William Kristol

The party can do better.

Liberalism’s fate rests on our new president’s shoulders. If Mr. Obama governs successfully, we’re in a new political era. If not, the country will be open to new conservative alternatives.

Like President Bush before him, Barack Obama knows he, too, will be a war president and that the decisions he makes as commander in chief will be his most consequential.

It seems that we can expect more continuity than change from President-elect Barack Obama’s foreign policy.

An Israeli success in Gaza would be a victory in the war on terror — and in the broader struggle for the future of the Middle East.

I look forward to Barack Obama’s inauguration with a surprising degree of hope and good cheer.

In admiration of straight talkers, let’s give credit to the nation’s most unpopular Republican, Dick Cheney, and the nation’s most unpopular Democrat, Rod Blagojevich.

An undeserved disdain, even casual contempt, seems to characterize the attitude of the political and media elites toward the American auto industry.