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Plus, the hero America needs.

Plus, when Mission Impossible meets Paddington Bear.

No ribbons for participation here.

Plus, why Alan Greenberg's memos were great.

National Landing just made a huge mistake.

Plus, will teens ruined 'boxed Tide?'

Plus, one easy way to kill a platform.

Plus, Halloween disaster!

Plus, news you can use for Texans.

Many on the right are drifting toward him.

Plus, who are the "Proud Boys?"

Plus, why Gavin McInnes is a baddie.

Literal Fake News.

Plus, the U.S. mercenaries of Yemen.

Plus, meet "The Bulwark."

Plus, Isaiah Crowell's new butt wipes.

Plus, will eScooters survive the regulators?

Plus, why you should always read the story.

Plus, Cleveland's greatest bar chain turns 35.

Plus, introducing the Secretary of Swagger.

Michael Moore's film festival is getting sued for stiffing a contractor.

Plus, since Congress has solved all the big problems...

Plus, what are evangelicals afraid of losing?

Plus, the best inning of the season?

Plus, a Detroit-style Coney Island pizza?

Plus, the phone booth baby finds his mom.

Plus, how the CIA blew its cover in China.

Plus, the man behind KFILE.

Plus, move over Paw Patrol.

Plus, a nugget catastrophe.

Plus, Angus King's Instagram book.

Plus, don't let the kids run social if you're a serious organization.

Plus, make light bulbs great again!

Plus, who owns a Twitter account?

Plus, why one vet thinks it's time to retire the Blue Angels. (He's wrong.)

Plus, fun with roads!

Plus, we snagged a telephone scammer.

Plus, when you should leave the ballpark.

Plus, when airline CEOs sit in the cheap seats.

Plus, how abortion polls.

Plus, Chick-fil-A at home?!

Plus, can Congressional Aides be happy?

Plus, Philip Van Cleave's suspect defense.

Plus, Elon Musk steps in it.

And how the Thai soccer team was rescued.

Plus, Jon Kyl the sherpa.

Plus, D.C. dive bars are dying.

Plus, introducing TWS Access!

Greetings from the Midwestern Bureau of TWS. We’re dark this week, as regular readers know, but we’re not taking the week off! The website must go on. A number of Standard writers and editors are back in their non-swamp ancestral homes for the Fourth. I’m in Saint Louis, where I went to college…

Plus, why dogs and politics are a dumb mix.

Plus, Corey Stewart touts his latest endorsement. But why?

Plus, Jerry Springer finds the end of the road.

Plus, why can't the Trump administration hire normal people?

Plus, when 'all you can eat' goes wrong.

Plus, why Kelly Cohen is a treasure.

Plus, why Kelly Cohen is a treasure.

The GOP had a chance to get Trump’s border wall (and much, much, more) back in 2007. They blew it.

Plus, go inside the converted Walmart that houses immigrant kids.

Plus, is Trump everything Republicans worried Obama was?

Plus, why lit George Conway is the best George Conway.

Plus, Dinesh D'Souza's new movie.

Plus, the Instaglam candidate strikes again.

Plus, are the #CAPS going to win it all?

Plus, we're baaaack!

Plus, Title IX... forever?

Plus, the British Virgin Islands Marlins?

Plus, a celebrity gets arrested.

Plus, the new New York time.

Plus, the new New York time.

Plus, why Trey Gowdy hated his time in Congress.

Be careful what you wish for. Comedian Owen Benjamin spent yesterday on Twitter saying very not-nice things about one of the survivors of the Parkland school shooting. I won't link to them here because this is a family-friendly newsletter, but part of his schtick was taunting that he can't be…

Amtrak ends charter rides. Did you know that you can hitch your own train cars to an Amtrak train? Granted, not many among us have privately-owned rail cars, a novelty for the richest among us, but some do. Anyways, this practice, the Wall Street Journal reports, is going bye-bye:

How did your team do on opening day? Well, I hope. My Cleveland Indians weren't able to pull out a W in Seattle. But here's a neat story for you I heard yesterday as I was driving home: Michaela Murphy's hilarious tale about her unsupervised childhood trip to the 1981 All Star Game at old Cleveland…

How Kirk Gibson inspired a bunch of future Nationals fans. Since it is Opening Day, we're going to have a few baseball stories. This one from 2016 by Rudy Gersten is worth checking out. It's about Kirk Gibson's's famous 1988 World Series home run, a ball that hit Gersten's aunt Pamela, a fact they…

How to win a trade war. (Hint: the winning move is not to play, per War Games.) Over at FiveThirtyEight, there is a fun game letting you conduct your own trade war. Enjoy!

23 Years Later, Man Returns to Groundskeeping Job With White Sox. This Chicago Tribune story about Nevest Coleman's wrongful conviction is heartbreaking. For a man so wronged, it's heartening to see that the White Sox were eager to offer him his old job back.

'Grandma Torino' Pleads Guilty. In Macon, Georgia, a grandmother pled guilty to shooting a teenager in the head. Why? Because he supposedly threw rocks at her house. My old college professor Chris Lawrence has dubbed her "Grandma Torino", after the movie she apparently didn't watch, of course.

The Facebook Apology Tour. Earlier this morning I joined our managing editor Christine Rosen on the Daily Standard Podcast to discuss the Zuckerberg walk of shame. Do have a listen! Some supplementary reading: Nick Gillespie at Reason makes the same point I do about regulating FB, and over at the…

I am not typically late for things. Except, one morning in March of last year, I was running late to a doctor’s appointment for my wife and me. She was already there, having let me sleep in since I had been up late the night before. Not for work or anything. But to watch Team Israel in the World…

"Toys R Us’s baby problem is everybody’s baby problem" Was it really private equity that did in Toys "R" Us? Or was it demographics? That's what Andrew Van Dam argues at the Washington Post:

What's in the most recent issue? Editor in chief Stephen F. Hayes is here to show you what is in this week's issue.

Happy Friday! We have a lovely new issue out, with the cover story by former TWSer, current Free Beacon bigwig, and Weekly Substandard podcast co-host Sonny Bunch. It’s about the abundance of television #content available to people in the present day. Will any/much of this content endure, or is…

I don't want to grow up... But poor Geoffrey the Giraffe will have to, as Toys "R" Us bids adieu after a 61-year run. (Bankruptcy is causing them to close all of their stores.) I loved TRU as a kid, and my first and only magazine casual has a tie-in. Alas, all good brands eventually die. Something…

It's been a tumultuous year for the digital currency markets. Now that we're a few weeks away from tax day, a friendly reminder: Don't forget your digital currency trades!

Farewell, Mostly Weekly! My good friend Andrew Heaton’s web show at Reason comes to an end, like all good things do. In the final episode, Heaton takes on creative destruction, and then destroys his own show. Creative!

What's in this week's issue? Editor in chief Stephen F. Hayes has a breakdown of what is in this week's issue:

“Having a liberal fantasy is complicated.” The New York Times interviewed an Ohio man who, after President Trump was elected, opted to take extreme measures to stay up on precisely none of the news. (Well, except Cleveland Cavaliers basketball.) Lots of folks have thinkpieces out on this…

Drunk Area Man Struck By His Own Car. In my neck of the woods in Fairfax County, Virginia, a drunk driver tried escaping from his car on foot to thwart the police . . . only to be struck by his own car.

What’s the latest in this week’s issue? Here’s our editor in chief Stephen F. Hayes on what is in the latest edition of this week's magazine:

ProPublica has uncovered what appears to be an unethical—and likely—illegal act performed by an employee of the president's privately held golf course empire.

It’s a blustery day in Washington. My neighbors have had their siding blown off, and our dog has determined he is aerodynamic. The federal government shut down, schools are closed, and a large swath of flights to and from the swamp are being canceled. Therefore, I will try and make today’s links a…

Ben Carson’s new silverware. Ironically, Ben Carson might not get to enjoy his newly refurbished office at HUD for very long, if recent history is our guide. This from CNN:

Can a GoFundMe Bring Back a Beloved Theme Park? Probably not. But that’s not stopping a man in my native Cleveland who wants to bring back the famous Geauga Lake theme park. He’s started a GoFundMe to raise $20 million bucks to start bringing the park back. That’s a fraction of price you’d need to…

Buckley's legacy, 10 years later. William F. Buckley, Jr. died 10 years ago today, so here's some worthwhile #content from the TWS archives you should read to remember the late great conservative heavyweight.

What's in this week's issue? Get a preview of our articles and features in this video from editor in chief Stephen F. Hayes:

Work with ICE? Nah, I quit. You all remember Kim Davis, don't you? She was the woman in Kentucky who refused to do her job (and refused to quit) because she disagreed with the Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage. Davis was an inherently flawed spokeswoman for traditional marriage.

You can get away with a lot if you're a bullsh*tter... Our Books and Arts editor Adam Keiper shares this fascinating thread about a Reddit user who BS'd his way to lots of internet karma... by making a ton of stuff up. He even gave a speech at Harvard about his "accomplishments."

The Issue with Steve Hayes. Want to know what is in this week's magazine? Lucky for you, our editor Steve Hayes is putting together a brief video preview. Check it out here.

Steal, Eagles, Steal! If your team hadn't won a title in 58 years, wouldn't you steal a chair? This Eagles fan (read: NOT JVL) did, and got off easy: $125. If you can afford going to the Super Bowl, $125 for a memento like this is an absolute steal, if you'll pardon the pun.

Day Zero approaches in Cape Town. This Guardian feature about the water crisis in South Africa is fascinating.

