OpinionDigest

Many on the left are missing fear as one of the key motivators this election cycle. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

National Security

Fearful Americans want law and order

Lisa Boothe · July 27, 2016 4:03 am

With Fed Chair Janet Yellen constantly putting off rate increases, no one can be sure what will happen in the fall — even if the jobs reports for July and August are as rosy as the 287,000 June jobs increase. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Why the Fed should raise rates

Diana Furchtgott-Roth · July 25, 2016 4:03 am

Just as these terrorist outrages will push French voters to Marine Le Pen, so her rise will push more French Muslims to radicalism. (AP Photo)

France: The civil war has begun

Dan Hannan · July 25, 2016 4:00 am

The message on the final day of the Republican National Convention was that the culture wars are over. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

What’s ‘making America one again’ about?

Michael Barone · July 24, 2016 9:00 pm

Disruptive. That's a good word to describe Donald Trump's presidential candidacy. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Is America ready for a disruptive president?

Michael Barone · July 22, 2016 4:29 am

The best recent apples to apples comparison is the tough situations Ronald Reagan and President Obama faced. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The country would be better off with a Republican president

Peter Morici · July 22, 2016 4:03 am

This certainly doesn't set the Fourth Amendment aflame as some have suggested. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP)

Utah v. Strieff doesn’t give cops license to kill the Fourth

Greg Glod · July 22, 2016 4:02 am

People will find divisive things in Donald Trump's speech, and it certainly won't unite all the Republicans who are struggling to back him. But it did seem to strike a more optimistic tone compared to most of his campaign. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Is this the start of a new Donald Trump?

Jason Russell · July 22, 2016 3:37 am

No one will know whether Cruz won or lost until a few years from now. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: Ted Cruz’s gamble

Byron York · July 21, 2016 4:30 am

Rather than being a step back, the TPP is a forward-looking effort to redress imbalances and to establish rules of the trade routes for a substantial portion of the global economy. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Good for America, good for the world

Peter Roff · July 21, 2016 4:03 am

Reasons for pro-lifers to be upbeat after Hellerstedt

Reasons for pro-lifers to be upbeat after Hellerstedt

Washington Examiner · July 21, 2016 4:01 am

Public school establishment should answer for D.C. hypocrisy

Public school establishment should answer for D.C. hypocrisy

Brian Robertson · July 19, 2016 4:04 am