Author Bryan Van Norden

1. Trump and the Republicans in office who support him are fiscally irresponsible. After just a couple of years of Republican control of the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives, the US deficit...

As a young man, I was primed, by both instinct and education, to become a conservative. My late father was chairman of the local Republican Party. I was raised on an intellectual diet of the Bible and the...

The University of California at Berkeley recently cancelled a scheduled talk by leading far-right speaker Milo Yiannopoulos after students rioted. The students were both wrong and foolish. Back in 1970...

We have been treated to two ugly Presidential debates and one ugly Vice-Presidential debate this election year.  However, there are three simple reforms that would substantially improve the quality of...

Many of you are eligible to vote for the first time in this election. I want to take a moment today to encourage you to vote and give you a quick, non-partisan introduction to Presidential elections. Martyrs...

Governor John Kasich is currently considered a plausible “moderate” Republican Presidential candidate if the GOP goes to a brokered convention. In fact, he has said that, “It’s going to be so much fun....

In which the Republican Majority Leader meets with reporters to clarify why Republicans refuse to perform their duty under the Constitution to hold hearings for a candidate nominated by a standing President.