Wawa Shabbawa? Yep, that's what it sounds like: Shabbat at a Wawa. A local performance artist, Brian Feldman, came up with the concept. Turns out nobody really went because they're obsessed with Wawa, like Feldman is. Now, a Shabbat at a Sheetz? That's another matter entirely. They'd probably have…

Reince Priebus, Sith Lord. Vanity Fair has a delightful (profanity laced) interview with Anthony Scaramucci about his brief tenure in the White house. Mooch's take on Washington is so wrong, it's laughable:

Forget Detroit, let's all move to Italy. During the economic crisis, there were hundreds of stories written about distressed properties in Michigan. Now, in Sardinia, you can buy homes for $2. Of course, there are strings attached. As Thrillist reports:

The end of video? When I was younger, I recall a photoshop the Sidney (Ohio) Daily News did on the front page of Tonya Harding becoming a wrestler. The story was about the wonders of digital photo editing technology, and was essentially the first "fake news" I ever saw. Now, such technology is…

It's about the infrastructure, stupid! Tonight's State of the Union address is rumored to be heavy on the infrastructure spending rhetoric. At Reason, Christian Britschgi observes "The point of infrastructure spending is to build infrastructure, not create jobs." Amen.

The end of the Chief Wahoo era. Given my lifelong Cleveland Indians fandom, Chief Wahoo has long been part of my sports wardrobe. The New York Times reports that Wahoo's reign as team logo ends in 2019, the year Cleveland will again host the MLB All-Star Game. The trademarks will still be owned by…

Charlie and the Tide Pod Challenge. Over at McSweeney's, there's some fine content (as usual) mocking the young kids who are sticking Tide pods in their mouths.

Kids these days... Don't know how to code all too well, according to a report by HackerRank. As TheNextWeb reports:

Uncovering the TUSD Deep State. Imagine if your local school district had a secret document. The purpose of this document is to blacklist and retaliate against employees. That's what the Arizona Daily Star's Hank Stephenson uncovered at the Tucson Unified School District.

Thrusters, go! Apollo 13 it's not, but NASA found out a way last month to fire up thrusters on the ancient Voyager spacecraft that haven't been used in 37 years. It's a neat story:

Today is the March for Life, the annual pro-life demonstration that takes place around the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. In a first, President Trump addressed the rally via satellite from the Rose Garden. (George W. Bush addressed the group over the phone.) It's worth considering Trump's…

Does America really have only 11 main cultures? That's what a new map by Colin Woodard suggests, and it has lots of people arguing. I grew up in Yankeedom (Cleveland), went to school in the Midlands (Saint Louis), and now live in Tidewater. Naturally, Saint Louis and Cleveland are more similar to…

How China infiltrated the U.S. classroom. Over at POLITICO, our own Ethan Epstein has a good look at how China has used soft power to exert influence with American students via funding "Confucius Institutes."

Will the reboot of 'The Office' be woke? And if so, will it be funny? Reason's Ed Krayewski asks "at what point will The Office become problematic?" Turns out, those thinkpieces have already been written. From February of last year, there's: Unpopular Opinion: “The Office” Is Very Problematic in…

The Amish help build America's biggest concerts. Who would have thought that some of the most technologically advanced live music shows out there are brought to you, in part, by Lancaster County's Amish population:

Mmmmm. Delicious Laundry Pods. As we know from science™, laundry pods are unlikely to kill you. But that hasn't stopped folks from wanting to regulate the innovative little cleaning pods. Canada, as behind as it often is, has a tweet asking Canadians if they know the health risks of consuming…

C is for Crazy Children's Books. There's a new book project being hawked on Kickstarter called C is for Consent: "a board book for babies, toddlers, and thoughtful parents." Consent is important, but is this really an appropriate concept for babies and toddlers? Especially given that the term…

There's no such thing as a free gift! When I worked in Congress as an aide, I took a meeting with representatives of a foreign government about trade issues. They gave us all little business card holders as de minimis gifts. An older colleague, after the meeting ended, took all of them and threw…

Pave Breezewood. I'm back from my trip to Cleveland (where I covered the Browns #PerfectSeasonParade), and as is tradition, I had to drive through the godforsaken town of Breezewood, Pennsylvania. Over at the Examiner, Salena Zito has an appreciation of the place. One thing's for sure, having…

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Three pros vs. 100 kids. Japanese television always seems to have strange innovations, so it should come as no surprise that they recorded three professional soccer players playing 100 kids. Fascinating.

Remember "Juicero"? Get ready for "Raw Water." The Silicon Valley company mocked for its pointless technology replicating squeezing (really) is in the news again after one of its founders was quoted in a New York Times story about "raw water." It is dumber than it sounds:

Roy Moore's "Jewish lawyer" voted for Doug Jones. You remember the trainwreck where Kayla Moore brought up their Jewish lawyer as a rebuttal to charges of anti-semitism? He voted for Doug Jones. Not only that, he raised money for him, too!

Are you a bitcoin billionaire? After today, probably not (too soon?), but Remy has another instant classic over at ReasonTV.

Fun times in Richmond! As regular readers are aware, yesterday Chris Deaton reported on the Virginia House of Delegates race that was ultimately decided by one vote. Or was it? Republican David Yancey went into the recount leading by 10 votes over Democrat Shelly Simonds. But then seemingly lost by…

The Empire is good. If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, do watch this video confirming Jonathan Last's 2002 opus.

Shame worked in Alabama. That's what Tom Nichols argues over at the Washington Post:

How will tax reform impact you? It hasn't passed just yet, but it just might! The New York Times has a basic calculator worth checking out. And Maxim Lott has one that's a little more advanced. Neither are perfect, but worth examining to get a broad sense of how the tax reform bill might benefit or…

What to watch tonight. If you're looking for something new and interesting to put on tonight, check out Errol Morris's Wormwood tonight on Netflix. It looks fantastic. The Times gave it a positive review, saying:

Virginia Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott has been accused of sexual harassment by a woman who served in his office.

#Adulting is hard! CNN has an unintentionally funny look at 26-year-old "new" adults who are having trouble leaving the nest and finding health insurance.

Ranking the best national chains. Tom Sietsema, the Washington Post's food critic, spent some time at D.C.-area chain restaurants. His rankings are as critical as they are for D.C.'s finest food purveyors. Biggest loser? Buffalo Wild Wings. Biggest winner? Cracker Barrel. Sonny Bunch's favorite,…

How we got here with Roy Moore. On Twitter, Alex Burns has a (sad!) look back at how the GOP arrived at today's predicament with Roy Moore. It's a choose your own adventure. Remember those? Except with this one, Republicans always lose.

The end of free speech? Katherine Mangu-Ward at Reason has an excellent cover story about how "the left eats its own and the right shows its true colors." Here's my favorite part:

Newman's Own's future depends on what happens in tax reform. I've always had a special place in my heart for the late actor Paul Newman, whose childhood home was three streets over from mine. His charity/business, however, is at risk of being put out of business if a provision isn't included in the…

Gaming TripAdvisor. Surely, you've used sites like Yelp!, TripAdvisor, or others when visiting strange news places. What if one of the top-rated restaurants there was a complete fake? That's what VICE UK's Oobah Butler, a clever prankster, did with his backyard shed:

Sir, we have to land over there so I can use the bathroom. A non-stop flight from New York to Seattle had to divert to Billings, Montana because its toilets were full, the Billings Gazette reports:

The Lake Erie salt mine 1,700 feet beneath the lake is a modern marvel. Growing up in Cleveland, I had heard about this mine, but this was pre-YouTube and the modern internet that can showcase it in all its glory. Check out the video and the interview, it's pretty neat.

Neil Young dings Apple, releases high quality archive for free. Neil Young is not happy with Apple, whom he accuses of watering down the quality of digital music. Fortunately, he has made his archive available, offering high quality master copies of his work via streaming:…

Mike Flynn's RNC speech didn't age well! Vic Berger helps us remember a simpler time, when rhetoric was rhetoric and you didn't have to worry about the pesky special counsel.

White people love Subarus. Google's spy cars have documented the "street view" of much of the United States (and the rest of the world). But what are some applications of all of this data scientists could use? Google's folks decided to analyze the types of cars parked on the street to see if they…

Fly the friendly skies! Some airlines are better than others, but all airlines have some great flight attendants. American Airlines has Bette Nash, who, at 81, has been in the industry for 60 years. Turns out, she's also a bit of a celebrity! The Washington Post has a fun feature on her:

WaPo O'Keefes Project Veritas. What happens when one of the right wing's best known provocateurs gets caught? He spins. This is what happened Monday when the Washington Post kneecapped Project Veritas's James O'Keefe, posting an absolutely bombshell story alleging that O'Keefe sent an activist…

Can you hear me now? Apparently, one of president Trump's top economic advisors faked a bad connection while in a meeting with Democratic senators on tax reform to get the President to stop talking. Yikes.

J is for Jihad, and S is for Stupid Children's Books. As a new father, I have already seen the crazy amount of stupid products made for children. The biggest offending category is actually children's books, many of which are terrible. Some are just poorly written, but others are worse: They are…

Occupational Licensing Stinks. At the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf laments the declining right to earn a living. While criticism of occupational licensing is not a new or novel concept (we've covered it extensively), I did learn something sort of horrifying: Tree trimmers and cosmetologists in some…

With Thanksgiving approaching, can't we all agree? Thanksgiving is a tough time for the politically inclined (even worse for the disinclined, I suspect!) This year, I think we can all come together and put our disagreements aside to agree on a simple truth: mayonnaise is disgusting.

Earlier this week, we published a scorecard of where Republican senators stood on the allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. With the #MeToo campaign hitting the other side of the aisle in the upper chamber—Al Franken has been accused by news anchor Leeann Tweeden of groping and…

Trump already to the left of Obama on trade? At the Daily Beast, Lachlan Markay has an item on how the Trump White House is welcoming the far-left trade skeptics that Barack Obama's administration left out in the cold. One need only look at the folks President Trump has appointed on trade,…

Creepy Christianity and Roy Moore. Yesterday, we looked at some of the concerning behavior and statements of religious figures in Alabama concerning Roy Moore. There are, if you'll forgive, moore things to report. And they're not good.

Let's talk about bad preachers. Because some are sticking by Roy Moore, and hoo boy, does one in particular have some very unpreacherlike things to say.

