Michael McKenna

Congress fears voters more than Trump

Everything in this mortal world is subject to limits, even seemingly unstoppable forces like President Trump.

May 23, 2026

Trump risks GOP majorities by hunting Republican heretics

On Tuesday, Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican who lost his effort to be reelected to another term in the Senate as a result of President Trump's opposition, returned the favor.

May 20, 2026

U.S. must get serious about winning the war with China

The good news is that the communists who run the slaving, genocidal regime in China are, like collectivists everywhere, pretty straightforward and transparent with respect to their goals.

May 17, 2026

AI backlash ignores the history of invention

I am sure the first person to conclude that it was much easier to build fences around the animals humans wanted to eat than go hunting was attacked by peers who relied on the hunting economy.

May 13, 2026

Marco Rubio sums up American greatness in under 200 words

Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the hardest-working man in the current administration, took a turn as press secretary and fielded reporters' questions on all kinds of topics.

May 10, 2026

A few 2026 midterm predictions

We are about six months away from the midterm elections, and it is way too early to make any coherent predictions.

May 6, 2026

The legacy of Kent State

On May 4, 1970, a company of Ohio National Guardsmen fired 67 bullets into a crowd of protesting students at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine.

May 3, 2026

Political propaganda erodes independent thought on left and right

I am starting to think that the constant need to defend the increasingly absurd political stances of one's allies is making people mentally less agile.

April 29, 2026

Gerrymandering arms race threatens foundation of American democracy

Before we consider the bonfire into which Democrats in Virginia are throwing the republican values of American governance, it might be worth reminding everyone how we got here.

April 26, 2026

What the AI fight’s really about

The artificial intelligence fight isn't about cost or electricity. It's about who controls the future.

April 22, 2026

Amid division and uncertainty, Americans celebrate Independence Day with quiet confidence

A definite vibe indicates that the semiquincentennial is not likely to be a wild celebration of all that is good in the United States.

April 19, 2026

Pope Leo XIV and Trump clash as Catholic faith pushes back against culture and government power

It has been a good week or so for Roman Catholicism.

April 15, 2026

Virginia Democrats stealing Republican residents’ access to representative government

For the past few years, this column has argued that the Civil War -- had it been only or even mostly about slavery -- was unnecessary, the product of incompetent leadership.

April 12, 2026

Whatever happened to American inventions?

The Artemis II trip around the moon has generated a lot of enthusiasm in the past few days.

April 8, 2026

College decisions matter less than families think despite rising costs and anxiety

I'd like to focus on the real crisis absorbing the attention of millions of households this spring: Where will the children go to college?

April 5, 2026

Madman or son of God: Easter calls a busy world back to the question of Jesus

Starting Friday, the world's 2.5 billion Christians will celebrate the torture, execution and resurrection of an obscure itinerant preacher.

April 1, 2026

Democrats only offer taxes and big government if they take control of the House

Partisans on both sides are anticipating the November elections, although for very different reasons.

March 29, 2026

Trump’s crime initiative, Memphis homicides and Tito Porter

President Trump went to Memphis, Tennessee, at the top of this week to talk about law and order and crime and punishment.

March 25, 2026

White House’s ‘banger memes’ trivialize Iran war

George Orwell was rude enough to point out the truth about political rhetoric: "Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable."

March 23, 2026

From Paul Ehrlich to today’s alarmists, doom predictions keep missing reality

At the beginning of this week there were predictions of a weather-borne apocalypse, replete with torrential rains, ferocious winds and tornadoes.

March 18, 2026