Andrew Evans is a writer who contributed to The Weekly Standard between 2012 and 2015. His articles for the magazine covered a range of domestic and international policy topics, including religious freedom, healthcare policy, and political protest movements.
While a pair of former GOP governors are dominating the news in the early stages of the 2016 presidential race, no fewer than six sitting Republican governors appear to be positioning themselves for presidential bids. Each of them—like every governor—has had to decide whether to accept or decline…
A group of protestors gathered this afternoon outside the Russian ambassador’s Washington residence to protest the jailing of the three Russian punk rock musicians from the group Pussy Riot. The musicians—Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29—were sentenced…
The State Department released its annual International Religious Freedom Report last week, and Hillary Clinton made some remarks on the subject at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace that same day. Clinton's comments toed the standard line on the surface, but they are more interesting in…