Don't you miss baseball? Yes, the people who update you constantly, starting in November, about how many days until spring training are a little weird, and you should have an offseason, but it's easy to miss something once it's gone. To that end, Bill Kristol announced the two winners of his…

Since there's a lot to cover today, like why Roy Moore shouldn't ever be a member of the U.S. Senate, please accept my condensed afternoon links.

Greta Van Susteren, APP Baron? You of course remember Greta from her long tenures on CNN and Fox News and her brief one on MSNBC, right? Now, she's about to release an "APP" that she wants you to install on your phone. It's called Sorry:

All Hail the Middle Man. (Or at least this one.) Meet Ryan Grant, a 28 year old who raids the clearance aisle at big box stores, and upsells items as a third party seller on Amazon. He started doing this to make some side hustle money, but then quit his job in accounting to do it full time. It…

Manafort, Paul Manafort. As folks comb through the Manafort papers, some interesting things are popping up. Like the fact the Manafort had three valid U.S. passports. Now, cyber security experts are hinting that Manafort's password for file-sharing sites was "bond007."

Airport conspiracy. One of Harvey Weinstein's accusers, actress Rose McGowan, was recently served with an arrest warrant for cocaine posession. McGowan was earlier locked out of her Twitter account related to her allegations, saying: "TWITTER HAS SUSPENDED ME. THERE ARE POWERFUL FORCES AT WORK. BE…

The Substandard is LIVE. Are you a fan of our pop culture podcast, the Substandard? If so, you might be interested to know that they do a Facebook livestream of their podcast (in part) each week. Here is the latest.

The Afternoon Links are back! Where have they been, you ask? Regular readers of other TWS newsletters (JVL, Kristol Clear) know: I'm now a proud father of twin girls. They are a handful, but the dog has taken to them! If only he could hold a bottle ... So, fret not, the Afternoon Links are back,…

The Capital Bikeshare killer is here. Bike sharing programs are increasingly popular in big cities, and Washington was an early adopter with its Capital Bikeshare program. (The keys even look like little communist flags!) The program got started with millions in subsidies from the government, and…

Massacre in Vegas. When tragedy strikes, there's a lot of misinformation out there. It's always best to sit back and wait (usually not very long) until the truth is reported. Here are three things to read today (if you're up to it) about the mass shooting in Las Vegas:

The Brady Campaign's Brass Balls. House majority whip Steve Scalise went back to work yesterday, and it was an emotional day on Capitol Hill. But, to paraphrase Rahm Emanuel, you never want to let a crisis go to waste. Insert the anti-gun Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Here's their welcome…

Space comes to Wisconsin. I'm a huge fan of the website Atlas Obscura. Every neat place I've wanted to visit (especially abandoned things) is on there, and many places I've visited have been because of their site. Part of my bucket list is derived from there, too. Their newsletter is a welcome…

Is Jared Kushner trolling us? News reports are out saying that Jared Kushner is registered to vote in New York... as a female. Left-leaning groups are pointing to this as an example of Kushner's incompetence (and to be fair he did repeatedly make flubs on forms needed to serve as a top adviser to…

Can we send the Boy Scouts an economics textbook? I love popcorn. It's my favorite snack. I was also a Cub Scout once, and selling Trail's End popcorn was my least-favorite fundraising activity. (Selling magazine subscriptions for my Catholic grade school was much easier.) My mom, saint that she…

Here's a joke. It's from the late Mitch Hedberg: "I write jokes for a living, I sit at my hotel at night, I think of something that's funny, then I go get a pen and I write it down. Or if the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny." Mitch's jokes tended to…

Can the former head of the College Democrats win a seat as... a Republican? At POLITICO Magazine, Tim Alberta has a great feature on Wisconsin's Kevin Nicholson. A veteran with a great resume, Nicholson wants to snatch up Sen. Tammy Baldwin's seat. But first, he has to convince GOP voters in…

This online psychic cleaned up. Down in Texas, a Democratic state legislator is facing trial for misdemeanor charges for a few of a series of accused fraudulent acts. This story is all kinds of crazy. The legislator is Dawnna Dukes, who is in her 12th term in the Texas House. Here's a taste of the…

YOU get a baby, YOU get a baby, EVERYONE GETS A BABY! If you're not hip to the popular memes kids are using, that's an Oprah reference. Amazon mistakenly sent out an email to lots of people yesterday—perhaps hundreds of thousands—suggesting somebody bought something off of their (in most cases…

Lasers to the rescue. One of the beautiful parts about my commute into Washington, D.C., from suburban Virginia is crossing the Potomac. Before we moved offices in 2015, I'd drive by the Lincoln Memorial every day. It was like living in a movie. Now, even though our new office is merely two streets…

Before you spend $2 billion on your own submarine... Read this! Only a few hundred individuals on this rock have the spare cash to drop on such a craft, but still, Bloomberg Pursuits has a feature on this privately made submarine. Might be good for preppers, one would think, until you read that:…

What the media won't show you about the lawnmower kid... A click-baity Facebook page affiliated with conservative blog Independent Journal Review is being mocked for suggesting that media wouldn't show photos of the 11-year-old boy the White House used as a PR ploy mowing the White House lawn.…

Species, are like a construct, man. If you're a Twitter addict like I am, one account you must follow is New Real Peer Review. They showcase amazing academic papers that will totally blow your mind. From a Ph.D thesis they showcased on Tuesday by Megan Molenda LeMay, here's an out-of-this-world…

Can the bodega be killed? Probably not. But two ex-Googlers (ugh) want to try, per a write up from Fast Company:

About that iPhone presentation... It's been 10 years since Apple deployed its first overhyped phone, so how about a reunion of sorts. (How much money have you given Apple in the last 10 years? Maybe don't overthink that ...) In January of 2007 the iPhone debuted, and Steve Jobs gave a public hype…

Here's a long read for you. Over at Wired UK, there's a very interesting read on the future of urban warfare. Here's the teaser: "Cheap Chinese-made sensors. Mad Max-style vehicle mods. Consumer drones turned into mortar-dropping weapons. The fight against Daesh is showing the high-tech, higher…

We're going to 20! My Cleveland Indians are red hot right now, having won 15 games in a row. Impressively, the Indians also won 14 straight last season. An Ohio roofing and window company celebrating its 15th anniversary thought it'd be a fun contest to offer customers a 100 percent refund on work…

Trumpism corrupts, Kurt Schlichter edition. I hope Jonathan V. Last will forgive me, but I'd like to add another case to the "Trumpism Corrupts" dossier. It's Townhall.com's Kurt Schlichter. A former Army colonel and a trial lawyer who was a little-known writer in the late 1990s and early 2000s,…

All hail the price gougers. As Irma bears down on Florida, people are stocking up on bottled water. Let's recall not but a week or so ago when, in the wake of Harvey, people were using social media to shame those who sold bottled water at a price they were not used to. Or, now, let's look at social…

James Madison’s Lesson on Free Speech. Over at National Review, our own Jay Cost has a look back at James Madison, free speech, and the times in which we find ourselves with antifa and the alt-right running around. Here's Cost: "None of this means that we should excuse the boorish and ignorant…

Read the latest issue of TWS! Matt Labash's cover story on the Antifa in Berkeley is going viral and for good reason, it's a must read. David Rutz at the Free Beacon says: "You'll never regret taking the time to read Matt Labash." Truer words have never been spoken. But don't stop at Labash, the…

Men's studies actually exists, but not for the reason you think. I was confused at first when I saw that a college actually had a men's studies department. The idea of "men's studies" is usually a trope used to bash the existence of "women's studies" and is (usually) not a serious proposal. Yet,…

The Waffle House way. In times of disaster, it's pretty rare for a Waffle House to close. The company is famous for its disaster response, keeping stores open on a limited menu to keep people dry, warm, fed, and happy. In Houston, two stores have closed, but the company's disaster apparatus jumped…

Are you smarter than a college student? This was the favorite tactic Fox News's Jesse Watters employed on Bill O'Reilly's former show. Watters would go out and embarrass college students to show how smart he was and how dumb they were with man-on-the-street interviews. Mediaite caught Watters, who…

I love grocery shopping, so much so that two weeks ago I drove three hours round-trip to see the German grocer Lidl's foray into the U.S. And so naturally, on Monday, I went to check out Whole Foods on the day that Amazon’s purchase took effect.

'Whole Paycheck' no more? Amazon has come in and taken charge of Whole Foods, and their first order of business is to roll back prices like D-FENS in Falling Down. (Minus the racism, of course.) The once-online-only giant plans to integrate the Whole Foods supply chain into their Prime Pantry…

On the eve of Hurricane Harvey making landfall in Corpus Christi, President Trump pardoned former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Baseball badassery. A lot of people (wrongly) think baseball is a soft sport. It's true that, unlike football or hockey, there's not a lot of fighting. Of course, getting beaned with a 100 mph fastball is no picnic. But when there is fighting in baseball, it's a big deal. So, yesterday as we put…

Safe spaces and 'ze' badges. Scottish student Madeleine Kearns writes in the Spectator about her bewildering first year at a U.S. college, where she and other free thinkers felt compelled to create their own unsafe space: "We met in a disused convent in Hell’s Kitchen and discussed campus-censored…

In a series of tweets, the Republican Party of Virginia attacked Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam on Wednesday for calling for the removal of Confederate statues.

What a bore. Are you a Tesla fanboy? So much so that you pressure your friends into buying one of the heavily subsidized electric sports cars so you can get referral points? (They are expensive!) Well, you're in luck. The fine minds at Tesla have launched a new incentive to further motivate you:…

Over at CBS News, frequent TWS contributor Michael Graham has a column on the dilemma of Afghanistan. "The bad news for President Trump," Graham writes "is that Afghanistan is a no-win proposition: Stay, and you keep losing American lives and treasure. Go, and you risk a future attack planned in…

Did you get to see totality? Most of you didn't, but our own Chris Deaton was back home in the Midwest and posted this beautiful shot, just post-totality, from Elkton, Ky. Chris reports that "The total eclipse looked like the end of days." In Washington, it was sort of a bust unless you had a…

Can you hear me now? Unfortunately, not too well if you're one of the diplomats previously stationed in Cuba, due to hearing loss resulting from a covert sonic device. At the Free Beacon, Adam Kredo and Susan Crabtree report that the U.S. government is hiding key details about these mystery attacks.

