Charles Krauthammer: In His Own Words

A couple of hours ago I was commiserating with a friend who was also working on a short tribute to Charles Krauthammer. We were both having a tough...

Local Hero

Readers who’ve spent time before city or county councils may know how lawless these bodies can sometimes be. Many hold “public” meetings...

Little Durantys

Like hundreds of other media outlets, Vox.com sent reporters to cover President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un...

Caldwell on European Disunion

In April, PBS announced that it will reboot Firing Line, the long-running public affairs television program hosted by William F. Buckley. The new...

Hooliganism Assurances

The World Cup is well underway in Russia, and that country’s authorities have given “assurances” to visiting nations that their fans will be...

A Strange Interlude, Indeed

I would be the first to concede that President Trump’s behavior at the recent G7 summit, while not unexpected, was certainly unconventional. In...

What Happened to the GOP Surge?

At the beginning of June, it looked like the "Blue Wave" might be turning into a blue ripple. The Republicans had suddenly pulled the Democratic...

Breaking: Einstein Lived in the Past

Few heroes of the past can escape the censure of today’s bigotry police. Every week, it seems, brings news that some heretofore revered figure said...

The Disease of Political Jealousy

There are polls about how Americans rate Congress—very low!—but of course there are no polls about how congressmen and senators rate the...

Human Rights Council

Dirty Words

‘Profanity, like any other art,” wrote H. L. Mencken, “has had its ups and downs—its golden ages of proliferation and efflorescence and its...

Is China Easing Pressure on Kim Jong-un?

President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign against North Korea, built piece by piece over the past year and a half, has borne a...

Trump's Big Backtrack?

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, Kelly Jane Torrance and Jim Swift join host Charlie Sykes to talk about America's southern border and the...

The New Cruelty

In the movie L.A. Story, the character played by Chevy Chase goes to a hyper-fashionable restaurant named, appropriately enough, L’Idiot. He is...

Organized Labor’s Last Judgment

The Supreme Court is expected to rule, any minute now, against public sector unions collecting mandatory fees from non-members in Janus v. AFSCME,...

The Substandard on Incredibles 2, Pixar, and Dishwashers

On this latest episode, the Substandard discusses Incredibles 2 and the future of Pixar—JVL ranks the worst Pixar movies. Sonny exposes A Wrinkle...

Meet the Academics Who Are Trying to Save Free Speech

There is truth to the cliché that academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so low. But the stakes might not be as low as we think....

Separation Anxiety

Images of screaming children torn away from parents, photos of toddlers and even babies sitting alone in characterless detention centers, repellent...

Remembering Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer, who died Thursday from complications of cancer, was a contributing editor at THE WEEKLY STANDARD from the magazine's founding...

Donald Trump Doesn’t Even Understand Trade Deficits

Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs executive who until recently served in the White House as top economic adviser to President Donald Trump,...

Prufrock: Manual Manhood, Lincoln’s Humor, and Václav Benda’s Dissent

Is the Dow Jones Industrial Average a good indicator of the state of the American economy? Not really, says Alexis Madrigal: “There is a...

How Lindsey Graham Became a Neo-Trumper

Lindsey Graham is running a half-hour late when he arrives back at his Senate office at 6:00 p.m. for an interview, but that’s understandable....

Victoria Nuland Can’t Keep Her Steele Story Straight

Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland made a bombshell admission Wednesday at an otherwise quiet...

The Shallow State

On June 14, Michael Horowitz, the Department of Justice’s inspector general, released a long-awaited report on the partisan shenanigans of a few...

The Child Brides of Dearborn

When Amal was 15 years old, her best friend Jasmin stopped coming to school. They were both freshmen at Fordson High School, in Dearborn, Michigan,...

Why Trump (Probably) Won’t Fire Mueller

For much of the past year, speculation has swirled that President Trump will fire Robert Mueller, the independent counsel investigating supposed...

GOP Lawmakers Set High Bar for Potential Trump-Putin Meeting

The White House announced Thursday that National Security Adviser John Bolton would be heading to Moscow next week to discuss a potential meeting...

Afternoon Links: Woke Dogs, Ask Mike Warren Anything, and Dorms for Congress?

Wait, seven months? Last November, U.S. Park Police shot and killed Bijan Ghaisar after he lead them on a chase in his Jeep Cherokee. Seven(!)...

House Votes Down One Immigration Bill, Delays Vote on Another

House Republican leaders announced Thursday afternoon that a previously scheduled vote on the GOP's so-called compromise immigration bill would be...

Why You Should Care About Clinton Crony Peter Kadzik

It’s a measure of how overabundant the scandal news is in the Justice Department inspector general’s report that the Peter Kadzik story has...

Afternoon Links: The Kids Are Not Alright, Only in Russia, and the Best Lt. Governor Ever?

The kids are not alright. You may remember yesterday’s look at Turning Point USA’s women’s leadership summit, but hold on. There’s more. My...

Koch Group to Launch Campaign Against Trump Tariffs

The Koch Network is launching a television and radio advertising campaign to push back against President Donald Trump’s tariffs. According to a...

Introducing SwingSeat

After a lot of number-crunching, the SwingSeat model is officially live, with probabilistic forecasts for each 2018 Senate race and chamber...

The Administration Was Right to Withdraw

On Tuesday, the administration made official what it had threatened to do for months. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.N. Ambassador Nikki...

