Ben Domenech

The playbook they’re running against Joe Rogan is obvious, recognizable, and requires new defensive weapons.

The Eppur si muove problem.

Sorkin’s classic put-downs are everything a smart lefty parent wishes they had said in the moment they started losing an argument about carbon offsets.

The importance of learning nothing and forgetting nothing.

If the Court lets pro-lifers down, it will put a definitive end to the question of whether the next nominee should be a judge or a politician with a record.

Culture is a kitchen table issue, just as much as health care bills and taxes, despite years of smug assurances otherwise from consultants and pundits.

Gruden’s forced resignation is a new level of cancel culture mission creep, and you should care about it, because it’s probably going to happen to you.

There is no line he would not cross, there was nowhere he would not go for a joke he believed in.

The first third of Joe Biden’s speech defending the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal was full of lies, and done in completely bad faith.

This moment demands basic core competence on how to govern and lead across multiple areas, and this administration apparently lacks nearly all of it.

For all the fractiousness about Afghanistan over the past twenty years, finally there is unity in this opinion: What a disaster.

Rumsfeld was a true American patriot but also the archetype of disaster in the republic in the modern era, an outstanding tactician and an overmatched strategist.

O’Brien inspired comedians through a dedication to crazy, wacky humor your dad didn’t get. He would rather make you laugh than make you clap.

Diminishing the culture war in this heated moment isn’t just anti-conservative; it has the priorities of the people completely backward.

In Biden’s speech, St. Augustine’s deep warning about misdirected unity in love of the wrong thing becomes the spiritual equivalent of “c’mon, man.”

Here comes the Mitch McConnell impeachment effort, as effective and well-thought as his filibuster defense effort.

Whether she sticks around or is rejected by a conference already fed up with her anti-incumbent donations, Cheney is now persona non grata.

The recriminations about the likely loss of two GOP incumbents in Georgia will ripple through Republican circles in a display of total acrimony.

The Speaker's instincts have atrophied. Her political gambits have failed. She’s been a source of one very public screw up after another.

This is going to be the Harris Administration with Joe Biden as a figurehead, and it’s a good representation of where the Democratic Party is today.