William Mayer is a writer who contributed to The Weekly Standard between 2001 and 2017. His articles for the magazine covered topics including national security policy, elections, and media engagement.
WHAT DOES THE AMERICAN PUBLIC think about campaign finance reform? Actually, it doesn’t think much about it at all. Though it is rarely mentioned in the typical media story on the subject, campaign finance reform is the epitome of a "Beltway issue": one that greatly concerns pundits, reporters,…
IT WASN'T A SPEECH you'd expect to cause an uproar. Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, addressed the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee on January 18. Looking ahead to the midterm elections, Rove suggested that the Republicans had a number of issues that resonated…
"THE ELECTION IS OVER. Let the historical recriminations begin." The U.S. Supreme Court didn't say precisely that when it rendered its decision in Bush v. Gore -- but it might as well have. Within days of Gore's concession, two different teams of media and academic researchers were already poring…