Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.

There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.