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Free speech in the crosshairs

The most consequential issue on the ballot this November is the fate of free speech: your ability to speak your mind. At former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally Saturday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaped on the stage and urged the nation to support Trump. It’s “the bedrock of ...

Would GOP survive Trump’s defeat?

If Donald Trump loses the election, to hear him and his campaign tell it, the fate of the Republican Party should be the least of our concerns: his defeat would spell the end of the nation itself and all that we hold dear. But let’s assume that Trump and company are exaggerating and that ...

How we cope shows our differences

I reported last week about the decided move of young women to the political left and away from the religious affiliation of their childhood. But these measures, at least in the short run, do not appear to be relevant to the success young women are having in day-to-day living in America. By ...

Campaign might need strategy change

In my time as a political consultant, I observed that carrying out a campaign strategy was surprisingly simple. You settled on a basic strategy, emphasizing the candidate’s strong points on issues and character, framing the election in terms favorable to most voters. Then you just carried it ...

Word games can’t conceal results

Politically incorrect words don’t kill, but Venezuelan gangs do. On Saturday, former President Donald Trump warned rallygoers in a small Wisconsin town that if Vice President Kamal Harris “is reelected, your town and every town ... will be transformed into a Third World hell-hole. ...

How are Trump, Harris neck-and-neck?

With less than 40 days until Election Day, how can it be that Trump has taken a small lead in Arizona and Georgia — two swing states he lost to Biden in 2020? How can he now be essentially tied with her in the other key swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin? More generally, how can Trump ...