Fred Lucas is a journalist and author who covers politics and government. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2006 and 2017, writing on Republican and Democratic political figures, elections, and policy issues. He has also worked as a White House correspondent and reporter for conservative media outlets.
If Richard Cordray runs for governor of Ohio, he would be the only Democratic candidate with a national fundraising base, the potential to send the progressive grassroots into hyperdrive and the only Democratic candidate that has already twice won statewide races.
One of the lesser-noted lines from Donald Trump’s inaugural address was “We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space.” During his speech to a joint session of Congress a month later, the president said, “American footprints on distant worlds are not too big a…
When Kentucky governor Matt Bevin warmed up the crowd in Louisville ahead of Donald Trump’s speech in March, he seemed to share the president's taste for superlatives:
Democrats were decimated at nearly every level of government over the past six years. Republicans control the House and may well do so for the foreseeable future; the party is looking at a very favorable Senate map in 2018. Democrats control just 31 of the 99 state legislative chambers across the…
At the Biloxi, Mississippi, gathering of the National Governors Association in mid-July, Tennessee's Democratic governor, Phil Bredesen, told the New York Times he feared the Obama-backed health system overhaul would be the "mother of all unfunded mandates." He was speaking from experience.…
When he met in early February with Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, about possibly challenging Sen. Christopher Dodd in Connecticut, Rob Simmons was a little skeptical about his chances against the five-term senator in a Democratic state. But then an RSCC…
Mitch McConnell's will to win, developed at an early age, fell short when as president of the Student Bar Association at the University of Kentucky law school he failed in his effort to institute a student honor code. It was a major defeat in his early political life. "I laid my prestige on the…
LOWELL WEICKER PUT HIS CANE aside and thrust his heavy 6'6" frame up the stairs. Now 74, the former senator had a knee replacement last year, but as he stepped up to the pulpit at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, Connecticut, one Sunday afternoon in late January, he seemed anything but…