Hillary Clinton

The dream lives on.

She’s no Sanger.

Plus, the U.S. mercenaries of Yemen.

When Democrats go low, Hillary Clinton goes with them

Hillary Clinton would never have spoken at a political venue—oh. Nevermind.

Plus: Politicians as Plagiarists.

Look at Ozy Fest and despair.

We'll let you guess.

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We read the big speeches so that you don’t have to.

Hillary Clinton seems to have made her choice of post-political career: incessant unfunny whining. Consider her address to Yale University’s graduating class of 2018.

No. It's a cruel conspiracy that shamelessly, and repeatedly, uses the death of an actual person.

Fake News. Here’s “What Happened.”

The New York Times's Amy Chozick, in campaign memoir Chasing Hillary, makes Clinton’s failed campaign personal.

Tom Perez and the DNC file suit against Donald Trump, the Russian government, and Wikileaks.

Peter Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute and the author of Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. Schweizer recently published Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides…

Two weeks after Hillary Clinton sparked an uproar by blaming backward-looking voters in middle America for her 2016 election loss, Republicans are already laying plans to turn her remarks into a major campaign talking point. Missouri Senate candidate Josh Hawley on Monday released two ads tying…

The much-hyped 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels aired Sunday, and did not reveal much more than we already know about the alleged brief sexual relationship between the porn actress and Donald Trump a decade before he became president. Daniels, who signed a non-disclosure agreement about the…

Imagine: A high-level political consultant admits he mined Facebook data to target likely voters in swing states. He says he helped “build this thing called targeted sharing” that “allowed us to use Facebook to persuade people.” Cambridge Analytica? No, that was Democratic strategist Jim Messina,…

The Hillary Unplugged tour made it to India this week, where the former presidential candidate modified her theory as to why she lost the 2016 election. This time, it wasn’t James Comey, or even “the Russians" that did her in. In fact, it was the Americans. Here is what she said:

We’re aware that some elected officials—perhaps more than a few—regard the average voter with contempt. Such politicians may succeed for a time, but contempt is hard to hide, and they soon find themselves giving talks at ritzy confabs about their regrettably brief time in public life.

For anyone counting #MeToo casualties with a wary eye, one of 2018’s first will have stood out. On January 13, in a lengthy exposé published on a website for college-age women, a 23-year-old photographer charged comic Aziz Ansari with the crime of being a bad date. The pseudonymous “Grace”…

Reporting on the Mueller indictment, the New York Times headlined its article, in typical Gray Lady fashion, “Moscow’s Hand Swirled in U.S., but Whether It Tipped Election Is Unclear.” Presumably, an election victory due to the machinations of a foreign “hand” can hardly produce a legitimate…

When is Texas going to turn blue?

In his first public indictment of 2018, special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday announced charges against 13 Russian nationals and three organizations for conspiring in secret to destabilize America’s political institutions.

On Monday, Democrats outperformed Hillary Clinton in two state legislative special elections in Minnesota (senate district 54 and state house district 23B). These races didn’t generate the flashy headlines that some others have—neither seat changed hands and Democratic overperformance was below…

A plane that took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Sunday crashed, killing all 71 people onboard.

On Tuesday, Missouri Democrat Mike Revis won a special election for the state’s 97th House District, barely flipping a district that Donald Trump won by 28 points. Democrats are happy about the victory, using it to argue that voters are generally unhappy with the Republican party. Republicans,…

State Dept. Official Reportedly Passed On Second Trump ‘Dossier’ Written by One of Clinton’s Most Discreditable Supporters

Can anyone think of a better way for the Grammys’ to commemorate the #MeToo movement than to have a failed politician with a long history of protecting alleged sexual harassers read from a book that includes a slimy accusation against our female U.N. ambassador? Because the show organizers…

Activists who oppose abortion doubted Donald Trump when he was a candidate because he had once described himself as "very pro-choice." A year into his presidency, however, they happily point to victories he has achieved for them.

On Tuesday night, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker seemed rattled. In a special election in the state’s 10th Senate district, Democrat Patty Schachtner beat Republican Adam Jarchow, taking over district that voted for Trump by 17 points in 2016. Walker responded by firing off a series of tweets that…

We’ve known for some time that Donald Trump poses a severe challenge to conservatism. What we’re only just beginning to appreciate is that Hillary Clinton poses a challenge, too. The challenge may be stated in the form of a question: Does the right favor the prosecution of Clinton, or not?

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

For a Republican to lose the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions one year after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Alabama by 28 points, everything had to break just right for the Democrat. And it did. Turnout was high in heavily African-American Democratic counties. It was low in rural and…

In May, when deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump,” we welcomed the news. So did the president. “As I…

As the reckoning over sexual abuse finally reaches Bill Clinton, with handwringing by some of his former defenders in the press and in politics, one Clinton White House veteran is following developments with particular interest—and a large measure of skepticism.

Of course the supporters of Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, are standing by their candidate, despite credible charges of sexual misconduct involving underage girls. That is what partisans do. They avow principles that they say they will never surrender, then anoint leaders…

“This is my truth,” says Donna Brazile, the two-time DNC chairwoman of her self-contradictory bestseller.

The wave of sexual abuse allegations against men from Harvey Weinstein to Roy Moore has prompted significant reflection among liberals about how Bill Clinton’s misdeeds were handled and how his accusers were treated in the 1990s.

Donna Brazile's new book, Hacks, is doing boffo box office. So much so that the day after the book’s official release, Amazon was sold out of hardback copies.

After a startling revelation from former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile that the DNC had engineered the party’s primary election system in favor of then-candidate Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump suggested that the primary was illegally stolen from Bernie Sanders.

On October 30, special prosecutor Robert Mueller indicted President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and deputy chairman Rick Gates on 12 charges, including money laundering, false statements, and conspiracy against the United States, related to their work with Ukrainian…

On her Sunday show, MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed that Hillary Clinton did not sit on the panel that approved the Uranium One deal.

The news that a former campaign manager of a sitting president has been indicted would seem like a pretty big deal.

When Steve Bannon became CEO of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, Trump was far behind Hillary Clinton, according to Bannon. “We were 16 points down,” he said.

The indictment of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, on charges of conspiracy and fraud was the big news from special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation Monday morning. But court documents also implicate a lower-level aide who could prove an even bigger headache for the…

When Steve Bannon became CEO of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, Trump was far behind Hillary Clinton, according to Bannon. “We were 16 points down,” he said.

For a moment, we were transported back to the 1990s. There was Hillary Clinton being asked about yet another highly suspect circumstance involving gross improprieties and brazen lies and sidestepping the question by blaming that ever-present confederation: her enemies. “I think the real story is…

The three technology media giants absorbing most of the spotlight for Russian influence in 2016 election on their respective platforms are poised to testify in open hearings next week before Congress.

The House Intelligence and Oversight Committees are investigating Russia’s involvement in a controversial Obama-era uranium deal, the panel’s chairman announced Tuesday.

The New York Times last week broke the story of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s long record of sexual harassment. Actresses including Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd came forward to detail Weinstein’s depredations, and so did former employees of the man who founded one of the most important…

"I want them to hate him," a federal prosecutor said quietly on the evening of October 2 as his colleagues packed up. It had been a long first day in the trial of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the man charged with instigating the tragic 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

"I want them to hate him," a federal prosecutor said quietly on the evening of October 2 as his colleagues packed up. It had been a long first day in the trial of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the man charged with instigating the tragic 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

Responding to tragedy is never easy, but the best response is often the one involving the fewest words. That’s true when a friend receives terrible news—nothing’s worse than the loudmouth uncle trying to be “helpful”—and it’s true in moments of national grief like the present one.

One day, when he was running for the Democratic nomination for president in 1976, Jimmy Carter was asked what he thought about Hubert Humphrey. In fairness to Carter, it should be remembered that Humphrey—the former vice president and 1968 Democratic candidate—was lurking in the background that…

What happened to Hillary Clinton en route to her appointment with destiny? Her new book, What Happened, portrays her as a lifelong fighter on behalf of noble causes, a woman whose quest for the power she deserved was thwarted by a cabal as vast as the one she once said had been after her husband…

On the same day last week, two Democratic women published political memoirs. One was a frank and engaging tale of butting heads with the media and doing battle with an upstart populist progressive. The other was written by Hillary Clinton.

The Scrapbook will admit to a certain fascination with Bill and Hillary Clinton. We’ve read and enjoyed—if enjoyed is the right word—all their mammoth autobiographical works. The latest addition, by the former first lady, senator, and secretary of state, is titled What Happened. It seeks to recount…

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…

If you’re still wondering how Donald Trump, a man whose approval rating sits at 36 percent in a September 6 NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, ever became president, well, here’s a clue: That same poll has Hillary Clinton’s approval rating at 30 percent.

Hillary Clinton is hitting the road (or more likely the chartered skies) to promote her new memoir, due out September 12. It’s a book whose title might have better captured the author’s state of mind if it had included a question mark: What Happened.

Two days after the 2016 election, we had this to say about Donald Trump’s stunning victory:

Two days after the 2016 election, we had this to say about Donald Trump’s stunning victory:

The New York Times has noticed that, as President Trump faces “the sort of politically charged investigation that dogged Bill and Hillary Clinton when they were in the White House in the 1990s, he has consciously adopted a strategy from the Clintons’ playbook.”

The events of this dizzying week present us ample opportunities to take the Earth 2 Test. Imagine we’re on an alternate planet where Hillary Clinton won the election and the parties and players are flipped. Then ask yourself if you would care if she and the Democrats were doing it.

Three prominent figures in the Trump presidential campaign appear to have sought the assistance of a Russian political operative with ties to the Putin government months before last November’s election. This comes via reporting by the New York Times, which broke a story over the weekend that Donald…

Camille Paglia is one America's smartest and most fearless writers. Like Elvis, she's the kind of superstar who really needs no introduction—though it is worth pointing out that Pantheon has just published a collection of her essays on sex, gender, and feminism, titled Free Women, Free Men. It's…

Today's hearing with James Comey contains at least one rather revealing nugget unrelated to the Trump-Russia investigation—that the Obama Justice Department improperly tried to influence the the Clinton email investigation:

On Monday secretary of Defense James Mattis appeared to break with the Obama administration's position of the preceding eight years that there is "no military solution" to the conflict in Afghanistan. At an appearance with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the Defense and Foreign ministers of…

Hillary Clinton spread around the blame in a candid interview with Recode last Wednesday. She called her private email server a "nothingburger" and the Times endorsement of her candidacy a hypocritical reversal—they reduced up the scandal to "a matter for the help desk," after having "covered it…

Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld will be recasting Hillary Clinton's life in a bizarro world where Ms. Rodham might have met but never married Bill. The same Bubba who softened her hard heart, we're to understand, hardened the last glass ceiling over her head.

Note: Fox News retracted the story upon which this report was based on May 23.

In the world of politics, perception becomes reality. But when it comes to the prevailing wisdom about the 2016 presidential elections and their likely impact on the 2018 mid-term elections, perception more closely resembles fake news.

Tuesday at the White House began with an almost unusual stillness, with President Trump having no public appearances on his schedule. Trump met with aides, received his daily intelligence briefing, and tweeted a series of criticisms of his former acting attorney general. A normal morning, really.

FBI director James Comey stood by his October decision to inform lawmakers that his agency had discovered new emails linked to the Hillary Clinton investigation, an event that Clinton and her allies continue to charge swayed the election at the last minute. Comey testified Wednesday before the…

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign has been all the buzz in Washington. The book, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, is full of stories that probably never would have been told if Hillary had eked out an Electoral College win. Not just because a victorious campaign tends not to air…

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign has been all the buzz in Washington. The book, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, is full of stories that probably never would have been told if Hillary had eked out an Electoral College win. Not just because a victorious campaign tends not to air…

The New York Times has a long story about the role FBI chief James Comey played in shaping last year's election. Buried well into the piece is this bombshell:

The September 2016 article in Politico championing Hillary Clinton’s use of "data analytics" now looks—how shall we put it?—rather premature.

The September 2016 article in Politico championing Hillary Clinton’s use of "data analytics" now looks—how shall we put it?—rather premature.

In the summer of 1972, two days after the Watergate break-in, Simon & Schuster published Sen. Edward Kennedy's second book, a scathing condemnation of American medicine entitled In Critical Condition: The Crisis in America's Health Care. Composed largely of excerpts from recent testimony before…

There's an untold story from the 2016 election that should encourage Democrats and worry Republicans. It happened in Houston, the nation's fourth largest city in population and the hometown of former President George H. W. Bush. To be precise it's Harris County, Texas—which consists mostly of…

Democratic antagonism toward attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions continued Wednesday ahead of a confirmation vote, with former presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders following Elizabeth Warren's lead from the night before.

We've all heard the claim that sexism holds women back. But what if there is a deeper, more insidious force preventing women from reaching high levels of office? Is it possible that you could be a sexist—without even knowing it?

Months after Labor Day, three of the inauguration's top billing women came out in white suits. Hillary Clinton and the Trump sisters Tiffany and Ivanka were all wearing the color of sisterhood, according to CNN's Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash who noted the significane of Clinton's styling.

Picture The Clintons as a top TV series that made its debut in January 1992, as Bill and Hillary appeared on 60 Minutes on Super Bowl Sunday to refute charges that Bill had had a fling with a chanteuse called Gennifer Flowers. It peaked in 1998 with the gigantic impeachment debacle (a loser for…

Picture The Clintons as a top TV series that made its debut in January 1992, as Bill and Hillary appeared on 60 Minutes on Super Bowl Sunday to refute charges that Bill had had a fling with a chanteuse called Gennifer Flowers. It peaked in 1998 with the gigantic impeachment debacle (a loser for…

Over at Fox News, the headline blares: "Clinton Global Initiative to lay off employees, shut down amid dwindling donations." Let's pause for a moment and contemplate why donations to the overarching Clinton Foundation would be dwindling. It's almost as if it were really a vehicle for influence…

Hillary Clinton, fresh off her defeat by Donald J. Trump, is said to be considering a comeback via a run for mayor of New York City this very year. Or at least some powerful New York Democrats who can't stand current Democratic mayor Bill de Blasio—thanks partly to the dirtier, more disorderly…

The crosstabs of the latest YouGov poll show that the majority of Democrats have embraced a reading of the November election that is conspiratorial and false:

In the latest episode of Conversations with Bill Kristol, the WEEKLY STANDARD editor at large speaks with National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg about politics and culture. Watch the video below, via the Foundation for Constitutional Government:

So long as everyone expected a Hillary Clinton victory in November's presidential election, high-minded rhetoric ruled the day at the White House. Michelle Obama's quote from the Clinton campaign trail—"When they go low, we go high"—became something of a mantra. Initially, Barack Obama even spoke…

On MSNBC's Morning Joe Tuesday, editor at large Bill Kristol discussed the idea of reintroducing liberty into the political discourse following a presidential election where the idea was absent on both sides.

Despite a heavy campaign to sway—even harass—Republican electors in, the only really unpredictable about Monday's Electoral College vote was that more Democratic electors defected from Hillary Clinton than from Donald Trump. Per Politico, Clinton advisers were not happy with even more votes of no…

Vogue magazine and the drab world of politics are not much alike. They are prose vs. poetry, fact vs. fiction, words vs. music, dreams vs. the cold light of day. Politics is mundane and essential to the running of everything; Vogue is escape and essential to nothing, dealing in luxuries that would…

Editor at large William Kristol's weekly Kristol Clear podcast on Russian hacking, Obama's last press conference, the continuing Democratic post-election freakout, and why (or why not) pardoning Hillary would be a great idea.

The latest Fox News poll shows 68 percent of Americans say President Obama should not pardon Hillary Clinton on his way out of the White House, and I agree. Donald Trump should do it.

Having run twice, and unsuccessfully, for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton is now an official object lesson in how not to run for political office. No doubt, Clinton was a subpar candidate—especially when compared with her husband—but one strike against her is manifestly unfair: that she had…

Is the CIA, or some part of it, angry with Donald Trump? Even before the president-elect perhaps unwisely insulted the agency by citing its failures to assess correctly the status of Saddam Hussein's WMD program, someone high up at the CIA seemed to have it in for the incoming commander-in-chief.

Having run twice, and unsuccessfully, for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton is now an official object lesson in how not to run for political office. No doubt, Clinton was a subpar candidate—especially when compared with her husband—but one strike against her is manifestly unfair: that she had…

More than two-thirds of registered voters do not want President Obama to pardon Hillary Clinton before he leaves office next month, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday evening.

The Clinton campaign of 2016 will surely go down in history as having made some of the most incredible strategic mistakes in the history of American politics. And we're still learning just how bad it was—a Politico report Wendesday morning contains this shocking detail:

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:

Reports Friday that U.S. intelligence agencies believe Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign to tilt the election in favor of Donald Trump have sown precisely the kind of confusion that American adversaries must have hoped for with their actions. In an effort to reach some sort of…

The government of New York City is offering counseling and support services for its city workers who are feeling "distressed" or "vulnerable" following last month's elections. In an email sent to city government employees last week and obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD, a coalition of agencies…

Hillary Clinton, speaking at the United States Capitol Thursday to unveil a portrait of outgoing senator Harry Reid, called "fake news" a "danger" to the country.

Vogue magazine and the drab world of politics are not much alike. They are prose vs. poetry, fact vs. fiction, words vs. music, dreams vs. the cold light of day. Politics is mundane and essential to the running of everything; Vogue is escape and essential to nothing, dealing in luxuries that would…

When Hillary Clinton lost the election nearly four weeks ago, one of my graduate school professors ran her concession speech live during my international law class (the United Nations is supreme; universal healthcare is a right; George W. Bush is bad; etc.). His choice didn't bother me…

Top aides for the presidential campaigns for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were involved in heated and emotional exchanges during a quadrennial forum at Harvard University's Institute of Politics. The Washington Post reports:

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The Scrapbook has been experiencing déjà vu recently. Our memories of the vast left-wing paranoia during the Bush years had become hazy, but this week they all came flooding back. The left was already displaying unusual difficulty in coming to terms with Donald Trump's election victory, but then…

The Scrapbook has been experiencing déjà vu recently. Our memories of the vast left-wing paranoia during the Bush years had become hazy, but this week they all came flooding back. The left was already displaying unusual difficulty in coming to terms with Donald Trump's election victory, but then…

Over the weekend Ross Douthat had an interesting column about the"crisis of liberalism." "The 2016 campaign was a crisis for conservatism," he writes, "its aftermath is a crisis for liberalism."

Donald Trump's incoming administration will not further investigate former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's private email server scheme nor her family's charitable foundation, MSNBC's Morning Joe reported Tuesday.

Not long after the election, the front page of the Washington Post featured a wonderful piece about how Bill and Hillary Clinton lost touch with their home base and with it the White House; along with that came a number of other good stories about how and why. So far so good, as the paper's A…

Minnesota congressman Keith Ellison is the progressive favorite for Democratic National Committee chairman. If Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders get their way, he'll replace disgraced Donna Brazile, who replaced disgraced Debbie Wasserman Schultz, as the party's chief organizer.

Not long after the election, the front page of the Washington Post featured a wonderful piece about how Bill and Hillary Clinton lost touch with their home base and with it the White House; along with that came a number of other good stories about how and why. So far so good, as the paper’s A…

The recriminations and agonies among the defeated have begun, and they are enough to break your heart. Hillary Clinton, who has been in the political world her entire adult life, is treated as a tragic figure by some. Jonathan Alter writes in the Daily Beast that

An unadvertised (so far) sale is underway at the Hillary Clinton campaign store, including the "Woman Card" the campaign issued in April to tweak Donald Trump. When the card was introduced, the campaign wrote:

Since Hillary Clinton's crushing defeat last week, there have been a lot of stories about Clinton campaign hubris. Specifically, the Democrats seemed to badly whiff on a lot of campaign fundamentals: don't nominate someone under FBI investigation who has no retail political skills; have a clear…

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"This could blow up in her face! Hillary Clinton may have lit the fuse for her victory celebration a little too soon—by planning an Election Night explosion of fireworks over the Hudson River, The Post has learned.

One more unforeseen consequence of Donald Trump's election victory: College students who have been spending too much time at binge drinking or television watching now have a handy excuse for not turning in that required paper on time or for being unprepared for that exam. They can blame it on the…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Mark Hemingway on yesterday's election.

Saying the presidency is "bigger than any of us", President Barack Obama complimented the big-picture message of President-elect Donald Trump's victory speech during remarks outside the White House on Wednesday morning, adding that his team would conduct a smooth transition to his successor's…

Hillary Clinton delivered her concession speech in the presidential race late Wednesday morning at the New Yorker hotel, blocks from the venue planned for her victory party the night before—where, not long after 2 a.m., Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta had taken the podium to send…

The Associated Press has called Indiana for Donald Trump, whose vice-presidential pick is governor of the state, as the first polls close on across America.

Since there will be an avalanche of post-election analysis on Wednesday, I thought it would be more helpful to give you some thoughts on what to look for tonight as the returns come in.

I spend a lot of time these days wondering if anyone has ever given more thought to a relatively meaningless vote than I have this year.

Wilmington, N.C.

This presidential election cycle has defied conventional wisdom in so many ways that the list is about as long as Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. Who would have thought a year ago we'd find ourselves here—with these specific candidates and many an "October surprise"—with less than 24 hours…

Rebuilding America Now PAC has a new ad airing in Northern Virginia attacking Hillary Clinton for her opposition to the name of the Washington Redskins football team.

Over the weekend, New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro wrote the following squib, "In 1 Unscripted Moment, Hillary Clinton Finds Joy in the Rain," which for reasons both unsurprising and only known to the editors, the Grey Lady saw fit to print:

In the days since FBI Director James Comey wrote to congressional leaders revealing new information in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, Clinton defenders have been spinning furiously in an attempt to mitigate the potential political damage. They have attacked Comey, blamed a rogue band of…

As more and more of Hillary Clinton's emails come to light, previously obscure connections with and influences on Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state have also arisen. The latest batch of emails revealed one such case involving Clinton's daughter Chelsea and, by extension, the Clinton…

There's a reason presidents are wary of campaigning actively to elect their successor. Presidents are the past. Presidential candidates are the future. Presidents can raise money and draw crowds at campaign events. But speeches? That's asking for trouble.

"I never vote for anyone. I always vote against." –W.C. Fields

Greenville, N.C.

Editor William Kristol's weekly Kristol Clear podcast, where Kristol makes his final predictions for the (seemingly never-ending) 2016 presidential race.

One of the more humorous aspects of the Hillary Clinton email kerfuffle has been the former secretary of state's penchant for asking various staffers to print out her emails (the federal government's Paperwork Reduction Act notwithstanding) with the short instruction "Pls print." A search for the…

FBI investigators are building a case around alleged "pay to play" tactics at the Clinton Foundation, according to a report, and two sources cited in a separate account say they are confident in the increasing body of evidence. But the news comes amid tales of personnel conflict, both within the…

This has not been an especially ennobling election. Or a rewarding one. Or even entertaining. Pretty much everything about 2016 has been boorish and grotesque. But finally it is time to laugh.

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Mark Hemingway on his recent editorial, "Yes, 'It's a Scandal.'"

Donald Trump, whose recent campaign trips to Wisconsin suggested his campaign thought the Badger State might be in play, is losing to Hillary Clinton in a new poll of likely voters there. The Marquette University law school's survey found in a head-to-head match-up, Clinton leads Trump by 4…

On Wednesday, Bill Kristol joined MSNBC's Morning Joe to discuss the state of the race. With regard to early voting patterns and other early indicators, Kristol said, "It still looks to me like Hillary Clinton wins."

A computer-related "theft of information" at the Clinton Foundation, confirmed by United States Secret Service personnel but so far denied by the Foundation, is prompting new questions about the Clintons' use of public resources for Hillary Clinton's private email server. The cyber crime committed…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior editor Christopher Caldwell on the Clintons and their scandals.

Donald Trump should pledge to serve one term as president, suggested WEEKLY STANDARD editor Bill Kristol. Speaking with Brit Hume on Fox News Monday night, Kristol explained that such a pledge might endear the Republican nominee to swing voters who remain unsure about Trump but find Hillary Clinton…

An infographic on the front page of Tuesday's Financial Times informs us that "just 3 percent of [Trump or Clinton] voters expect their spouse or partner" will vote for a different presidential candidate than they will.

Daycare used to be downright quaint: When I was a kid, my "daycare center" was Mr. and Mrs. Cummings' front yard across the street from my house. I walked there after school and under their careful watch I played every dangerous game that existed until my parents got home from work. The cost of…

Democrats have all but gone to war with FBI director James Comey. Their anger at him comes after Comey sent a letter to Congress last week that announced he would be reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server as secretary of state. But President Barack Obama, who…

To help her reach a decision on who to pick as a running mate, Hillary Clinton's team separated three dozen Democrats into seven "food groups," according to hacked emails recently released by WikiLeaks.

South Carolina representative Trey Gowdy slammed Harry Reid in multiple interviews Sunday and Monday for his accusation that FBI director James Comey may have violated the Hatch Act, which limits the political activity of executive branch employees, in reopening the investigation into Hillary…

When long-time Hillary Clinton aide and confidant Huma Abedin came under fire in 2012 for alleged links to a radical Islamic group, the legendary Clinton damage-control squad sprang into action, with one member of the unofficial team telling another, "We don't f*ck around when it comes to Huma."

Tim Kaine kept returning to one telling word Sunday. Hillary Clinton's running mate appeared on ABC News's This Week and was on-message responding to Friday's news that FBI director James Comey is looking at a new source of emails in Clinton's home-brew server scandal. "This is an unprecedented…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with executive editor Fred Barnes on the recent revelations that the FBI is again looking into emails related to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The mystery of the "unrelated investigation"—by which the FBI director James Comey says the Bureau came across new emails-of-interest involving Hillary Clinton—didn't last long. The New York Times is among sites reporting that the FBI found the emails in question on devices belonging to disgraced…

The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state after the discovery of new, relevant emails.

Reports have it that Hillary Clinton is considering Joe Biden for secretary of state in her administration. The bench of popular, high profile Democrats isn't exactly deep these days and Biden has always been particularly interested in foreign policy, so on a superficial level recruiting Biden for…

A new poll of four swing states from Quinnipiac University shows Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump slipping in three likely must-win states.

Oprah Winfrey is excited about the election: "I see that we're about to have a woman president," she told talk-show host T.D. Jakes. And that's important not just for the mundane matters of governance—for finding someone competent to sit in the big chair—but for the larger impact it has on society:…

Donald Trump was down by six percentage points to Hillary Clinton two weeks ago, five last week, and three in the new Fox News poll in the presidential race. This isn't a surge. But Trump is gaining. And there's pattern behind it.

A new Hillary Clinton ad from EMILY's List, a PAC for female Democrat candidates, uses a popular meme to make the former secretary of state, senator, and first lady into a smarmy millennial mascot. In a gender-bending riff on the "Most Interesting Man in the World"—a commercial for Dos Equis beer…

New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte shot back at Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren Wednesday, after Warren reiterated Donald Trump's charge that Ayotte was "weak" during a rally in New Hampshire Monday.

Republicans may have an opportunity to salvage the election on the congressional level by making an explicit pitch to voters that they can stop Hillary Clinton on Obamacare and taxes. Online editor Michael Warren joined MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday to discuss the lessons of 1996, as well as why…

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Can Republicans salvage their congressional majorities in the Year of Trump? Each day brings conflicting evidence. Donald Trump's stalling poll numbers are depressing performance for Republican Senate candidates in swing states like Nevada and Florida, and some are predicting big losses for the GOP…

Former Pennsylvania attorney general and Hillary Clinton ally Kathleen Kane received 10 to 23 months of jail time on Monday, months after resigning her position upon being convicted of multiple criminal offenses, including two felony counts of perjury.

Draper, Utah

Despite Hillary Clinton's repeated assurances that her use of a personal email account and server was not an issue in the security and preservation of her correspondence as secretary of state, evidence continues to pile up to the contrary. Not only did Secretary Clinton use her own personal…

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by double digits among likely voters, according to the latest ABC News poll released Sunday.

