Chris Stirewalt

Chris Stirewalt is a contributing editor at The Dispatch, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the politics editor for NewsNation, co-host of the Ink Stained Wretches podcast, and author of Broken News, a book on media and politics.

Chris Stirewalt

A Problem With Presidents, Not the Presidency 

The biggest problems these days are not with the office, but its occupants.

Stirewaltisms: The Problem of Policy in Politics

What happens when politicians decide that getting power to do the right things makes it necessary to say the wrong things.

Love’s In Need of Love Today

Love can be virtuous, but also used for evil ends.

Stirewaltisms: An Experiment in Negative Partisanship

If nothing else, the State of the Union highlighted how our awful politics got that way.

Biden’s State of the Union Misery Index

Potential primary challengers will be looking for weakness.

Stirewaltisms: Iowa Down, But Not Out

Three years ago today the political world watched in horror as the Iowa Democratic Caucuses turned into a high-tech wreck.

Trump Tries Slogging It Out

He’s lost his crucial advantage from 2016—the ability to surprise.

Stirewaltisms: Aaaaaand They’re Off …

Did you really think 2024 would get off to a slow start?

Post-Roe Reality Sets In

How abortion will affect the presidential primaries.

Stirewaltisms: In Favor of Quitting Loud

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is stepping down.