Author: W. James Antle III

Since President Donald Trump began his march to the top of the Republican Party a decade ago, his backers have offered one simple reason for their support: because he fights. A hallmark of the New Right, the slice of the conservative movement most fervently in Trump’s corner, is the aggressive use of political power to…

Former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris will each try to tell their side of the 2024 campaign story in forthcoming books. The question is whether they will have much interesting to say if they try to keep their stories straight. Harris will get the first word when 107 Days comes out in September.…

Former Vice President Kamala Harris still hopes to be president. That’s the most obvious conclusion to draw from Harris announcing over the course of 24 hours that she is not running for governor of California but is releasing a new book about her failed 2024 presidential campaign. Harris’s book won’t be about failure, of course,…

President Donald Trump’s administration has dropped a bombshell in his second term that threatens to blow up the narrative surrounding the investigation that cast a long shadow over his first. Newly declassified documents cast doubt on whether Russian interference in the 2016 election was fully intended to help Trump win, implicating the president’s political opponents…

President Donald Trump singled out Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard while taking a victory lap with Republican lawmakers at the White House on Tuesday night.  “Oh, where’s Tulsi?” Trump asked while introducing people at the East Room reception. “She’s, like, hotter than everybody. She’s the hottest one in the room right now.” Even hotter…

Exactly one year after his father dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, Hunter Biden began his public revenge tour against the Democratic establishment. In a pair of expletive-laden interviews released on Monday, Hunter Biden teed off on the Democrats who shunted his father aside while inadvertently reminding voters why they rejected the party last…

President Donald Trump is now comparing the Jeffrey Epstein files to the Russia investigation and other past inquiries that disrupted his first term. But unlike Trump-Russia, many of the president’s supporters are deeply invested in what happened with Epstein. High-ranking members of his administration repeatedly promised to release more information to the public before the…

Everybody is talking about Zohran Mamdani, the state legislator and New York City Democratic mayoral nominee who has become a national news story. But not everyone understands why Mamdani has captured so much attention. Some ask why voters in Montana should care who the next mayor of New York City will be. There are several…

A little over a month after President Donald Trump returned to power, the White House hosted an unusual event. A group of conservative commentators and internet personalities went to the Oval Office for the unveiling of files related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Some of the biggest conservative influencers on social media were on…

Republicans are rightly worried about Elon Musk’s threat to form a third party, but for all his considerable talents, the billionaire’s latest political project faces numerous obstacles before it can become a real threat to the status quo. The first is the lack of a candidate. When Musk made his first foray into national politics,…