ISSUE 5! The American Original, the McLaughlin Group, is back. . . . Or is it? And while John McLaughlin has left the earth, a new pilot episode has just been released with our Washington Examiner colleague Tom Rogan as host. Rogan, a former panelist, considered McLaughlin a mentor . . . but didn't…

Must free trade come with social justice? That's what Canada is saying, reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown reports."[A]s we head into NAFTA renegotiations this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his administration want to expand the rules to include sections on gender issues, climate…

Nice little show you got there... In Boston, a bizarre extortion trial involving movie-stereotype union Teamsters and celebrities from the hit television show Top Chef resulted in a verdict of not guilty for the Teamsters. Interestingly, "at least three witnesses testified that a top [mayoral] aide…

Helicopter commuting used to be something even middle class New Yorkers could afford. That is, until a fatal crash at the Pan Am building killed multiple people. With the rise of Uber, BusinessWeek documents the resurgence of affordable helicopter travel in Gotham.

More than a few times in recent years, tragic—and seemingly preventable—deaths have led to bills and legislation named after the victims. “Megan’s Law” gave us problematic sex-offender registrations. “Kate’s Law” was a failed attempt to deter illegal immigration. Such proposals are frequently bad…

Following surgery to treat a blood clot above his eye, Senator John McCain's office announced that a brain cancer known as glioblastoma was detected:

In the wake of Philando Castile's death at the hands of a police officer in Minnesota, much is being said about whether the National Rifle Association should have weighed in.

Any given weekday, there are about 20,000 people in the United States Capitol complex—which has nearly 20 buildings sprawled over nearly 300 acres. Across those many buildings, there are dozens of tunnels, nooks, crannies, and thousands of different rooms. It's a daunting place and difficult to…

What does France have against the free press?

Since the repeal of Prohibition, most regulations pertaining to the sale and distribution of alcohol has been left to the states under the "three tier" system of distribution, in which manufacturers sell to distributors and control boards, who sell to retailers, who sell to the public according to…

Pepsi's unintentionally brilliant marketing campaign with Kendall Jenner was derided by leftists as a for-profit appropriation, namely of #Resist and #BlackLivesMatter.

I had to use my DVR to catch it: the first instance of Major League Baseball's new no-pitch intentional walk.

The impending filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch continues apace, but one Democrat is on record questioning whether Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer's plan to return the favor after the Senate GOP stymied Merrick Garland's nomination will backfire.

A day before President Trump is slated to address the nation before a joint session of Congress (note: Not a State of the Union), Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi addressed reporters at the National Press Club to offer a prebuttal.

Alabama's Jeff Sessions was confirmed by the Senate as President Trump's attorney general Wednesday night by a 52 to 47 vote.

For the remainder of Tuesday night and for most of Wednesday, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren is prohibited from debating on the floor of the Senate. That's because her Senate colleagues found her guilty of impugning another senator, Jeff Sessions, whose nomination for attorney general is…

The Trump administration's emercency motion requesting an immediate stay of a Washington federal court's restraining order of President Trump's immigration executive order has been denied.

A federal judge in Seattle has issued a temporary ruling which halts Donald Trump's recent travel ban executive order.

"An old pro told me that originality does not consist of saying what has never been said before; it consists of saying what you have to say that you know to be the truth."— Harvey Penick

President Donald Trump has relieved Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who instructed DOJ employees not to defend his executive order on halting entry by immigrants to the United States from certain countries.

Acting attorney general Sally Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, has ordered DOJ attorneys not to defend President Trump's controversial executive order which temporarily bans those from seven countries, from entering the country. The countries were chosen as part of the Visa Waiver…

The first Twitter transition, it seems, while seamless at the top-level @POTUS account, isn't so among the many hundreds, if not thousands, of Twitter-verified executive branch accounts.

Joining ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, editor at large Bill Kristol expressed cautious optimism with Donald Trump's cabinet picks, and reiterated concern with Trump following his Twitter battle with Georgia Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

Testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA director nominee and Kansas Republican Mike Pompeo, was grilled by newly elected Senator Kamala Harris of California over the Central Intelligence Agency's human resources and employee benefits policies regarding gays and lesbians…

Normally, when one hears left-leaning members of Congress complain about outsourcing to save money, it usually is directed at a corporation.

Earlier Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus told host John Dickerson that President-elect Trump is going to abide by his promise not to reform entitlement programs:

CNN reports:

Donald Trump's transition team has tapped Fox News personality Monica Crowley as "Senior Director of Strategic Communications for the National Security Council." Politico reported earlier today that Fox had terminated Crowley's contract in anticipation of her appointment.

The New York Times reports that former Clinton campaign manager John Podesta's email was hacked by Russian hackers because an aide mistyped a reply:

The Wall Street Journal reports that President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington to the position of Secretary of the Interior.

The Huffington Post polling database shows that Donald Trump has shaken his longstanding unfavorable ratings following his election victory.

At National Review, Neal Freeman interviews our very own Philip Terzian, detailing his tenure as literary editor of THE WEEKLY STANDARD:

A decision by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has desk toy enthusiasts rejoicing. Buckyballs, the toys sold as a collection of 100 to 200 rare earth magnets that can be made into a myriad of designs, are legal again. And after fighting the Obama administration's Consumer Product Safety…

With a three-to-one series lead in the World Series, the Cleveland Indians now face a game seven at home Wednesday against the Chicago Cubs after a 9 to 3 loss Tuesday against ace Jake Arrietta.

If the election weren't bad enough already, those living what Washington Free Beacon managing editor Sonny Bunch calls "the politicized life" have taken their virtue signaling fight to... beer.

In his final days as the minority leader and with the Democrats on the verge of retaking a majority in the chamber, Harry Reid suggested that FBI Director James Comey potentially violated the Hatch Act in a letter, after praising his work on the Clinton email scandal earlier this year. It's the…

Over at Commentary, Max Boot has some enlightening analysis of the fight to retake Mosul, and why the Republican nominee's comments are foolish:

With Donald Trump's path to the White House looking less likely by the day, Republicans are rightly worried about maintaining control of the U.S. Senate should Hillary Clinton become president.

When asked by moderator Chris Wallace Tuesday about his repeated claims that the election was "rigged" and whether he would accept the results of the election should he lose, Donald Trump replied: "I'll look at it at the time."

A new undercover video series from conservative investigator and provocateur James O'Keefe is already shaking up the 2016 race. The stated goal of O'Keefe's "Rigging the Election" series is unveiling the "dark secrets at the highest levels of the DNC and Clinton presidential campaign" and within…

The latest CNN/ORC polls, released Monday, show bad news for Republican Senate candidates in the battleground states of Nevada and North Carolina, following strong numbers in thoes states for Democrat Hillary Clinton.

After John Podesta's apparently hacked emails were leaked by WikiLeaks, the Clinton campaign finds itself under fire after documents showed aides discussing ways to undermine the Catholic church.

Contributing editor and WEEKLY STANDARD movie critic John Podhoretz joined C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb on Q&A to discuss his career as a film critic and editor, movies, and how they've shaped the political landscape.

In Tuesday's vice presidential debate, one of the closing questions for Senator Tim Kaine and Governor Mike Pence was about their personal faith and potential conflicts with their roles as elected officials.

In his opening statement at Tuesday's vice presidential debate in Farmville, Virginia, Senator Tim Kaine said:

On a crisp fall day as the scent of burning firewood tickles one's nose, a flock of Canada geese flies through the dusk sky, the birds' trademark honks punctuating the breeze. This could be an encouraging image, because the best part about Canada geese is when they leave.

Ferris Bueller famously quipped "A person should not believe in an ism, he should believe in himself." But people do believe in isms—and a few of them are at odds with the isms prized by the ruling political classes.

Everything needs a reboot these days. Classic movies, bad movies, television series, and now, apparently, bad college mascots.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday tomorrow, actor George Clooney told anchor Chris Wallace that "It's a very funny thing, odd for me to be on the same side of an issue as Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer and George Will and people like that," noting that "usually we're not on the same side."

Liberal members of the California Assembly are outraged today after Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would eliminate sales taxes on women's hygiene products. Proponents of the bill have misleadingly dubbed their bill as a solution to the "tampon tax" — though there is no specific tax on…

If you live in a battleground state, odds are you've seen an anti-Trump ad railing on Trump's David Duke stumble on CNN's State of the Union.

Hillary Clinton abandoned her traveling press pool earlier this morning at a 9/11 memorial event in New York after feeling "overheated." She was taken to her daughter Chelsea's New York apartment to recover.

In 2014, retired Army general Jack Keane joined Conversations with Bill Kristol to discuss his career, the war on terrorism, and 9/11.

Two recent Quinnipiac University polls have some good news for Senate Republicans.

The politics of funding a divided federal government has always pitted administrations against Congress, but according to House speaker Paul Ryan, the Obama administration is taking it to new levels.

The invitation promised Omarosa, the much loved/hated star of "The Apprentice."

The Foundation for Constitutional Government has released a new episode of Conversations with Bill Kristol.

Strange things are afoot at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency housed within the Department of the Interior tasked with managing the nation's vast swaths of publicly held land.

A former CIA operative and obscure Capitol Hill staffer by the name of Evan McMullin has begun a longshot conservative bid against Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein.

On Face the Nation Sunday morning on CBS, longtime Trump adviser and Alabama senator Jeff Sessions discussed the most current iteration of the Trump immigration platform with host John Dickerson.

In a press release, Los Angeles mayor and Hillary Clinton supporter Eric Garcetti announced a partnership with the American Institute of Graphic Arts and other non-profits to "launch [a] targeted 'get out the vote' initiative featuring Edward James Olmos."

