George Will: Ocasio-Cortez could learn a thing or two about socialism from Trump
Now there is a Republican president who can teach Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a thing or two about the essence of socialism.
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Will: Our “America first” president put America last in Helsinki
WASHINGTON -- America's child president had a playdate with a KGB alumnus, who surely enjoyed providing daycare. It was a useful, because illuminating, event: Now we shall see how many...
Will: Don’t fix baseball, even if it may be broken
Today's all-or-nothing baseball is too one-dimensional. There are too many strikeouts -- for the first time in history, more than hits, a lot more.
Will: Is Trump correct that Mueller’s appointment was unconstitutional?
If Mueller's appointment is challenged, and the case gets to the court, and five justices reason as Calabresi does, Mueller's subpoenas, indictments and other acts will be null and void.
Will: What might a socialist American government do?
At the risk of spoiling the fun -- the left's anticipation of the sunny uplands of social justice; the right's frisson of foreboding -- consider what might a socialist American...
Will: For the first time, conservatives might thank God for Kennedy
It is likely that Kennedy's retirement, by focusing attention on the Supreme Court and hence on the Senate, will redound to the benefit of Republicans this autumn.
Will: Can Bill Weld restore conservatism?
If the Libertarian Party is willing, 2020's politics could have an ingredient recently missing from presidential politics: fun.
Will: Congress suffers arthritic knees from genuflecting to presidential power
Invocations of the "national interest" would not legitimate a president's decision to "pick" a major preventive war on the Korean peninsula.
Will: Does North Korea wish to become Upper Volta without rockets — or vodka?
Back when the Soviet Union had a first-rate nuclear arsenal but a ramshackle third-world economy the nation was disparaged as "Upper Volta with rockets."
Will: Mitch McConnell is winning the long game
Three decades from now, McConnell will be shaping the nation through judges who today are in their 40s, some of whom might become Neil Gorsuch's colleagues. This is the long...