Writing at the Federalist, Susan Kristol reflects on the sacrifices made by the parents of those members of the military deployed into or killed in combat—and suggests Donald Trump should have responded much more empathetically to the appearance of two such parents, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, at the…
The two most powerful Republicans in Congress say the memory of Army captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier who died in Iraq in 2004, should be honored and valued—but both stopped short of criticizing the GOP nominee for president, Donald Trump. Khan's parents spoke out against Trump's…
In this episode of THE WEEKLY STANDARD Confab, Fred Barnes and Vic Matus join host Eric Felten to discuss the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Hillary Clinton had an opportunity Thursday night to make the electoral map a mad scramble. For months, we've heard about Donald Trump's Rust Belt strategy, by which he would parlay a blue-collar coalition into blue-state pickups like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. For three days this week,…
How did it get to this point?
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If Bill Clinton truly did fall asleep during his wife's speech at the Democratic convention on Thursday night, you can hardly blame him. And that's not (only) because of the soporific content of the remarks. Rather, Clinton's speech went late into the night, not wrapping up until around midnight,…
Tim Kaine has moved sharply to the left on the issue of abortion over the last 10 years, but there remains some confusion over where the Democratic vice presidential nominee stands on the issue of federal funding of abortion.
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Is there any politician as ill-suited to a city as Hillary Clinton is to Philadelphia?
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President Obama brazenly overplayed Hillary Clinton's experience in his 2016 DNC speech Wednesday night.
Many sorrowful conservatives observed after President Obama’s speech Wednesday night that Democrats, not Republicans, are the party trumpeting American greatness and optimism this year. To hear some tell it, John Winthrop was in the house. "American exceptionalism and greatness, shining city on…
"Within the context of the times it is clear that 'all men' was a euphemism for 'humanity,' and thus those people, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, who used the Declaration of Independence to demand equality for African Americans and women seized the…
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As Hillary Clinton prepared this week to become the first woman in U.S. history to be nominated for president by a major political party, her campaign reposted a video ad on Twitter originally produced by the Hillary for President campaign late in 2015. The ad, titled "44 boys is too many",…
Finally, something went right for the Democrats in Philadelphia on Wednesday night.
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Former President Bill Clinton spoke Tuesday evening at the Democratic National Committee Convention in Philadelphia, the same night his wife Hillary received the Democratic nomination for president. Around that time or shortly thereafter, the Donald Trump campaign website briefly added a press…
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You may not remember this, but four years ago Bill Clinton spoke on the third night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. And it turned out to be the hinge of the campaign against Mitt Romney.
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer John McCormack on former president Bill Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention.
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On Tuesday, the boss talked with Andrea Mitchell about the importance of not underestimating Donald Trump and the value of speeches at the Democratic convention.
It is a fact well known to every student of the Constitution that the Framers' fourth national institution—the presidential selection system—never functioned as intended. Yet the 2016 presidential election keeps bringing the Framers' concerns to the forefront, as we lose control of every item on…
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The boss spoke to ABC News about the Democratic convention so far and which events at the convention will have an impact that lasts past the next few days.
The Kremlin snapped back Tuesday at allegations that Russia hacked the Democratic party's email database to sway the U.S. election—without denying the Russian government was behind the attack.
During morning mass Tuesday, two ISIS terrorists stormed a Catholic church in France and killed an 86 year-old priest. Another person was seriously wounded. Monday afternoon, German authorities announced that a suicide bomb attack in Ansbach was perpetrated by a man pledging allegience ISIS leader…
Day one of the Democratic convention was dominated by disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters. The protested in the city; they chanted and booed inside the arena. And so even though 90 percent of Sanders voters now say they're supporting Hillary Clinton, the Sanders vanguard was still fighting.
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The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with online editor Michael Warren on the Bernie disruptions on opening day of the DNC.
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Last week, at several points during the Republican convention, the crowd erupted into chants of "Lock Her Up!" in reference to Hillary Clinton. To say that the media found this distasteful and worthy of stern fingerwagging, would be an understatement. See "The GOP's new convention theme: 'Lock her…
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus floated a conscience exception Monday afternoon for Democratic convention delegates upset by the party's meddling on behalf of Hillary Clinton during the primary.
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At a rally sprinkled with anti-Democratic National Committee and anti-Hillary Clinton signs on Monday in Philadelphia, Bernie Sanders implored his supporters to vote for Clinton and Tim Kaine.
Outgoing Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke through unceasing crowd noise and jeers at a delegate breakfast for her state Monday morning, spinning the tremendous "interest" in her remarks into a plug for Florida.
The Democratic party has been plunged into turmoil over an email focusing on, of all things, whether or not Bernie Sanders believes in God. It's a remarkable turn of events, considering that Sanders has tried so hard to avoid talking about that very subject.
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with editor William Kristol on Hillary's VP pick, Virginia's Tim Kaine.
When news broke that Hillary Clinton had chosen Virginia senator Tim Kaine to be her running mate, NARAL (the group formerly known as the National Abortion Rights Action League) showered praise on Kaine for maintaining a "100% pro-choice voting record in the U.S. Senate." Despite saying that he's a…
The New York Times reports:
Ted Cruz's speech Wednesday night was an impressive endorsement of conservatism, the Constitution, and liberty—and an equally impressive non-endorsement of Donald Trump. It was, in other words, a conservative version of Ted Kennedy's "Dream Will Never Die" speech, given at the 1980 Democratic…
Conservatives are growing worried, and Democrats gleeful, about Obama’s lead in the polls, basically for the same reason: it is late in the season (or so it seems), and the incumbent president has a lead. That is a good thing for Obama.
Last night, Barack Obama proved why he is the most partisan and divisive president in the modern era. Just as he has throughout most of his term, Obama accused the Republican party and American conservatism of being fundamentally un-American--and though he never came right out and said it, he left…
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Start counting Pinocchios. Sandra Fluke began her speech at the Democratic National Convention tonight by claiming that there were no women on the congressional panel on religious liberty that she was turned away from testifying at. Here's what she said:
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Here's video of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose ability to tell the truth has been challenged in recent days, being interviewed by CNN. She insists that "there wasn't any discord" during the now infamous voice vote at the convention today over whether the platform language would…
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To gain access to top officials of the Democratic party at this year's convention, one must donate a large amount of money to the political party or raise money by encouraging others to donate, an ABC article alleges.
Three elected Democrats from Kentucky won't be in Charlotte this fall. The State Journal reports:
John Barrow, the Georgia Democrat, looks to be following the lead of Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and Joe Manchin and Earl Ray Tomblin of West Virginia and will not be attending the Democratic National Convention. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: