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Trump Demands Personal Midterm Ads as Charen Calls Him 'Mad King' and GOP Strategists Favour Targeted Spending

US President Donald Trump aims to make the 2026 midterms a referendum on his presidency, sparking debate among Republicans about the potential risks and benefits of this strategy.

International Business Times UK · Aug 27

You want postal police on delivery beats? No way.

What makes you believe that putting federal police in local communities where they don’t know anybody, can’t enforce local laws and have a narrowly focused goal of protecting only a few persons will help?

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 20, 2023

Checks and balances won’t save us from Trump

If the Republican Party were not such a shell, it would have shut down Trump’s dangerous lies about the stolen election on Nov. 3, 2020, Mona Charen writes. Instead, leading officeholders “humored” him, or worse, reinforced his lies.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 17, 2023

Revamp presidential debates to bring back civility

Opinion writer Mona Charen is absolutely right about getting rid of audiences that encourage candidates to cater to the lowest common denominator.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 29, 2023

No, Joe Biden’s not too old to run again

Joe Biden is better at 80 than at 50, Mona Charen writes. The numbers show that, if he wins, he’s likely to make it through a second term as president just fine.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 18, 2023

Tim Scott makes a hollow pitch for Republican votes

I used to think Republicans lavished so much love on Black candidates because they were keen to prove that they harbored no racism, Mona Charen writes. But the mask has slipped so often since Trump. Scott claims, “I’m the candidate the left fears the most.” Translation: I’m the Black candidate…

Chicago Sun-Times · May 25, 2023

RFK Jr. says he’s running for president, and could draw Republican support

Perhaps Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t right in the head — but the fact that he appeals to millions of Americans, including Republicans, suggests he isn’t alone, Mona Charen writes.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 11, 2023

Wearing partisan blinders about Clarence Thomas at the Wall Street Journal

The Journal’s James Taranto accuses Mitt Romney and me of “piling on” about Thomas, but it’s really a confession of blinkered partisanship on the part of WSJ, Mona Charen writes.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 27, 2023

The news is making us sick

The American Psychological Association estimates that “media saturation overload” — or, more colorfully, “doomscrolling” — is damaging the mental health of many people.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 30, 2023

Americans are too lonely

We are immersed in various forms of psychological misery. Much of what ails our society arises from our poverty of human connections.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 24, 2023