speaker

House Republicans nominated Paul Ryan to be Speaker of the House, pretty much assuring his...

September 2015

September 26, 2015

Speaker Boehner will resign–from Congress!

House Speaker John Boehner, who has been facing opposition and ouster attempts from many of...

May 2015

May 22, 2015

Ideological sorting

In the course of a column on a recent Medicare bill, Michael Gerson observes that...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Carly Fiorina for president?

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carla Fiorina is starting a run for the Republican presidential nomination. She...

April 2014

April 04, 2014

GOP establishment wooing Jeb Bush

A number of Republican leaders and donors--motivated by pragmatism and looking for a candidate who...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

Millennials aren’t so liberal after all

Contrary to the conventional wisdom that paints the Millennial generation as being the new base...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Shutdown countdown

The federal government runs out of money at the end of the day today and...

September 30, 2013

Republicans as the new 1989 Democrats

Today's Republican party is in exactly the same situation as the Democratic party of 1989...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

The two paths for Democrats

We talked about the two paths for Republicans. Apparently there are also two paths opening...

August 19, 2013

The Chris Christie path vs. the Rand Paul path

Washington Post political columnist Chris Cillizza has written an interesting column saying that the Republican...

May 2013

May 16, 2013

Rand Paul courts Christian conservatives

Sen. Rand Paul is presenting himself as a "libertarian Republican" rather than a "libertarian," and...

April 2013

April 05, 2013

Is libertarian economics what’s killing the GOP?

Most diagnoses of what ails the Republican party have been focusing on social conservatism, saying...

April 03, 2013

How today’s Republicans are like 1980s Democrats

Republicans have lost the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections. Demographics,...

March 2013

March 19, 2013

Civil war within the Republican party?

The John McCain wing of the Republican party and the Rand Paul wing of the...

March 12, 2013

Big business vs. free enterprise

Ezra Klein tells about young conservative think-tanker Derek Khanna, who wrote at his bosses' behest...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Non-conservatives behind anti-immigration issue?

Republicans are in an uproar over accusations that the think tanks behind their recent anti-immigration...

December 2012

December 04, 2012

Purging social conservatives from the GOP

As Christian activists are trying to think through the parameters of political involvement, some Republicans...

October 2012

October 19, 2012

Why Paleo-Evangelicals are leery of Republicans

Thomas Kidd coins a useful new world--paleo evangelicals--and says why this brand of conservative Christians...

October 02, 2012

Are the Republicans still a national party?

Daniel McCarthy, the editor of The American Conservative, answers that question with a "no." He points...