Out of power and out of ideas. That’s where Democrats are today, and that’s where they were in the late 1980s when Al From co-founded the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), which brought Democrats back from the dead on the strength of “New Democrat” ideas, sending Bill Clinton to the White House. Now the party is […]

Everybody wants to address the humanitarian crisis in Syria, but how? Democrats want to bring in more Syrian refugees and resettle them in U.S. communities. Republicans say refugees pose a security risk. Democrats say they can be fully vetted. Republicans say the process can’t be trusted, and terrorists will get in alongside innocent civilians. Listening to […]

Over one hour and twenty-six minutes, the longest press conference of his eight years, President Obama tried to tamp down some of the harsher rhetoric over Russian involvement in electing his successor. Asked whether he was prepared to call out Russian President Vladimir Putin by name, he responded with a lengthy exposition of how the […]