If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be around the living room as a pleasant experience, they're not going to vote for you even if they agree with you.

Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.

My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.

How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.

Parties that are majority parties are incoherent parties.