Michael Medved

The array of Republican challengers battling Donald Trump for GOP leadership offers an unprecedented display of diversity.

Third-party candidates have drawn millions of votes and raised billions of dollars, but their chances of winning the White House in 2024 are non-existent.

None of President Joe Biden's handlers have devised a magical means for the aging chief to present himself as more youthful in the months ahead.

The cruel and sadistic killing of Tyre Nichols undermined assumptions about how greater diversity could enhance community relations.

A growing segment of the population feels so disgusted with the USA that they express a desire to leave altogether.

To some extent, President Trump seems insistent on imitating Joe Biden in trying to exploit nostalgic instincts.

President Joe Biden will benefit from one all-but-certain result of the midterm elections this November.

During the last 40 years, the number of annual abortions has declined, steadily and substantially.

Not every politician can be a Lincoln, either in terms of character or rhetorical gifts, but certainly today's officeholders could all do better than the squalid, accusatory attacks and the hyper-partisan demagoguery that currently poison the national discourse.

The mounting hysteria over a purported plague of "book banning" stems in part from the common confusion between government sponsorship and government censorship.

In an era when political partisans view their opponents as implacable enemies, Vladimir Putin has shown the United States what a real enemy looks like.

In a totally unexpected turn of events, a message delivered during this year's State of the Union rituals revealed a clear path to future political victories—for Republicans.

In weighing a nominee's qualifications for the United States Supreme Court, should it count as a negative factor that she graduated from an elite law school?

Our polarizing, paralyzing national feud over how and what we teach our children, could use a time-out for some personal perspective on our own educational experiences.

For decades, left-leaning legal scholars have worshipped the idea of an all-powerful Supreme Court, imbued with incontestable, non-negotiable and altogether incomparable power.

Thanksgiving feasts should make a significant comeback in 2021, after almost two years of restrictions and distractions that undermined the grateful spirit of the holiday.

The American people sensed, instinctively, that we had missed a great opportunity when Colin Powell declined to seek the presidency a quarter century ago.

Looking ahead to the presidential election of 2024, it's much easier to compile a list of possible contenders who can't win the grand prize than it is to name those who could.

The toxic aspect of today's polarization is that the two sides question each other's fundamental decency, not just their governing agendas.

None of our 46 presidents deserves the ultimate crown of ignominious wickedness because America itself has never embraced the cause of oppression or corruption.

The more I learn about the 2020 Census, the more I feel convinced that the federal government has cheated my one-year-old grandson of his identity.

With the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack rapidly approaching, it's worth considering why America has responded so differently to a crisis that has left more than 600,000 dead.

The agony of the ongoing COVID crisis didn't produce our present polarization as much as it exposed it.

What both sides should demand instead is expansion, not restriction, of the history we teach—with a deeper, richer perspective on our republic's place in the world.

This Fourth of July provided some unexpected perspective on the ferocious fights currently raging over the teaching of American history and values.

Trump is a malignancy that threatens the survival of the party, and I don't see a future for the party unless he gives up his presidential ambitions.

Juneteenth can be an appropriate and meaningful supplement to observance of July 4th, without replacing the parades, barbecues and fireworks that have illuminated American summers for more than two centuries.

Americans resist the currently fashionable notion that this brutal institution represents the essence of our history and the oppressive basis of the nation's power and prosperity.

If racist bias permeates every aspect of our society, then doesn't it stand to reason that subjective factors—including grades—would be even more profoundly influenced by such bigotry than test results?

What's the most dangerous myth in contemporary politics—a fable that damages both major parties while powerfully promoting polarization?