David Frum

Biden’s speech about anti-Semitism is a test of courage as well as compassion.

May not amount to much, actually

Donald Trump is not a rational choice for conservative Republicans.

It wasn’t just Putin who lost in the House vote on Ukraine aid.

The networks want their show, but to give the challenger equal status on a TV stage would be a dire normalization of his attempted coup.

Biden stands with America’s allies. Trump doesn’t.

When our daughter died suddenly, she left us with grief, memories—and Ringo.

If Donald Trump loses November’s election, it will be for one reason: He can’t help making it all about himself.

Mexico’s president gets to determine whether an immigration crisis dominates headlines in a U.S. election year.

Even the most youthful commanders in chief use them.

Will enough of Trump’s party finally be willing to stick up for Ukraine rather than follow his lead and bow to Russia?

The Republicans who won’t take yes for an answer

Despised as a racist by today’s left and a tyrant by today’s right, the 28th president championed a set of values that our politics sorely lack.

Congressional Republicans are blocking crucial aid to Israel and Ukraine out of sheer servility to Trump.

There’s a reason Democratic voters are rallying behind Joe Biden.

As GOP leaders get in line, the outlook for democracy looks grim—in Ukraine, and even in America.

As Maine throws him off the ballot, the president who betrayed democracy is now pleading for its protections.

They should take it.

Behind the GOP’s shifting excuses for abandoning Ukraine

The congressional opposition to the president’s funding request explained—as far as it can be

Progressives who once argued that free speech is violence now claim that violence is free speech.

If Donald Trump returns to the White House, he’d bring a better understanding of the system’s vulnerabilities, more willing enablers, and a more focused agenda of retaliation against his adversaries.

For Gavin Newsom, the TV exposure had a clear logic. But for the Florida governor, all that was apparent was his psychic need.

Keep the endowment, but spin off the university.

The president has a popularity problem. He needs to remind Americans who he isn’t.

A new far-left party now joins an older far right in threatening an enfeebled centrist consensus.

In fact, it can’t afford not to.

The requisite for Republican leadership is serving delusion—that Trump won in 2020, that the Republicans did not lose in 2022. Fail at that and you’re out.

The Constitution won’t disqualify Trump from running. The only real-world way of stopping him is through the ballot box.

If reelected, the former president would move to make his legal troubles disappear. Constitutional chaos and political mayhem would ensue.

Should it?

Candidates who do not speculate about war with Mexico may be perceived as weak.

The special counsel’s indictment offers party leaders their best escape from the loyalty trap yet—if they choose to take it.

Russia’s gambit to deter support for Ukraine by restricting energy supplies flopped—thanks to concerted action by European countries.

It was bad when the Twitter Spaces sound was off for the Florida governor. It was worse when the sound came on.

Special Counsel John Durham served up not an investigation, but an excuse for future partisan abuses.

The X factors of the 2024 presidential race

Britain is now paying the price for its decision to leave the European Union.

Republicans thought about running without Trump in 2024—but lost their nerve. They’re heading for electoral disaster again.

Now we know what the Manhattan prosecutors have. It’s not enough.