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.
The Idiotic Astrophysics of Umbrage
A blazing sun of facileness and imbecility burns brightly at the center of our political solar system.
RFK Jr. Turns Left
His choice of running mate shows the independent’s growing danger to Democrats.
About Those Empty Pews
The number of Americans going to church may be declining, but it’s still significant.
GOP Meets Limits to Donald Trump’s Victimhood Appeal
Trump and Republicans are failing to distinguish most voters from MAGA die-hards.
Defund the Speech Police
Both nationalists and progressives keep running into the wall that is the First Amendment.
What’s a Non-White Voter Anyway?
Lumping together every person not of wholly European ancestry into one group is not particularly edifying.
Republicans Try to Undo Trump’s Damage on Mail-In Votes
The former president is his own worst enemy, but having a real campaign organization behind him can mitigate the damage.
A Shortcut Through the Long Campaign
We don’t have to get too wrapped up in the parties’ narratives at this point.
Kooks, Real and Imagined
What happened when the GOP fell in love with the idea of a permanent revolution.