Articles by Robert Zaller

Be careful whom you honor.  The Swedish Academy gave its Nobel Prize in Literature to Gunter Grass, at the time generally recognized as Germany’s most…

“Socialism” (or its even scarier cognate, communism) was for a good part of the 20th century the equivalent of what COVID has become for us,…

Spring has arrived, and a responsible federal government is back in Washington, D.C. We’d all like to get back to business, namely dealing with a…

The story of party politics in America is a tangled one, but that of the past 50 years is particularly instructive. It has been during…

The Donald is back. He wowed them at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando—normally a sedate affair as such things go, but this time…

The official American death toll from COVID-19 has now passed 500,000, with the last 100,000 in the past month. That is, by an unchallengeable margin,…

If there was ever a lose-lose proposition in American politics, it was the second impeachment of Donald Trump. It had to happen and it had…

Joe Biden has promised to produce results for a country that, as he himself says, is at war. He surely had a lot of problems…

The good news about the COVID-19 pandemic is that vaccines that appear to be safe and thus far effective were developed in record time, and…

It’s not, alas, true that democracy has “prevailed” wit Unfortunately, it’s untrue to say that democracy has “prevailed” with the inauguration of President Joe Biden,…