The case of a clash between Uber, the city of Seattle, and labor unions has put a new spin on an old saying: If you can't beat 'em, make them join you.

Tuesday night on CNN's Erin Burnett Out Front, editor William Kristol discussed the news that Donald Trump refuses to pivot towards a traditional presidential campaign.

On CNN's Erin Burnett Out Front, editor William Kristol discussed Hillary Clinton's email scandal and how it has hurt her campaign.

Donald Trump used to love the polls, until the polls weren't useful anymore. Now he's is taking matters into his own hands by conducting a poll of his own. Trump's campaign emailed his supporters earlier Monday, saying that he is now facing two opponents: Hillary Clinton and the media.

Trump campaign manager Paul Manfort begged credulity earlier Sunday, when he told CNN's Jake Tapper that he was unaware of an offensive statement made by Carl Paladino, the real estate developer and failed politician who serves as co-chair of Trump's New York campaign. (Paladino lost the New York…

Former Ohio Governor and Senate hopeful Ted Strickland apologized earlier Wednesday after making a joke about the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia.

Fifty former national security officials who "served in senior national security and/or foreign policy positions in Republican Administrations, from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush" have vowed never to vote for Donald Trump.

In the latest episode of Conversations With Bill Kristol, former senator and energy secretary Spencer Abraham and WEEKLY STANDARD staff writer Jay Cost join Bill Kristol to discuss Clinton vs. Trump, whether Trump can win, and what comes next after 2016.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger has long been skeptical of Donald Trump, but said that he "wanted to get" to a place where he could feel comfortable endorsing the GOP nominee.

Netflix's new series Stranger Things has taken the binge-addicted world by storm, and for good reason: it's fantastic.

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Donald Trump announced he was delaying an expected Friday announcement of his vice presidential pick that was slated to take place in New York. Trump made the announcement on Twitter:

Like many in the world of politics, I like to collect political bric a brac. Official Trump gear, like the hats, are commonplace these days, so you have to go to the entrepreneurs of America to get the really good stuff.

A new report posted today by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), led by chair Rob Portman (R-OH) confirms that the U.S. State Department funded an Israeli political organization that later ran a campaign dedicated to ousting Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Florida congresswoman Corrine Brown and her chief of staff were recently indicted for fraud. Prosecutors allege Brown and chief of staff Ronnie Simmons used a charity as a personal slush fund to pay for things like the "use of luxury boxes for an NFL game and a Beyoncé concert."

In what is apparently a first, the Dallas police department used a bomb-toting kamikaze drone robot to kill Micah Xavier Johnson, the suspect in the killing of five police officers working parade detail during a Black Lives Matter protest.

Former presidential hopeful and Ohio governor John Kasich has joined other Republican leaders in encouraging delegates to consider their conscience before voting to formally give Donald Trump the GOP nomination.

After announcing that he wouldn't recommend charging Hillary Clinton with regard to her privately-run email server that improperly stored and disseminated classified information, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan released the following statement:

The end of any administration usually leads to contentious fights in Congress over spending priorities, and 2016 is no different. When it comes to preparing for the potential effects of the Zika virus, Democrats in Congress and the President have stymied efforts to protect a favored constituency.

In a clip posted earlier today by member of European Parliament and leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage, the architecht of Brexit had his day in the sun before his fellow MEPs.

In a set back for the pro-life movement, the Supreme Court released a 5-3 ruling Monday that safety regulations passed into law by the state of Texas represented "a substantial obstacle to women seeking abortions, and constitutes an 'undue burden' on their constitutional right to do so."

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, executive editor Fred Barnes argues that unless Donald Trump's 2016 course is corrected, the election this fall might very well be a repeat of Barry Goldwater in 1964.

Two new polls released Sunday morning show Hillary Clinton leading over Donald Trump.

Now that Marco Rubio is vying to keep his Senate seat, he has one serious challenger in the primary: Carlos Beruff.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced his plans for resignation after consultation with the Queen.

In the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting last week, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are reviving an old protest tactic popular among Occupy Wall Street and college activists: the sit-in.

This wasn't supposed to happen.

The Foundation for Constitutional Government has released a new episode of Conversations with Bill Kristol, and the returning guest is former world chess champion and human rights activist Garry Kasparov.

The boss joined George Stephanopoulos and guests on ABC's This Week to discuss Trump vs. Hillary in the general election and the shootings in Orlando.

The boss joined Andrea Mitchell earlier on MSNBC to discuss the Trump candidacy and the recent controversy over Donald Trump's statements on Judge Curiel, and whether GOP leaders will abandon Trump for a conservative nominee.

TWS has a special affinity for the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels, as the son of one staff member flew with the team a decade ago and the friend of another is flying with it now. Yesterday, the Angels lost USMC Captain Jeff Kuss in an accident in Smyrna, Tennessee.

Before the United States Air Force Academy's class of 2016 Thursday, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James gave an odd commencement address. Instead of dispensing advice or wisdom, James's speech was a fawning tribute to President Obama and his administration.

In a little-watched case in the Midwest, the Obama administration's Medicare regulators were dealt an embarrassing blow this week by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

This year's annual National Memorial Day Concert on the National Mall featured a stirring tribute to veterans of the Vietnam War. The concert, which aired Sunday evening on PBS, included a surprising addition: Hans Zimmer's "Honor" from the HBO miniseries The Pacific.

This year's annual National Memorial Day Concert on the National Mall featured a stirring tribute to veterans of the Vietnam War. The concert, which aired Sunday evening on PBS, included a surprising addition: Hans Zimmer's "Honor" from the HBO miniseries The Pacific.

Journalists and legal scholars have been debating merits of so-called "litigation finance" over the revelation that libertarian billionaire and philanthropist Peter Thiel helped finance an invasion of privacy lawsuit Terry Gene Bollea (Hulk Hogan) filed against the embattled digital publisher…

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Harvey Mansfield's book Manliness, the Hoover Institution is hosting a symposium to discuss the book next week in Washington.

In a little museum at my father's law firm's home office in Cleveland, there is a collection of knickknacks and mementos of the firm's history. Whenever I visit, I have to drop by to marvel at a baseball hat that I assume nobody has ever worn, out of fear of perpetuating the curse that's led to…

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Fred Barnes says Donald Trump needs to bring conservatives, especially Paul Ryan, into his camp:

BuzzFeed is calling the involvement of Paul Manafort in the Trump campaign, “An intelligence classification vetting nightmare scenario." This, because Trump is set to start getting classified intelligence briefings as the presumptive Republican nominee.

Over on his personal site, frequent contributor Quin Hillyer writes on the need for a third-party candidate:

Donald Trump, who has never ever gone personally bankrupt, has a plan to attack our mounting national debt: stiff creditors.

Following the results of Tuesday's Indiana primary, THE WEEKLY STANDARD received a letter from two readers, addressed to the Republican National Committee. With the writers' permission, that letter is reproduced below:

As the New York Times has reported, General Jim Mattis has ruled out a potential independent bid for the Presidency.

Bill Kristol joined Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC today to discuss the efforts to stop Donald Trump's bid to become the Republican nominee, whether Ted Cruz might announce Carly Fiorina as his VP pick, and the likelihood of a third-party alternative to Trump-Clinton.

In last week's Kristol Clear newsletter (sign up here for free!), the boss held a competition to honor the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.

The boss joined George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week to discuss the state of the GOP nomination race, along with Jon Karl, Jennifer Granholm, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, and Ana Navarro.

While Indiana is a crucial state for presidential candidates Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and Donald Trump, election day in the Hoosier state brings another crucial choice: Who should replace retiring senator Dan Coats?

After a big win in his home state of New York, three of Donald Trump's children joined Fox News's Sean Hannity for an interview. Donald Trump Junior went on a rant after being asked a question by Hannity on Team Trump's inability to secure delegates.

Chess master and Russian immigrant to the United States Garry Kasparov has some strong words for Donald Trump in today's New York Daily News:

The Marine's Hymn might need some amending. No longer is the venerable military force ready to "fight our country's battles ... In the air, on land, and sea."

Following the lead of populist insurgent Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton emerged from her Secret Service Mystery Machine to join the picket line of telecom giant Verizon.

The Boston Globe is reporting that U.S.-based shoe manufacturer New Balance has come out hard against the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. The odd thing, though, is that "the Boston company had gone quiet [on TPP] last year."

Donald Trump has shown a mastery of bravado, spin, and radical changes of direction thus far in the 2016 bid for the GOP nomination. Along the way, he's managed to build up a loyal base of supporters.

With the growing likelihood of a brokered convention, lots of ink and pixels has been spilled on what might happen if there isn't a first ballot winner in Cleveland.

It has been reported that Eric and Ivanka Trump failed to register in New York state as Republicans, and thus can't vote for their father in the upcoming New York primary.

On CNN's Out Front with Erin Burnett last night, the boss challenged Donald Trump's senior aide Ed Brookover on charges the Trump campaign made in the wake of its humiliating loss to Ted Cruz in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Joining them was Kellyanne Conway, who heads Ted Cruz's super PAC.

The boss joined former Vermont governor Howard Dean this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe to discuss Ted Cruz's win last night in Wisconsin. What impressed him was Wisconsin coalescing behind Cruz, despite the evidence suggesting he wasn't necessarily Wisconsin's first choice.

After a thumping in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton is embracing a new tactic to undermine the rise of Bernie Sanders: suggesting he is not a Democrat.

On Greta last night, RNC chairman Reince Priebus suggested to Fox News viewers that even the vice presidential nomination could be contested at the GOP convention in Cleveland later this year.

On Thursday morning, CNN's Anderson Cooper and his mother Gloria Vanderbilt were on the Diane Rehm Show to discuss their new book The Rainbow Comes and Goes.

Donald Trump has undeniably brought the issue of trade with China to the national stage. With Trump's good odds at becoming the GOP nominee, down-ballot candidates in the House and the Senate are indeed having to grapple with a changed landscape.

