Honest Graft

This week's Republican convention did an especially efficient job of encapsulating the current state of the party after four years of D...

The traditional campaign trail has become one of the political casualties of the COVID-19 epidemic. Joe Biden ceased holding large public ev...

The primary purpose of a national convention—now that the actual selection of the nominee is completed beforehand by primary voters—is to fo...

In the daydreams of most Washington Republicans and nearly the entire political press corps, Donald Trump is stopped short of a majority on ...

Over the past few weeks, several prominent leaders of the wilting faction of Republican Regulars—including Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Lindse...

Anecdotally, it seems as if some of the fight has gone out of the Never Trump movement this week. Anti-Trump Republicans have continued to b...

The more subdued Donald Trump who showed up at last Thursday's debate was seemingly eager to coast on his front-runner status without r...

The Republican debate in Miami Thursday night surprised almost everyone with its unexpectedly calm tone and focus on policy, to the extent t...

I usually write a recap post after presidential debates, but last night's Clinton-Sanders face-off in Flint left me devoid of inspiratio...

Thanks to Donald Trump, we've entered a moment in American party politics in which actors and observers alike have lost their collective...