Peter Roff

If there's one thing Wednesday's GOP presidential debate made clear, you can still end up with a dumpster fire even without former President Donald J. Trump.

Trump governed as he said he would. Biden has not. In 2024, both will be running on their records.

The Republicans need to abandon consultants who urge their candidates to talk about abortion only when "absolutely necessary."

As outraged as some people are by the attacks on traditional nostrums by those who count themselves among the woke, there aren't enough of them to win.

Why people are leaving California is important, especially now that Governor Gavin Newsom has launched a stealth campaign for president.

We're a country that makes space for all kinds of people and ideas. If we have anything close to a founding principle, it's freedom of thought.

For years, too many in Congress were afraid of any serious effort to reform entitlement programs.

At the moment, the rate for the Fair Tax is set at 23 percent. There's no guarantee it will remain there.

Ask any group of informed voters what's wrong with the Republican Party today and you'll get a variety of answers.

The Democrats were saved because the Republicans tried to win easy instead of fighting smart.

Voters cite inflation, the state of the economy, and the rise in violent crime as the reasons they intend to vote.

Too many political writers cover elections from the same perspective sportswriters cover football. There's color and nuance in both kinds of reporting to be sure, but the numbers drive the narrative.

The thinkers, doers, and funders who brought conservatism back to life in the post-war era are long gone and largely forgotten.

If the GOP wants to lock down its hoped-for majority, it needs to explain to all its coalition of voters what the party's plan is.

The Biden presidency is a disappointment to Americans. The list of problems is long and growing longer.

The media's obsession with Trump, the candidates he's endorsed and whether or not they're winning primaries is only a small part of the story.

One wonders what the Democrats in charge of the party's economic program are thinking—if they indeed think at all.

Elections are too important for their vital elements not to be maintained with the highest degree of scrutiny.

Who among us today can boast they achieved anything close to what George Washington accomplished in his lifetime?

More likely than not, those who are calling the school board's action "book banning" are trying to divert attention from the real issue.

America does not want to be transformed, at least not yet.

Congressional Democrats are willing to throw their seats away in the next election by sticking with Biden's program.

The culture of political correctness is killing comedy.

What cannot be accomplished in a day will be pushed by Democrats for weeks, months and years.

In many places, GOP strategists and party mandarins find themselves in the unenviable position of having to root out the candidates who are merely mimicking the former president's style and positions to win votes to earn an endorsement.

The GOP leadership needs to reflect on how long it can go before it must posit substantive alternatives to the Democrats' radicalism.

As the Court has moved rightward, it has come under increased scrutiny from liberals and progressives who once accepted its decisions.

As social media sites have grown in importance and market cap to become "Big Tech," the public deserves a fuller understanding of whether and how they have sacrificed their noble free speech principles.

The thing most likely to keep Trump from winning the nomination is his need for vindication.

The danger is real, and the American people understand it, especially after everything we've been through during the pandemic.