Henry Olsen

Despite the booming national economy, many of the Midwestern areas that put President Trump in the White House haven’t benefited much, if at all, and it might cost him a second term.

Conservative Brian Hagedorn’s apparent narrow victory in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race underscores how close the Badger State is likely to be in 2020 — and how important it is to President Trump’s reelection chances.

Democrats might contemplate whether they would rather see special counsel Robert Mueller’s full, unredacted report or whether they would prefer that the prosecutions he initiated proceed as planned, without the additional wildcard of the unredacted report thrown into the mix.

Making Republicans the party of health care means putting the commitment to health care and financial security first and the goal of cost control second.

Old ideas of nationalism and traditional religion are not going away; any attempt to create a new Israel or United States needs to accommodate adherents of the old orthodoxies. Fail to heed these lessons, and a country descends into tribalism, recrimination and decline.

Our moralizing modern-day aristocrats are at odds with American justice.

It is in conservatism’s long-term interest to trade the electoral college for a major reform of our voting system that works for both parties.

Many deeply religious Americans feel surrounded and are desperate for some route of escape. That’s why they reluctantly backed President Trump. Liberals who want to confront autocracy abroad would be wise to find an accommodation with their adversaries at home before it’s too late.

Democratic analysts look at President Trump’s low job approval ratings in swing Midwestern states and are confident they can retake them. New polling data show how misplaced that sanguine calm is.

President Trump must not only vehemently condemn the New Zealand mosque attack; he must also actively work to protect Muslim Americans and tell the world that an attack on Muslim immigrants is an attack on everything he and our country stand for.

The key failure of our current federal budgetary system is that it does nothing to encourage the cooperation across parties and branches of government. Any reform needs to address this dramatic shortcoming.

The world leader many Americans wish they had, Canada’s Justin Trudeau, is in political trouble. And yet, even in the midst of scandal, Trudeau offers a valuable lesson for the political left in the United States.