Donald Trump believes he has lost the presidential election. That's the only reasonable explanation for the Republican nominee's decision on Saturday in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to reiterate his claim that the more than 10 women who have accused Trump of past acts of sexual assault are liars.…

Editor William Kristol's weekly Kristol Clear podcast on why Trump is toast, and why it's now time for smart Republicans in Congress to start running against Hillary. Also, a review of Thursday's Al Smith Dinner fiasco, and why it became emblamatic of everything wrong with politics today in one…

Elsewhere in this issue, our colleague Mark Hemingway surveys the revelations contained in the WikiLeaks release of hacked emails from Clintonista John Podesta. Without giving too much away (see "Scandal? What Scandal?"), it will not surprise you to learn that the emails confirm two obvious points:…

On March 5, 2015, John Podesta, former White House chief of staff and longtime Clinton family confidant, received an email from his daughter. “I'm heading back to NY tonight. Any chance you're staying in nyc b/c of weather (or scandal)?" she asked. Podesta responded, "What scandal? A few e-mails…

Elsewhere in this issue, our colleague Mark Hemingway surveys the revelations contained in the WikiLeaks release of hacked emails from Clintonista John Podesta. Without giving too much away (see “Scandal? What Scandal?" on page 28), it will not surprise you to learn that the emails confirm two…

A Supreme Court nominee must be confirmed by the Senate in order to be appointed by the president. But for months now the Republican-controlled Senate has refused to consider the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama's choice to fill the seat opened by the death of Justice Antonin…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Stephen F. Hayes on Wednesday's presidential debate.

Talking with Fox News's John Fox on Thursday, Stephen Hayes talked about Donald Trump's knack for turning legitimate issues into outlandish conspiracy theories.

Las Vegas

Virtually everyone around Donald Trump has offered assurances in recent days that the Republican nominee will accept the results of the election on November 8. Then on Wednesday, Trump refused to do so. And with his answer, he lost the debate and ensured, if it wasn't already a certainty, that he…

Third presidential debates usually don't matter. And there's a reason. The candidate who's behind tries to avoid mistakes made in the earlier debates and sound more clear-minded and knowledgeable. The candidate who's ahead simply plays it safe.

Let's get this out of the way up top: This was, by far, Trump's most disciplined debate performance. For 32 minutes, he almost sounded like a normal presidential candidate and for the first hour he wasn't terrible. Trump even seems to have spent some time preparing. He knew the name of a Supreme…

Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump "thinks belittling women makes him bigger" and that he "goes after their dignity [and] their self-worth." Clinton went hard after the Republican nominee at the third presidential debate Wednesday, in reaction to the news that a number of women have accused Trump of…

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."

During Wednesday's presidential debate, Chris Wallace asked Hillary Clinton about the extent of her abortion support.

The continuing revelations about the Patrick Kennedy's efforts to hide or downplay the classified emails on Hillary Clinton's server will be overshadowed for the next two days by the third presidential debate Wednesday in Las Vegas. But this clear and compelling Wall Street Journal editorial offers…

Wednesday night will probably be the last time Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are ever in a room together. (Unless Madam President accepts the invitation to Trump's next wedding.) But other than as a historical footnote, this debate doesn't really matter.

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Less than 24 hours after the FBI released documents confirming discussions of a bargain between the FBI and State Department over reclassification of at least one classified Hillary Clinton email, the spokesman for the State Department categorically denied that any such discussions ever happened.

If further evidence were needed that this country faces two choices going forward on health care, a leaked Hillary Clinton email just provided it. The choices we face are (a) the repeal of Obamacare and its replacement with a conservative alternative, or (b) a government monopoly. Obamacare cannot…

A top staffer at the progressive advocacy group Americans United for Change was fired from his post on Tuesday after he was caught on camera claiming the organization paid mentally ill people to instigate violence at campaign events for Donald Trump.

Members of Hillary Clinton's inner circle agreed to leverage support for Israel with donors but to remain silent on the subject around Democratic activists, according to hacked emails published by WikiLeaks.

A Secret Service agent assigned to protect former President Bill Clinton performed "network assessments" and information technology troubleshooting for the Clinton Foundation and also provided research on security issues for Bill and Hillary Clinton's email server in Chappaqua, New York. These…

Like almost every Republican incumbent in a battleground state this year, Florida senator Marco Rubio had to survive the Donald Trump portion of a debate Monday night before he could focus the event on his own race. He succeeded in doing both—and he took advantage by outmaneuvering Democratic…

Besides choosing the next president, voters have a second and equally important obligation on November 8. They must elect a strong and clear-minded Congress to protect the country against the extreme policies of both candidates. It will take a Republican Congress to do this.

On Monday, senior writer Stephen Hayes replied to partisan criticisms of his recent reporting on failed efforts by a State Department official to convince the FBI to reclassify an email on Hillary Clinton's server.