The boss joined guest host Jon Karl on ABC's This Week to discuss the 2016 election. The Powerhouse Roundtable discussed both frontrunner Donald Trump and insurgent underdog Bernie Sanders after each spoke on the program.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Brookings scholar William Galston observes that there is still a path for a third-party conservative challenger to Donald Trump, should he win the GOP nomination. Getting on most state ballots, writes Galston, is not the hardest part:

On NBC's Today Show, Hillary Clinton phoned in to chat with Savannah Guthrie as cries of the wounded and dying in Brussels set the scene in the background.

This morning on CBS This Morning, Hillary Clinton phoned in to discuss the terror attacks in Brussels and was cut off mid-thought.

Two terrorist attacks in Brussels this morning have left at least 27 dead, the Wall Street Journal reports.

TWS senior writer Mark Hemingway recently delivered a lecture entitled "Silence Is Death: The Demise of Free Speech" at Hillsdale College.

Today at the joint press conference between President Barack Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro, the pair took questions from the press.

RNC chairman Reince Priebus joined George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week to discuss violence at Donald Trump's rallies and this summer's Republican National Convention.

Dr. Sam Clovis, a failed politician turned "top aide" to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, threatened today on CNN to leave the Republican party should Donald Trump lose a contested convention.

On Capitol Hill, it's appropriations season, and members are sending "Dear Colleague" letters left and right, seeking their colleagues' support for programmatic funding requests.

Donald Trump hires the best people. The greatest. It's a promise he's made voters in 29 states, most of which have voted for him.

On Tuesday, the City of Los Angeles announced the formation of a "Transgender Advisory Council," a board selected to "advise City leaders on issues facing the trans community."

Writing over at the Free Beacon, Matthew Continetti examines the claim that, come November, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump would be "the same."

Last July, Ted Cruz told Sean Hannity of Fox News that Donald Trump was "bold and brash, and he's willing to speak the truth. And he's taking on the Washington cartel."

This morning, as the White House welcomed Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, the White House passed out American and Canadian flags to guests on the South Lawn.

During last year's budget deal (The Bipartisan Budget Act or BBA), Republicans secured more defense spending in a compromise measure for a trade of more general spending and a suspension of the debt limit. But things have grown more complicated, as the Foreign Policy Initiative's David Adesnik…

Each Monday, the boss sends out his weekly newsletter to tens of thousands of readers across the country with insights, great stories, and links. It's free to sign up for, and you can do so here.

Romanian hacker Marcel Lazăr Lehel -- better known as Guccifer -- is being extradited to the United States, say news reports.

The boss was on MSNBC's Morning Joe to discuss his strategy for stopping Donald Trump.

As voters are exposed to more about presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump's record as a businessman, the list of failed ventures comes to mind: Steaks sold at the Sharper Image, an airline, vodka, magazines, mortgages, and a travel agency.

Jeffrey H. Anderson writes the Wall Street Journal about his new tax plan -- the Main Street Tax Plan -- and how it compares to that of the remaining candidates:

"Congratulations" the Wall Street Journal wrote in late 2009. "You're about to own $100 billion a year in student loans." They weren't kidding.

At a rally in Fort Worth, Texas today, Donald Trump unloaded on Amazon.com founder and owner of the Washington Post Jeff Bezos.

Last night at Ted Cruz's election night party in Nevada, following the news that he placed third there, his well known surrogate Glenn Beck assured supporters that Cruz is "not a liar."

A local affiliate of CBS in New York is reporting that Charles Rangel, the embattled former chair of the House Ways & Means Committee, is retiring after 23 terms in the House of Representatives.

Testifying this morning before a House Appropriations subcommittee, Attorney General Loretta Lynch was asked by Rep. John Carter (R-TX) about the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server and its role in handling classified and secret information.

For a special state of the race edition of Conversations with Bill Kristol, former senator and energy secretary Spencer Abraham and TWS staff writer Jay Cost join Bill Kristol to discuss the Trump phenomenon -- as well as upcoming primaries.

At tonight's CNN townhall in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton said she'd release the transcripts to her Wall Street speeches when "everybody does it."

Thursday night at the Democratic debate in Milwaukee, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both had their best debate performance yet. Unfortunately, this doesn't give viewers an idea of a clear winner -- but what the heck, a resounding Democratic primary win doesn't even count as a win these days.

It was only a matter of time before Hollywood went after Donald Trump, and just in time for his yuuge win in New Hampshire, Funny or Die brings us Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie.

Oregon's bike-obsessed congressman is at it again. Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat, is petitioning his colleagues to ask the Obama administration to handicap state and local transportation planning decisions to encourage... you guessed it, bicycle use.

After a poor showing in New Hampshire, New Jersey governor Chris Christie and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina are suspending their campaigns. Fiorina announced the move today on Twitter.

In a new series for Hulu, Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog is back. The lovable, funny puppy puppet voiced by Robert Smigel, is on the campaign trail in New Hampshire.

The Daily Beast is reporting that a small New Hampshire-based veterans charity has refused to appear at a Trump for President rally to accept a $100,000 check from the Donald J. Trump Foundation. Liberty House objected to it being given to them in a public setting: a campaign rally for Trump…

Carly Fiorina's super PAC is out with a new web ad today mocking ABC for excluding her from tonight's GOP debate in New Hampshire.

Friday night at a New Hampshire Democratic fundraiser, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders went onstage to make their respective cases to Granite State Democratic influencers.

A growing number of major insurers are pushing their customers not to visit the doctor in person, but via phone. United Healthcare was among the first major insurers to make the switch, and most readers will remember their humorous ad announcing the new coverage, but others are joining.

With the Senate dedicating a fair amount of floor time to the Energy Policy Modernization Act, Republican senators are taking the opportunity to shine a light on bad practices in the energy economy through the amendment process.

Silver Airways, a Florida-based airline, is mocking Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio for their "honorable mentions" in Iowa.

This morning, in the boss's weekly newsletter (sign up here for free!) Bill previewed his latest conversation with political scientist Harvey Mansfield:

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is once again dipping her toe into the political waters, announcing a bid for Wyoming's sole seat in the House of Representatives.

Leading in to the Iowa caucuses, opponents of Donald Trump began to hit him for his support of eminent domain. Not just any kind of eminent domain (road, bridge, etc.) but for trying to take an old woman's house for a parking lot for his (now failed) casino.

Writing at the Washington Free Beacon, contributing editor Matthew Continetti squares recent columns by Charles Krauthammer and David Brooks.

If Hillary loses the nomination to Bernie Sanders, longtime Clinton aide Doug Band has pledged to vote for Michael Bloomberg, should he run.

This morning on CNN, Alisyn Camerota said that journalists are scared to criticize Donald Trump.

Vincent "Buddy" Cianci, the scandal-plagued long time mayor of Providence, Rhode Island has died. He was 74. A Republican-turned-Independent, Cianci had recently proposed to his girlfriend.

It's been news in recent days at left-leaning organs like The Nation that in the waning days of the Obama administration, there are still dark, cobwebbed sections of public law that need to be cleansed of their misogyny.

Retired Navy Admiral and Senate hopeful Joe Sestak was asked recently at the Pennsylvania Press Club Luncheon about the recent catpure of 10 U.S. Navy sailors by the government of Iran.

Yesterday, in the boss's newsletter Kristol Clear (sign up here for free!) we sent out a new twist on our traditional newsletter straw poll: A prediction market game.

In the days leading up to the Iowa Caucus, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has taken his message to the Internet for a last-minute blitz with a series of web videos. (Including even a how-to for first time caucus goers.)

One of Secretary Clinton's last questions at tonight's CNN townhall debate came from a young Iowan by the name of Brett Rosenberg.

The boss joins National Review's Jay Nordlinger on his Ricochet podcast to discuss the "Neither Trump Nor Hillary" movement.

The Bush campaign is out with a new ad attacking senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz for their records on ISIS and Syria.

Amid the closure of 150 or so Walmarts across the country, the booming Washington, D.C., region did not escape without casualties. Two planned stores in poorer parts of town, east of the Anacostia river, will not be built.

Earlier this morning, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates went on MSNBC's Morning Joe to promote his new book on leadership.

At last night's GOP debate in South Carolina, Texas senator Ted Cruz painted himself into a corner.

I'm not a Rams fan. This is because I do not respect football teams that play indoors, a practice (rightly) mocked by my people: Cleveland Browns fans. Not that we have much to brag about other than our terrible weather.

David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Obama, criticized Hillary Clinton's campaign for using Chelsea Clinton to attack her Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders, on healthcare.

Here's the full text of South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's Republican Response to President Obama's final State of the Union Address:

CNN's Dana Bash asked Marco Rubio whether Ted Cruz is eligible to be president of the United States. Cruz, of course, was born in Canada to an American mother.

Earlier today in Saraosta, Florida, Marco Rubio gave a speech to supporters outlining his views on economic policy, and contrasting himself with Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

It should come as no surprise to even irregular readers of the New York Times that the paper's editorial view on guns is decidedly hostile.

Hillary Clinton accused Republican candidates of hiring actors to appear at campaign rallies on Iowa. Clinton was quoted as making the conspiratorial claim in a recent CNN article:

The boss joined CNN's Jake Tapper on The Lead and democratic strategist and former Clinton aide Donna Brazile to discuss Donald Trump's attacks on Hillary Clinton, her defense of Bill's lies about his extramarital activities, and how that squares with her recent statements about believing the…

In this week's edition of the boss's email newsletter -- Kristol Clear (sign up for free!) - Bill Kristol looks back on the sad fate of his New York Jets:

In this week's edition of the boss's email newsletter (sign up free here!), Bill Kristol conducts the eighth "straw poll" but this time with a twist: fewer candidates and some face-to-face matchups.

When asked by Steve Doocy on Fox and Friends on Tuesday morning about how he'd do in New Hampshire, Jeb Bush repeatedly and awkwardly answered that he'd do "better than expected."