Meet the Iranian Police Who Enforce Iran's Islamist Ideology

In the wake of more than 20 deaths that punctuated the early days of Iran’s nationwide protests, the country’s police chief boldly identified...

Foreign Policy by Dummies

There seems to be some confusion about the president’s foreign policy, so here is a guide that might prove useful. By the policy-maker in chief,...

$ending Kids to College Ain't What It Used to Be

Dear Matt, I haven't slept more than five hours at a time in the last month, or seen my wife or played with my dogs or done any of the things I...

The Princess of Darkness Is a Lady

Tara Isabella Burton’s debut novel Social Creature plumbs the depths of intense female friendships—obsession, manipulation, co-dependence,...

House Republicans Have an…. Interesting Plan to Stop Family Separation

House Republican leaders say they don’t want migrant families to be separated at the border. Yet in peak House form, their strategy to solve the...

The Substandard on AMC vs. MoviePass

On this latest micro episode, the Substandard breaks down the battle between MoviePass and now AMC Stubs A-List. JVL insists AMC Stubs membership...

Breaking Down the SwingSeat Model

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, chief elections analyst David Byler discusses his newly introduced SwingSeat senate prediction model with host...

Prufrock: How de Gaulle became de Gaulle, the Return of Shirley Collins, and the OED’s Search for Regionalisms

An inflated art market and new technology lead to more forgeries. It is James Martin’s job to find them. “Like criminals of every stripe,...

Fact Check: Did Democrats Pass a Law Separating Children and Adults at the Southern Border?

During an interview on Friday, Trump stated that a law passed by Democrats was the reason illegal immigrants were being separated from the children...

Trump Questions GOP Immigration Bill Hours Before Meeting With House Republicans

If anyone knows what, exactly, President Donald Trump wants to include in his ideal immigration bill, I’d like to hear from them. So would the...

Elon Musk's Latest Deal Is (also) Crazy

Elon Musk is in the news. (Again.) The latest announcement came last Thursday when Musk’s Boring Company signed a contract with the city of Chicago...

Pentagon Suspends Planning for Upcoming South Korea Military Exercise

The Pentagon said Monday night that it has suspended all planning for a major military exercise with South Korea that had been set for August,...

Searching for Nuance at the Border

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, Michael Warren joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the fierce debate about illegal immigration and parents and...

Fact Check: Has the World Health Organization Added 'Gaming Disorder' as a Mental Health Condition?

An article from the website MedicalXpress was published on Facebook Monday and quickly flagged by users as possibly containing misinformation. “...

My Dinners with Roger

Everyone should have one friend who is a really big tipper. Mine was Roger Mahan. Mahan, who passed away June 1, was well known in conservative...

U.S. Withdrawing from U.N. Human Rights Council

The Trump administration is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley said Tuesday, describing the body...

Google Searching for Moral High Ground in the Wrong Places

Google has a problem: The company’s incredibly gifted and creative employees are also profoundly ignorant—and in a way that threatens our...

The SPLC Pays for Its Defamation

It was quite a comeuppance. On Monday Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), apologized to the Quilliam Foundation for...

Fake News From DHS

As Americans continue to react with horror to stories of families being torn apart at the U.S.-Mexico border, the White House has struggled to...

Prufrock: War and the Rise of GPS, the Wit and Wisdom of Dr. Johnson, and the Last Cowboys

How the Bill of Rights displaced the Constitution: “Today most Americans assume Congress can do whatever the Bill of Rights doesn't forbid. The...

Why Are So Many Yemenis Seeking Asylum in South Korea?

Jeju, a subtropical, volcanic island off of South Korea has an almost mythical status in Korean consciousness. The island is famed for its...

Afternoon Links: The Congressional Baseball Game, Employees Against a Wage Hike, and a Safe Space for Collegiate Republicans

Will the U.S. stand with North Korean dissidents? That’s what Natan Sharansky is asking in a thought-provoking column at the Washington Post....

Harvard Forced to Confront Racial Policies

Does Harvard University discriminate against Asian-Americans? That’s the question now before a federal court in Boston. On Friday, a nonprofit...

6 Ways The EPA Is Wasting Your Money

Congress recently voted to raise the budget caps that limited the amount of money they can spend. While doing so, they claimed that the budget caps...

Fact Check: Did Pope Francis Parallel 'Abortion to Avoid Birth Defects' to Nazi Eugenics?

Facebook users seemed befuddled at a recent blog post from McBlog claiming that Pope Francis had compared “aborting babies with birth defects” to...

How the GOP Blew its Best Chance at Immigration Reform

The federal government is currently taking in more than 200 children a day, with many of them placed in a former Walmart near the southern border....

All of the Administration's Bad Excuses for Its Lousy Immigration Policy

For weeks now, we’ve been hearing about the travails of the White House communications team: That they’re hemorrhaging employees, that the...

Why Can't the White House Figure Out Why It's Separating Families?

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, Andrew Egger and Jim Swift discuss the latest in the debate over immigration policy and detained children and...

Prufrock: The Stanford Prison Experiment Sham, Jane Kenyon’s Peonies, and Living in France

Belated happy Father’s Day, dads. Hope it was a good one. Here in southeastern Virginia, after an excellent morning service, I hit the trails at...