Politics

Socialism has destroyed Venezuela's energy industry, which cut off one of the country's primary revenue sources. For some reason, U.S. democratic socialists think that's a good model. 

“He didn’t have much choice,” said Institute for Policy Innovation innovator Merrill Matthews. “He faced nonstop negative coverage from the mainstream press and Democrats and decided to cut his losses. A prudent move.”

To win the 2020 election, Democrats will have to overcome two major obstacles: history and their lurch to the political left. They cannot change the first obstacle, and they seemingly don’t want to change the second.

Warren seems to be chasing the progressive movement rather than leading it.

Why then do people leaving "Blue" states bring their Blue state politics with them to a state offering a less-expensive lifestyle?

French President Macron is shocked his constituents don't want to pay higher taxes so he can claim to be a clean-energy leader. Are U.S. progressives listening?

Two years after now-President Donald Trump accused him of a connection to the 1963 Dallas assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the father of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is somehow magnanimously able to laugh about it. “Oh, yes — I shot J.R.!” he said jokingly in a conversation at a recent Dallas luncheon hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation.

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who just won re-election to a third term in the Senate, recently responded to a question from the Cincinnati Enquirer about a presidential bid, “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t considering it.” 

"Democrats will have a record number of candidates in 2020,” said Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia and author of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, at a Dallas luncheon at the Renaissance Hotel hosted by IPI, a public policy think tank based in Irving.