Author: W. James Antle III

Whenever President Donald Trump has been called into question during his second term, even by allies and MAGA influencers, his grassroots supporters have so far given him the benefit of the doubt. That proved true on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the tax and spending legislation Trump signed into law on July 4 just…

President Donald Trump may have averted a wider war with Iran, but he is now taking the fight to a more familiar foe: the media. The White House and Pentagon have pushed back strongly against reporting calling into question the efficacy of U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, with Trump himself accusing…

A big question for national Democrats is whether it’s good news that Zohran Mamdani is their party’s nominee for mayor of New York City. The 33-year-old, Ugandan-born Muslim socialist who bested former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary with surprising ease on Tuesday night would have once seemed like a walking advertisement…

Much has been made of the ideological split in the Republican Party since President Donald Trump ordered strikes against Iran, but there is also a generation gap. Younger voters have been among the most skeptical of military intervention in the Middle East generally and against Iran specifically. Trump supporters have not been immune to this…

President Donald Trump is a unique political figure, both his admirers and detractors would agree. But as he decides whether to become directly involved in Israel’s military strikes against Iran, some comparisons can be made to several of his predecessors. Like Ronald Reagan, Trump’s opponents have cast him as a warmonger despite a much more…

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) says he agrees with Republicans that there shouldn’t be any illegal immigrants in the U.S., but his solution is to grant them all legal status rather than deport them. “To my Republican colleagues who say I don’t want any undocumented people in this country, I actually agree with you,” the 28-year-old…

When Vice President JD Vance weighed in to defend his boss, President Donald Trump, on Iran, he was coming from a different place than many of his predecessors. Unlike Dick Cheney under George W. Bush, Vance isn’t more hawkish than his senior partner or viewed as pushing for war behind the scenes.  When Vance endorsed…

David Hogg may be about to lose his vice chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, but he may be emblematic of his party’s future.  One reason some in the DNC went Hogg wild in the first place was the youthful progressive activist’s involvement in a $20 million initiative to back younger primary challengers against Democratic…

During President Donald Trump’s first term, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was often seen as a close ally of the White House. Now, he may not even get close to the White House picnic. “I think I’m the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic,” Paul…

In the days since the anti-ICE riots pushed President Donald Trump’s feud with Elon Musk off the front page, there have been growing signs of tension between populist and libertarian elements of the Republican Party.  The rift has largely been over the so-called one big, beautiful bill, a reconciliation legislative package that narrowly passed the…