John Martin just got back from serving a tour with the Navy Reserves in Afghanistan. Entering his third year at St. John’s Law School, this National Review reader, former Rush Limbaugh devotee and son of a cop has resumed his …

Officials in both presidential campaigns, as well as analysts such as Michael Barone, tell us that it is time to “throw out the map.” Yet if we are about to jettison the broad red and blue markers, perhaps we should …

The only obstacle between Barack Obama and the presidency is the mountain of smears that will no doubt come his way. That’s the narrative that Obama supporters — and his swooning chroniclers in the mainstream media — would have us believe. …

In his Ideas piece for Tuesday’s Politico, “Can gay marriage save the GOP again?” former presidential candidate Gary Bauer makes misleading and inaccurate claims.

Mr. Bauer argues that gay marriage helped catapult the GOP to electoral success in …

The optimism was palpable when Michelle Bachelet became the first female president of Chile in 2005 and when Cristina Fernandez Kirchner was elected to the presidency in neighboring Argentina soon after. There seemed to be a coming wave of new …

John McGraw, the fabled New York Giants manager, believed many baseball games came down to a single “crunch point.” How that crunch played out, McGraw held, would determine which team would win or lose the contest.

In the …

Ask a diehard conservative politician why the Republicans lost control of Congress — and remain in deep trouble now — and you are likely to get some version of the following answer: President Bush and congressional Republicans didn’t govern as …

Conventional wisdom holds that the California Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down the Golden State’s Defense of Marriage Act was a triumph for the left, representing a giant leap toward its ultimate goal of establishing same-sex marriage nationwide.

But for …

One-third of Colorado registered voters are not affiliated with a political party. In New Mexico, Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 200,000, yet the state routinely votes for the GOP presidential candidate. Montana voters don’t even register with a party. …

The Republican Party and John McCain should be afraid, very afraid, of Bob Barr.

For only the second time since it began running presidential candidates in 1972, the Libertarian Party has a leader who has actually been elected to …