Adam Rubenstein

The 2020 campaign has begun and Cory Booker is in it to win it.

The 2020 campaign has begun and Cory Booker is in it to win it.

Iowa’s worst congressman ekes out a victory.

King's son to Des Moines Register: “We are not granting credentials to the Des Moines Register or any other leftist propaganda media outlet with no concern for reporting the truth.”

The Iowa Republican appears to have made a veiled jab at Mexicans at a campaign stop.

America’s most deplorable congressman is back. And worse than ever.

He’s an embarrassment to the GOP and to America.

A conviction in Chicago’s highest-profile police shooting in decades.

This isn't a book; it's a direct mail pitch that you have to pay to read.

When identity politics are good, when they're bad, and when they're just plain stupid.

What was really going on at the U.S. Open

Why nationalism might be a good thing — where it could lead — and what the president should read

Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, has made it his business to ‘own the libs,’ and business is booming.

Hamzeh Daoud, a rising junior at Stanford, took to Facebook on Friday afternoon to declare that he’ll “physically fight zionists on campus next year.” Angered by the Israeli government’s passage of its “basic law,” Daoud said that he’ll physically fight zionists on campus “if someone comes at me…

Conservative columnist defended casting Scarlett Johnansson as a trans man.

A conversation with Michael McFaul on Putin, Russia, and what the president should read.

Celebrating viewpoint diversity.

Yossi Klein Halevi on trying formulate a 21st century Israeli and Jewish narrative.

A timely conversation with the former Israeli prime minister.

Ehud Barak was Israel’s 10th prime minister. Before and after that, he was Israel’s minister of defense. He also served as minister of foreign affairs, and chief of the General Staff of Israel’s defense forces. Today Barak and I had a wide-ranging conversation in which we spoke about Iran, Lebanon…

David Frum is a senior editor at the Atlantic and a contributing editor to THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Frum is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and the author of nine books, the most recent of which is Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic. This week we exchanged emails,…

Nellie Bowles, a New York Times technology reporter recently claimed that it is a “far-right conspiracy” that the “Palestinians Pay $400 million Pensions For Terrorist Families.” She’s wrong.

Peter Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute and the author of Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. Schweizer recently published Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides…

Radley Balko is a writer at the Washington Post, and the author of The Rise of the Warrior Cop. He recently published a new book with Tucker Carrington, The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. This week we spoke about his book, policing, and guns in schools.

Dr. Jordan Peterson, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, is the author of the best-selling title, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. He’s very active in public life: He lectures frequently, engages in televised debates, and produces YouTube videos on a range of political and…

The Southern Poverty Law Center is at it again. In a report on “Male Supremacy,” an ideology that the group says “advocates for the subjugation of women,” it included American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, calling her someone “who gives mainstream and respectable face to some…

Neal Katyal is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a partner at the law firm Hogan Lovells. He has served as acting solicitor general of the United States and orally argued 35 cases before the Supreme Court. Also, he appeared in House of Cards, playing himself. That’s a pretty…

Renowned professor of psychology at Harvard and a prolific writer, Steven Pinker is the author of several prize-winning books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, and The Better Angels of Our Nature. This week Pinker releases a new book, Enlightenment Now: The Case…

“Anthropology 212: Cultural Freedoms: Hate Speech, Blasphemy, and Pornography,” a course on freedom of expression at Princeton University has been “reluctantly” cancelled, Professor Lawrence Rosen informed his students in an email obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Rosen’s email, sent at 2:07 p.m. on…

“Today is the end of [liberal education at Kenyon College],” Fred Baumann, a professor of political science at Kenyon, proclaimed last week to a panel and its audience. The panel had been convened to discuss the retraction of professor and playwright Wendy MacLeod’s latest play, The Good Samaritan.

Every week we ask interesting people what they think President Trump should read. In the past, we've talked with Harvey Mansfield and Ben Shapiro, among others. This week we spoke with Charles J. Sykes, best-selling author of How the Right Lost Its Mind.

Every week we ask interesting people what book they think President Trump should read. In the past, we've talked with Bret Stephens, and Harvey Mansfield, among others. This week we spoke with Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire and author of Project President: Bad Hair and Botox on the…

Every week we ask interesting people what book they think President Trump should read. In the past, we've talked with Bret Stephens and Christina Hoff Sommers, among others. This week we spoke with the political philosopher Harvey C. Mansfield, Professor of Government at Harvard University and…

Zichron Ya'akov, Israel

We ask interesting people what book they think President Trump should read. In the past, we've talked with Garry Kasparov and Chris Matthews, among others. This week we ask Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of Who Stole Feminism? and The War…

The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday on a resolution that rebukes the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, calling it “null and void,” with 128 votes in favor, 9 against, and 35 abstentions.

The Peruvian parliament will vote today on whether Peru’s president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, has a “permanent moral incapacity,” and is unfit to hold office. Before the vote, he will have 60 minutes to defend himself. If found “morally incapable,” Kuczynski could be removed from office as early as…

Every week we ask interesting people what book they think President Trump should read. In the past, we've talked with Bret Stephens and Chris Matthews. This week we ask Garry Kasparov.

I bumped into Chris Matthews on the Acela this past week. He was on tour to promote his new book, Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, I asked the veteran MSNBC anchor about his new book, and about what the president should be reading. “Should the president read your new book?” I asked. Matthews…

This is the first in a weekly series in which we’ll ask someone what they think the president should be reading. This week I spoke with New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2013 and the author of America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the…

On Tuesday night in the fifth and final round of World Cup Qualifiers, Omar Gonzalez, the U.S. Men’s center-back, scored an own-goal just 17 minutes into the match. Demoralizing as own-goals can be, his team’s response made it even worse: With the exception of 19-year old Christian Pulisic, the…