Ever since two debates ago, Marco Rubio has been positioning himself as the anti-Trump, even embracing the Twitter trend #NeverTrump, a label that many Republicans have taken up in opposition to ever […]
Super Saturday Alters the Race
A Super Tuesday Autopsy
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton emerge today as the clear victors of the Super Tuesday primaries. Trump scored victories in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia. Clinton came first in […]
We Have No Clue What We’re Doing
We, the citizens of the United States of America, are flirting with the prospective nominations of a real-estate totalitarian and a 74-year-old socialist who honeymooned in the USSR. We have absolutely no […]
Get Ready: Super Tuesday Is Approaching
Tuesday marks the biggest day of the GOP primary season when 13 states and American Samoa vote. Campaigns are already at work spinning expectations to prevent media reports of underperforming. With most […]
A Dent in Trump’s Crown?
Last night was the last Republican debate before Super Tuesday, and the results make Donald Trump’s coronation as the Republican nominee look a little less inevitable. Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio […]
The Race Takes Shape in South Carolina, Nevada
The third election night of the 2016 election cycle has come and gone with minimal contest for the winners, Clinton in Nevada and Trump in South Carolina. Nevada was a much clearer […]
It’s Not Me, It’s EU
Last Thursday, Professor Jan-Werner Müller of the Politics Department at Princeton echoed a statement that resounds through the ranks of EU politicians and academics alike. Something deep, dark, and authoritarian is brewing […]
Republicans Must Use Trump’s Tactics Against Him
This election season has been far from conventional. Often, when the political pundits have predicted something to happen, exactly the opposite has happened. This is especially pertinent in relation to the rise […]
The Statesman Honors Antonin Scalia
Yesterday, America lost a brilliant scholar and legal giant. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a linchpin of conservatism and originalism, passed away at a ranch in West Texas at the age of […]
The GOP Death Match
With the 9th Republican debate of the 2016 election behind us, things are more heated than ever. Going into the South Carolina debate, fireworks between Trump and Cruz were expected after recent […]
Dem Debate: Can Republicans Bring the Heat?
After the last Democratic debate, it is even more abundantly clear what today’s Democratic party stands for and what the party stands against. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders spent most of their time […]
NH Votes: Trump, Sanders Win, Rubio Shaken
Tuesday night’s New Hampshire first-in-the-nation primary followed polling much more closely than Iowa’s results did. Trump, as expected, won outright, with Kasich coming in second as the strongest establishment candidate in this […]
