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In a strong piece explaining why Mayor Bill deBlasio should resign now, Republican candidate for Mayor, Michel Faulkner, outlines how best to serve NYC. When Bill de Blasio announced his candidacy for mayor, he pledged to change City Hall from one that “too often has catered to the interests of …

Color me disgusted after yesterday’s primary results added momentum to the Trump train, headed to Cleveland. I don’t know what it is about Republican voters this year but it’s deeply troubling. That goes double for Americans generally as Bernie Sanders’ campaign continues to roll on despite little chance of replacing …

In the wake of Donald Trump’s compelling New York primary win, a friend of mine exulted at the profound silence from opponents of Donald Trump on Facebook. It signals, he proclaimed, the collapse of opposition to the New York real estate magnate by people like me, so-called “RINOs” — though it should be noted that he, himself, lives in …

I asked a friend of mine, a die hard Trump supporter, how he could justify picking a guy like Trump, considering the man’s track record both recent and over the past decades as a businessman in New York. My friend replied that he was better than the status quo, better …

He’s finally done it. Paul Ryan has bowed out with Shermanesque assurance: “I do not want, nor will I accept, the Republican nomination. Count me out: I simply believe that if you want to be the nominee for our party to be the President, you should actually run for it. …

I will begin by saying I don’t personally support Trump and I hope that he loses in a contested convention. However the insanity that is coming from the left (and some on the right) related to Donald Trump is, just that, insanity. Back in the early to mid-80s some political …

Has anyone noticed how everyone around Donald Trump, whether working for him or just allying themselves to him, invariably refers to him with the deferential “Mister Trump”? Even journalists do it. Understandable, of course, if they’re speaking to him in an interview setting but a little strange, actually, when reporting …

Maybe it’s too early for hosannas after Donald Trump’s decisive loss in Wisconsin last night to Ted Cruz. After all, the stars were in alignment for the Texan while Trump had spent a week saying his usual stupid stuff only this time it hurt him (which was a surprise, probably …

Writing for National Review, Jim Geraghty isn’t sanguine about the prospects for a Paul Ryan candidacy should the House Speaker actually be drafted by Republican convention delegates this summer in lieu of the likely losers now vying for the Republican party’s nomination. Still, Geraghty points out that “A well-wired Democrat …

Political parties have historically been the institution by which candidates are produced in our history, even if not a part of the founders’ original conception. How else do we put together candidates for office except through large groups of voters forming coalitions? But coalitions mean different groups with differing interests. …