Dick Polman

Have you ever heard two alley cats fighting, because one strayed onto the other’s turf? Welcome to the Mitt and Jeb contest. ...

It’s a tad early in Mitch McConnell’s Senate reign to be labeling him a laughingstock. And yet, this week, he did utter ...

The terrorist massacre in Paris was a fundamental assault on freedom of expression. Everyone who thinks freely, writes freely, draws free ...

A noteworthy event occurred on the last day of 2014. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, on his way out of the door, ...

Mike Huckabee’s decision to explore ...

Before we hurtle into the 24/7 politics of 2015 – the next news cycle will surely begin and end within the span of this paragraph — l ...

In the wake of Mario Cuomo’s death, the chattersphere has been filled with heartfelt paens to the man’s fabled eloquence R ...

  Happy 2015 to the National Interest community, denizens and passersby alike. The year we’ve just completed was dreadf ...

Ring out the old year by taking the 2014 Crazy Quiz! No fair Googling or peeking at the answers! 1. Who said, ...

  We interrupt this slow-news holiday week for a bulletin about bad Republican behavior. You know how the white-domina ...

  In the midst of this frenetic holiday whirl, I’m flagging the news on the fly. Yesterday, I had just enough time to b ...

 Granted, the competition was fierce. But the 2014 statutette for Top Congressional Sleazebag clearly belongs to Michael Grimm. ...