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Littwin: Trump plays a grown-up; enemies of the people swoon

For an hour or so, Donald Trump acted like a normal adult. The nation was shocked, and much of the media was all aswoon....

Wiretap: Echo chambers, a failing dam and the corporate tax cuts...

Twitter war The new media: Barack Obama says on a podcast with his old pal David Axelrod that he would have beaten Donald Trump for...

Wiretap: Chemical weapons, bathroom laws and Trump’s big lie about maternal...

False accusation Donald Trump, at daughter Ivanka Trump's urging, is showing his soft side by proposing paid maternal leave (no paternal leave; maybe because he's...

Littwin: Killing the messenger won’t help

Let's dispel with the fiction that Matt Lauer's embarrassing performance at the big, prime-time presidential forum was the problem. Yes, he was awful. No, it...

Littwin: Trump is ready to face the prospect that he might...

We've reached that point in the campaign where everyone is suddenly afraid to state the obvious. What we need is a truth teller. Someone...

Palin on anti-immigrant rhetoric: “It’s not hate speech, it’s common sense”

Sarah Palin took on corporate politicos, the #NeverTrump movement and allegations of racism against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in a 25-minute speech...

Wiretap: Ted Cruz to police: ‘Secure Muslim neighborhoods’

Poor Jeb! Jeb, desperate to stop Trump, endorses Ted Cruz, who in the day after the Brussels terror attack, proposed that cops "patrol and secure Muslim...

Koch-trained spinmeister smears Bennet with bunk

The anti-Bennet spin-machine is at it again, flinging mud at Colorado's senior Senator, with no regard for the facts. The new digital attack campaign from Advancing...

Littwin: On Trump’s Muslim ban and why ‘proto-fascism’ is winning

Littwin writes: "Donald Trump has brilliantly exploited white working class unease, with Obama, with immigration, with ISIS, and now with homegrown radical terrorism and...

Wiretap: Why Obama isn’t afraid of ISIS

Avoiding doomsday U.S. strategy against ISIS: Knowing that the Islamic State wants a ground war with the United States in order to fulfill a prophecy...