Marc Thiessen
The Archive
Mueller should have just kept his mouth shut
In his news conference Wednesday, special counsel Robert Mueller explained why he wouldn’t testify before Congress. “Any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report,” he said, adding:...
Democrats' destructive -- and phony -- impeachment ploy
A Harvard-Harris poll finds that 65 percent of Americans say Congress shouldn’t begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Sixty percent agree with Attorney General William Barr that “the facts and...
Trump’s doing great on Iran but he still needs a plan
President Trump’s Iran policy appears to be seesawing between diplomacy and belligerence. One day Trump tweets, “I’m sure that Iran will want to talk soon.” The next he warns that...
Why the left will never stop gunning for Joe Biden
The left is starting to take aim at Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. At a conference last week, liberal activists repeatedly booed when told that Biden wanted to find “middle ground”...
An American museum, feeding America-hate abroad
BILBAO, SPAIN -- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a masterpiece of American architecture, a swirl of curved configurations crafted out of sheets of titanium by Frank Gehry. But step inside...
Moving to impeach Trump would only make him stronger
President Trump has called the Mueller investigation a “witch hunt” nearly 200 times on social media. Well, the special counsel concluded he wasn’t a witch. After carefully scrutinizing links between...
The abortion exposé the left couldn’t silence
They gave the movie an “R” rating, which meant the trailer could only run before “R”-rated movies, and no one younger than 17 could see it without a parent’s permission....
Don't give your bishop a dime of charity
On Ash Wednesday, the holy season of Lent began — and so did the annual fundraising drives by many of the nation’s Catholic bishops. Don’t give them a dime. Last...
How Trump can still get his Wall
It’s official. We just had the longest government shutdown in history over absolutely nothing. Democrats have agreed to fund $1.375 billion for 55 miles of physical barrier along the border,...
Leaving Afghanistan and Syria is a mistake we'll regret
"Great nations do not fight endless wars,” President Trump declared in his State of the Union Address. It was a line that could have been delivered by President Barack Obama,...
Trump just showed how he can recapture the center
With Democrats embracing neo-socialist policies to eliminate private health insurance and fossil fuels, America’s political center is up for grabs. In his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, President...
Democrats are now the ‘No Deal’ party
Last week, Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia offered President Trump some advice on how to end the current border wall standoff. “Always try to find a solution in which...
This is the stupidest government shutdown ever
Barring some miraculous breakthrough, on Saturday the current government shutdown will become the longest in American history. But it has already hit another historic milestone: It is, by far and...
The 10 best things Trump did in 2018
In his second year in office, the list of extraordinary things President Trump has done, for good and ill, continued to grow. Today, I offer my annual list of the...
Let’s make sure ISIS fighters stay locked up – even after our Syria pullout
President Trump’s decision to withdraw all US forces from Syria is already having unintended consequences. The American departure could lead to the release of 1,100 Islamic State fighters now held...
‘Made-to-order people’: Death blow to the American Dream
A Chinese scientist’s claim to have created the first genetically edited babies has evoked widespread condemnation from the scientific community. But here’s a larger question: Should we be doing this...
Here's what Trump should learn from the 2018 midterm elections
President Trump did defy history in the 2018 midterm elections. While his predecessor, Barack Obama, lost 63 House seats and six Senate seats in his first midterms, Trump held the...
Why Trump may be the most honest president ever
Donald Trump may be remembered as the most honest president in modern American history. Don’t get me wrong, Trump lies all the time. He said he “enacted the biggest tax...
How Democrats left America naked before North Korea's nukes
With last weekend’s surprise nuclear test, North Korea has reached the final stage of its crash course to develop thermonuclear weapons that can reach and destroy US cities. So why...
The next target for terror: attacks on trains
The terrorist attack in Barcelona follows a pattern that has left more than 100 people dead and hundreds more injured in Nice, Berlin, London, Stockholm and Ohio State University —...