The boss shares some advice for 2016 pessimists in this week's Kristol Clear newsletter. (Don't get it? Sign up for free today!)

The Donald Trump and John Kasich campaigns are out with their debut television ads. Ted Cruz's affiliated Super PACs, meanwhile, are out with some big ad buys themselves, which attack Marco Rubio.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Florida Senator Marco Rubio are focusing their efforts on New Hampshire this week in the shadow of the Iowa caucuses.

POLITICO is reporting that Ohio governor and presidential candidate John Kasich has snagged a Democrat mega-donor: Ron Burkle.

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, running for President as a Democrat, released a few new web ads this afternoon.

Move over, Mystery Machine, Clintonworld has a new vehicle for the Secret Service to protect: Chelsea Clinton's $1,000 Bugaboo stroller (an import!)

A new group called the Energy Equality Coalition launched on Thursday. The group's goal is to "end taxpayer subsidies and ensure a level playing field for middle-class American energy consumers."

After retaking the House of Representatives, Congressional GOP leaders beat a consistent drum for fundamentally reforming our tax system, an elusive goal since the historic 1986 tax reforms.

Brands these days want to do all they can to connect with rich, tech savvy Millennials. They key to this newer, hipper generation is "engagement" with brands on the Internet and on social media.

In the fight over which policy riders get into the year-end CR/Omnibus, the Democrats are bluffing left and right..

In the wake of the San Bernardino shooting by a radicalized Muslim couple, House and Senate Democrats have spent the week pushing a dead-on-arrival measure to restrict gun purchases by those on the FBI's no-fly list.

In the near future, 18-year-olds in Cleveland, Ohio, will be able to vote and enlist in the military. But they won't be old enough to buy a pack of smokes.

In this week's edition of the boss's Kristol Clear e-newsletter (sign up here!)-- readers are asked to rank their top three picks for the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee. The boss's impressions of Iowans seem to be borne out by the new Monmouth poll.

In the Obama era, incremental conservative progress that gets signed into law is a rare thing.

Manassas, Virginia

In this week's edition of the boss's email newsletter -- Kristol Clear -- readers are asked to rank their top three picks for the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee. And this time he's added a special (optional) college football playoff game.

In this week's edition of the Kristol Clear-- which you can sign up for here-- the boss has some reading and gift suggestions for our devoted readers.

Donald Trump has joined forces with Hillary Clinton and other presidential candidates to condemn the recent announcement that Pfizer, known for its erectile dysfunction drugs, is inverting in a merger with Allergan PLC to become an Irish company.

The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates has won the National Book Award for Between the World and Me.

Former White House special counsel to President Clinton and Hillary Clinton booster Lanny Davis wants to help you become more worldly by exploring the prospect of dual citizenship in a Carrbean country!

The Washington Post has declared in a headline: "McAuliffe announces milestone in ending veteran homelessness."

Waking up this morning, I noticed a friend sharing a story from a news blog called "The Daily Patriot." It claimed that a security guard, a Muslim man by the name of Zouheir, was the one who stopped a suicide bomber outside of the Stade de France on Friday. Here's the lede:

At tonight's CBS debate, the topic of Hillary Clinton's campaign donations from Wall Street came up as a question as to whether she was "beholden" to them as a result.

Morton Kondracke fired off a letter to Powerline Blog, criticizing a New York Times review of the book he recently co-authored with TWS executive editor Fred Barnes: Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America.

A chorus of Democrats and activists are raising hackles about the potential of Republican policy riders being added to a year-end omnibus spending bill. Policy riders (or “limitation riders”) are the opposite of earmarks. Where the now-extinct earmark required money to be used on a certain project,…

Senator Ted Cruz seized an opportunity to get a massive applause line at tonight's CNBC debate by attacking the moderators for their line of questioning:

In this week's edition of the boss's email newsletter -- Kristol Clear (sign up here!) -- he writes about the conundrum of being a Mets fan conflicting with the next GOP debate.

Matt Lewis has a great new piece at the Daily Beast, "How Paul Ryan Went From Wingnut to RINO."

Alexandria, Va.

Vice President Joe Biden announced today, standing alongside his wife Jill and President Obama, that he will not be seeking the presidency in 2016. 

Facing a leftward battle in the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton's camp has sent out signals that they're happy about Monday's win by Canada's Liberal Party, and their likely new prime minister Justin Trudeau.

On CNN's Reliable Sources, former Washington Post journalist (and Clinton biographer) Carl Bernstein weighed in on the Hillary Clinton email scandal:

In last week's CNN debate, Hillary Clinton (and the other candidates) were asked:

According to records reviewed by THE WEEKLY STANDARD, former New York Senator Hillary Clinton wins the coveted "which person running for president from New York has voted in the most elections since 2002" contest.

Rather than continue to battle with the relatively new House "Freedom Caucus," John Boehner decided to announce the end of his tenure as Speaker, leaving the door open for somebody else to take the reins. Kevin McCarthy, thought by many to be a certain successor, dropped out, citing an inability to…

In tonight's CNN debate, Hillary Clinton described her Wall Street reform proposals as "tougher" than her opponents.

CNN's Anderson Cooper chose Hillary Clinton as the first target of tonight's first Democratic debate.

Writing in the Washingtonian, Benjamin Freed sounds the alarm: Metro's Ridership Is Still Falling, and Fare Hikes Might Be the Only Way to Keep Its Revenue Up.

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is at it again. In one of their man on the street videos, a staple of the show, a staffer asked random self-identified Clinton supporters about Trump's tax plans.

About fifty protestors joined together outside of the Democratic National Committee on South Capitol Street this afternoon to protest the party's debate rules.

For anyone who has followed Donald Trump on the stump, undoubtedly they've heard The Donald spin a tale of what he would do as president if, say, Ford plans to build a new plant outside of the United States.

On Wednesday of this week, the Missouri legislature is meeting for an override session. Unique to state legislatures, this is when the legislature has a chance to override any veteos issued by the governor.

After the United States shut down its airspace after the September 11th attack, a unique problem emerged: international flights. 

As Americans stop to remember the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania that took place 14 years ago, the WEEKLY STANDARD shares some remembrances and stories from our writers:

Much to the dismay of my wife, I bought an authentic red "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" hat from Donald Trump's webpage, and insisted on wearing it every day for a week to see what would happen. The hat cost $25, plus shipping.

As the 90 degree sun beat down on a thousand or two activists on the west front of the Capitol Wednesday, a carnival of varied speakers lined up to cheer up the faithful. Initially, there were supposed to be about 25 speakers. The real total was much closer to 50.

With the summer of Trump coming to a close, the fall might belong to Dr. Ben Carson. Earlier this year, we labeled Carson "the 2016 campaign’s most interesting long shot" -- but that long-shot is seeing a rise in the polls in Iowa, and nationally.

In the boss's weekly newsletter (sign up here!), released this morning, he revealed the results of the sixth non-scientific straw poll of TWS readers.

Writing in his weekly newsletter, the boss plugged the latest episode of Conversations with Bill Kristol. 

On C-Span's Washington Journal this morning, former Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone plugged the boss's recent editorial on Donald Trump, 'Up from Trumpism' and that the editorial was "#yuge"

In this week's edition of the boss's email newsletter -- Kristol Clear -- readers are asked to rank their top three picks for the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee. And, there's also special new Democratic field betting game, since Joe Biden is flirting with running.

New Jersey's kids, like all kids, are our future. And in many places, it takes a village to raise those children, complete with teachers' unions.

"One American citizen will effectively choose the next President of the United States" Chris Matthews opines for viewers in the movie Swing Vote. The little-seen movie, which comes with the tagline, "A nobody becomes the voice of everybody," is a story about Kevin Costner being able to decide the…

The 1998 best selling book, The 48 Laws of Power, is a Machiavellian Bible of sorts. Donald Trump, author of his own many books telling people how he thinks they can get ahead, is also a student of Machiavelli. 

Chuck Grassley, the dean of the Iowa congressional delegation, recently sent out a fundraising letter/poll to Iowa voters. (He's running for his seventh six-year term in the Senate in 2016.)

Hillary Clinton, who is routinely criticized for her lack of public availability, granted a private meeting on August 11 to activists from the group #BlackLivesMatter -- a movement across the country well-known for its controversial methods of generating publicity.

Former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels was on Conversations With Bill Kristol recently, and the clips aired this weekend.

Roll Call's Simone Pathé reported on Thursday that, "[a] new campaign finance reform political action committee expects to be among the top five outside groups to assist campaigns this cycle."

On MSNBC's Morning Joe program this morning, Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley told Mika Brzezinski he'd like to see the number of Democratic debates tripled before votes are cast in the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

Los Angeles County, like nearly all of California, is suffering from a drought. California is also a state known for its edgy environmental regulations, as it bans the commercial use of California-made WD-40, for instance. Los Angeles County follows in this tradition, in that it adopted an…

The Detroit Free Press is reporting:

These days, it's hard to feel sorry for the EPA, but a public hearing that aired on CSPAN Tuesday morning may spur some sympathy.

Cleveland

Over the past few months, the boss has conducted an unscientific straw poll to ask newsletter subscribers (subscribe for free!) and TWS blog readers their top three choices for the 2016 GOP nominee.

On Fox & Friends this morning, Donald Trump asked viewers not to forget that:

A September 1989, feature in New York magazine by Edwin Diamond, titled “Trump vs. Stern: The Unmaking of a Documentary” closed with this line:

Over the decades, Donald Trump has been involved in a handful of businesses ventures -- some lucrative (game shows). Others, like steak sold at the Sharper Image, have been more of a flop.

Secure America Now, a group opposed to President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, released a new poll this morning.

Global Zero, a group dedicated to the total eliminiation of nuclear weapons worldwide, has a new video out in support of President Obama's Iran nuclear deal.

Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi was widely derided for saying Congress had to pass Obamacare "so that you can find out what is in it."

