Ponnuru: Repealing the Obamacare mandate now makes sense
Repealing the Affordable Care Act's mandate, even as a stand-alone measure, now seems to me to pose fewer dangers than it once did.
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Ponnuru: Al Franken’s calculated strategy of non-denial
Sen. Al Franken has a strategy for getting out of his current mess. You can see it in action in an interview he gave this week to Esme Murphy, a...
Ponnuru: Alabama Senate race leaves anti-abortionists no choice
The Alabama voter who seeks a candidate with anti-abortion views and at least average moral rectitude will find nobody on the Senate ballot who meets that description.
Ponnuru: Never-Trump Republicans never agree about anything else
President Donald Trump still has vocal Republican detractors, but there aren鈥檛 a lot of them -- and this minority of Republicans is divided.
Ponnuru: Why Democrats’ race-baiting often backfires
In the Virginia governor's race, liberal attacks against the Republican, Ed Gillespie, ignore a lot of political history from before 2016. Pre-Trump Republicans had often run hardball campaigns based on...
Ponnuru: Mass pardons would escalate risks for Trump
President Trump should restrain himself from issuing pardons in the Russia investigation, even if his anger over special prosecutor Robert Mueller鈥檚 investigation tempts him to make them.
Ponnuru: Trump is losing his war on the liberal media
Trump's media bashing isn't helping him get legislation passed. It's not helping get conservative viewpoints more broadly accepted. But it is, in its limited way, working for him, and he...
Ponnuru: Seven reasons Republicans couldn’t end Obamacare
Republicans' failure to repeal Obamacare, or even make major changes to it, feels overdetermined. They came into the debate holding a weak hand, and they played it badly.
Ponnuru: It’s past time to bury the Confederacy for good
The South has and deserves its pride, but it ought not center it on the most shameful moment in its history. The statues and the flags should come down.
Ponnuru: Scaramucci’s foul rant wasn’t the most disturbing part of New Yorker interview
Obscene language wasn't the worst thing about the Anthony Scaramucci New Yorker interview. It wasn't even one of the worst four things about it.