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2023 is concluding with a polling whimper for President Joe Biden. A seriesof newpollsshow Biden’s favorability is plummeting. His polling on the economy is especially bad. According to a new Pew Research poll, only 36% of respondents say Biden “make[s] good decisions about economic policy.”A new Fox News surveyreveals just …

Welcome to “Morning Glory.” Twice a week I’ll write here about the issues driving the 2024 election, issues that will come up on my morning radio show. (If you miss the live broadcast, which is 6 to 9 a.m. Eastern across 475 platforms, a podcast version appears later in the …

As an outsider, Herman Cain’s strategy of campaigning all over the country, promoting his book and avoiding retail politics makes absolute sense. — That’s what has appealed to Republican voters in the last several months as we’ve seen Cain’s popularity soar. There was an authenticity, a sense of optimism and …

“Make no mistake about it. These women are warriors.” The man who shared these words was among the most tested special operations leaders of the post-9/11 wars, Lt. Gen. John Mulholland. And he was speaking of Ashley White-Stumpf and her sisters-in-arms who were part of an all-women team recruited, trained …

Is this deja vu all over again? Already? An unpopular war. A president hunkered down and hounded from office. Senators and Congressman calling for investigations into CIA “abuses.” Intelligence community secrets exposed, sources and methods revealed. American spy networks around the world dry up. American security compromised. Make no mistake, …

Set your clocks and start your engines. We’re counting down for a conflict in the Middle East. It’s not clear how it will start, or what will happen once it does. But it’s likely to begin in that narrow window of time between three countdown clocks sitting on Israeli Prime …

Arms control agreements are not usually struck between friendly nations. They are either signed by defeated or frightened states, or by enemies who view them as beneficial to their national security despite ongoing enmity. South Africa gave up its secret nuclear weapons program only after its apartheid government was ousted. …

One of the best-loved stories about the squeeze on middle-class incomes in the U.S. concerns the long-term divergence between wages and productivity. This goes as follows: Wages have stagnated for decades even as output and profits kept going up. Owners of capital grabbed all the gains. For those who tell …

While in seminary, I ran across the author Henri Nouwen, who articulated the tension—or paradox—of faith as well as anyone I have read. His answer, unlike most I have heard, does not whitewash the messiness of life or explain away the mystery of God. Rather, Nouwen wrote that an essential …

On the surface President Obama’s Iran speech Wednesday at American University seems a perfect sequel to President Kennedy’s speech on a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union more than 50 years ago on the same turf. Both men are young, dynamic, good looking, smooth talking leaders seemingly determined …