In this week's edition of the boss's email newsletter -- Kristol Clear -- readers are asked to rank their top three picks for the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee. The boss writes:

Asked directly by CNN's Wolf Blitzer whether she would vote to support President Obama's Iran deal, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz demurred, saying:

At a campaign event in Des Moines, Hillary dropped an awkward line -- similar to Mitt Romney's remark about the height of trees in Michigan -- to show how well she associates with voters. 

This morning on America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer on FOX News Channel, California Republican congressman Darrell Issa alleged that the IRS hasn't changed its procedures and is still targeting conservative groups.

The eyes of the nation tuned in to cable news this morning as South Carolina removed the Confederate Battle Flag from its Capitol grounds after 54 years. 

David Keyes, executive director of a group called "Advancing Human Rights" is at it again. This time in Vienna.

Earlier today, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing to consider whether President Obama's pick to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., should be advanced to the Senate for a confirmation vote.

After days of bad -- albeit free -- press over her campaign's controversial roping of journalists at a parade in New Hampshire, footage has been unearthed of the Bill Clinton campaign doing precisely the same thing to the press in 1992.

In a newly released email exchange between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, Hillary emails Podesta asking, "When can we talk?"

Hillary Clinton does not know how to operate a fax machine. That's one of the disclosures from the last email document dump from the State Department.

To critics of the Obama administration's aggressive use of regulatory power, today's 5-4 high court ruling against the EPA in Michigan v. EPA might sound like a good thing. But the administrator of the EPA is sure she has the last laugh.

Before the advent of today’s advanced electronic gaming systems and cell phones with their apps, there were handheld games powered by AA or AAA batteries. 

Over the past few months, the boss has conducted an unscientific straw poll to ask newsletter subscribers (subscribe for free!) and TWS blog readers their top three choices for the 2016 GOP nominee. This morning, he sent out the results, and Scott Walker has maintained his lead.

The U.S. Forest Service has posted a request for public comment in the federal register on a proposed new regulation that would create a “National Saw Program.”

People not from Cleveland often ask us natives during the rare instances when one of our sports teams is in a championship, “are you nervous?”

In this week's edition of the boss's email newsletter -- Kristol Clear -- readers are asked to rank their top three picks for the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee. The boss writes:

Late last week, hundreds of dedicated WEEKLY STANDARD readers flocked to Colorado Springs to attend the magazine's yearly summit at the Broadmoor resort.

After last night's fatal crash of an Amtrak Northeast Regional Train, the publicly supported company's market research and analysis division emailed customers it had invited to take a survey to inform them the survey had been closed.

As part of the observance of the 70th anniversary of VE Day, the National Mall played host to a WWII sky parade.

Earlier today on CBS This Morning, Baltimore mother Toya Graham told her story about the now-viral scene from Monday where she pulled her son Michael off of the streets of rioting Baltimore.

Senior Editor Andrew Ferguson joined C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb for their Q&A series to discuss his career in journalism, the founding of the Weekly Standard, his writing process, and stories from his time on the 2016 campaign trail.

Today, writing in his weekly "Kristol Clear" newsletter, the boss sent around an updated straw poll to gauge who readers think, at this point, should be the 2016 GOP nominee.

Last night, Saturday Night Live took advantage of Hillary Clinton's expected Sunday campaign announcement to skewer the former secretary of state in the Cold Open segment of the show.

Addressing the Cleveland City Club on Wednesday, President Obama put up a trial balloon for a controversial concept: mandatory voting. According to Fox News, Obama said, “If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country,” and called the idea ‘potentially…

In an interview with The Hill's Molly Hooper, the boss discussed the 2016 election and the impact foreign policy will have on the Republican field.

Yesterday, writing in his weekly "Kristol Clear" newsletter, the boss sent around an updated straw poll to gauge who readers think, at this point, should be the 2016 GOP nominee.

The taxman has stepped in at the eleventh hour to modify a little-known tax law change that is (still) set to impact most businesses across the country.

Prompted by the death of two children in recent years, Senate Democrats are taking a stand on the issue of the appearance of laundry and dishwasher detergent pods.

In the month of February, Americans reflect on the contributions that African Americans have made over the course of our history. Of course, February is also host to President's day -- a joint celebration of the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

At a hearing this morning conducted by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Tom Cotton, a war veteran, chided the Obama administration's justification to close the detention facility that has housed terrorism suspects since 2002. The administration's witness was Principal Deputy…

A new report, Understanding the Federal Government’s ‘IT Insecurity’ Crisis, released today by the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers (IAITAM), has the group claiming that "half or more of the $70-$80 billion the U.S. government spends each year on Information…

The deadline to get taxpayer subsidized healthcare is coming up quickly. In an apparent effort to increase enrollment in Obamacare, Facebook ads are running trying to get users to checkout the website.

In this week's edition of the boss's email newsletter -- Kristol Clear -- readers are asked to rank their top three picks for the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee. The boss writes:

On a frigid, windy night in Washington, a couple hundred people trekked to the Newseum for a vigil for the murdered French journalists from the Parisian weekly Charlie Hebdo, the police that died trying to protect them, and those that were wounded.

Two years after it was supposed to help revitalize Atlantic City, the $2.4 billion Revel casino—all 57 stories of it—is closed. It’s an expensive eyesore that sums up Atlantic City’s decline.

When President Obama finally offers his executive action on illegal immigration, the Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is going to get a bit busier.

Today, in an article for Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Apple CEO Tim Cook makes an announcement: "I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me."

Washingtonians and visitors seeking to attend Veterans Day ceremonies or to pay their respects to the fallen at Arlington National Cemetery this year will need to allocate extra time in getting there. 

Years after the National Mall was torn up and blocked off to re-grow grass as part of the stimulus package, the bulldozers are back to clear a ten by six acre parcel, located adjacent to the reflection pool, between the Lincoln Memorial and the World War Two Memorial. The parcel of land will be…

“There is little debate that all patrol officers should be issued BWCs,” wrote attorney Eugene Ramirez in a white paper his law firm issued on so-called body worn cameras (BWCs). Ramirez is correct that there is little debate. In the wake of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the…

White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz told reporters Wednesday that the White House is studying ways to go after U.S. corporations that elect to undergo a process known as “inversion” and become a foreign-based corporation.

Yesterday, the National Gallery of Art put out a solicitation for nuclear ordnance, giving interested parties until the end of October to respond to the solicitation notice.

An Ohio-based trade association, the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers (IAITAM), wants to know why the IRS’s IT Asset Managers have apparently “disappeared at a key juncture.”

The RNC’s Site Selection Committee has recommended Cleveland, Ohio, as the host city of the 2016 Republican National Convention. Cleveland last held a national political convention in 1936, when Kansas governor Alfred Landon defeated Senator William Borah of Idaho for the Republican presidential…

Were Lois Lerner’s allegedly lost emails actually destroyed? An Ohio-based trade association, the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers (IAITAM), isn’t so sure, and they don’t find IRS commissioner Koskinen’s explanation of their loss very plausible. 

In January during his State of the Union Address, President Obama unveiled his new myRA program. “Let’s do more to help Americans save for retirement. Today, most workers don’t have a pension. A Social Security check often isn’t enough on its own. And while the stock market has doubled over the…

Sold anything on Craigslist lately? An old TV, a crib, chair, or lamp? If so, you may have broken federal law.

Oxon Hill, Md.

The Food and Drug Administration is soliciting information and comment on brochure technology it's exploring as part of its mandate to implement the Tobacco Control Act, a law signed by President Obama during his first year in office.

Congressman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) announced in a press release that he has been ranked the "most productive member of Congress" over the past ten years, noting that 31 of his 290 bills have been signed into law by either President Bush or President Obama.

Buying local has, in recent years, become somewhat of a fad movement among trade unionists, greens, foodies, and anti-free traders. Believers in the movement -- usually the foodies -- often refer to themselves as “locavores.”

The government shutdown may have ended last October, but the Treasury Department's voicemail is telling callers a different story. 

Nineteen Democratic senators filed a brief this week with the Supreme Court in support of requiring business owners to pay for contraceptives and abortifacients for their employees over their religious objections.

A 2008 documentary reveals that Terry McAuliffe, who is being sworn in today as governor of Virginia, thinks that members of the Bush family “should all have been put away in jail.”

An image of a state-run veterans’ cemetery posted to the aggregation website Reddit this week is causing a controversy. The image, originally posted by the page "U.S Army W.T.F! moments" on Facebook, captures a scene from Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery, run by the Maryland department of veterans…

According to the University of Maryland student newspaper The Diamondback, the university’s student health insurance plan is considering requiring coverage of sex change operations.

At the corner of First and H Streets in Northwest Washington, the balloons were all set, hanging stories high in the cold morning air. The inflatable Pepsi and Mountain Dew bottles were twisting in the breeze, and a mini-hoop game was set up. There was even a marching band and Chester the Cheetos…

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two challenges to the constitutionality of the HHS mandate that employer-provided health insurance cover certain reproductive services free of charge even over the employer’s religious objections. Of the many who will be closely watching the high court’s…

Earlier today, an unidentified bearded man took it upon himself to bring his lawnmower and a few tools to the Lincoln Memorial to provide free groundskeeping work to the closed federal monument.

Earlier today, an unidentified bearded man took it upon himself to bring his lawnmower and a few tools to the Lincoln Memorial to provide free groundskeeping work to the closed federal monument.

Yesterday, President Obama signed a number of supposedly uncontroversial bills into law.

Reports surfaced earlier this week that the webpage of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) appears to have been purchased and hosted by City of New York.

A restaurant where President Obama took winners of his 2012 campaign’s “Dinner with Barack” contest was forced to close this week because it was cited for failing to comply with Washington, D.C.’s health and sanitation regulations.

As someone new to journalism, I’ve acquired every book imaginable on style, grammar, and writing. On my shelf sit Words into Type, The Associated Press Stylebook, The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage. Even dusty old books I was forced to buy in college—like The Chicago Guide to Writing…

President Obama and Vice President Biden revealed their proposed reforms intended to reduce firearms related violence.