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Littwin Columns

Littwin: Trump is right. This is a dark and frightening time in America.

Donald Trump is right. This is a dark and frightening time in America. How else to describe the moment in which thousands of Republican delegates...

Littwin: RNC Day Three – How Ted Cruz became the most reviled person in...

On the third night of the Republican convention, Ted Cruz did the impossible. He replaced Hillary Clinton as the most reviled person in the...

Littwin: RNC Day Two – Cory Gardner opts out of Trump’s coronation

I have to give Cory Gardner credit. When faced with a choice, he stood up — or actually ducked out, but still pretty much...

Littwin: RNC Day One – Nixonian rhetoric and a bit of chaos

Day One of the Republican National Convention was not so much about Making America Great Again as it was about the obvious corollary: America...
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Littwin: The terror of the Nice attack is a test

Photo Eric Gaillard/Reuters When you see Reuters photographer Eric Gaillard's photograph of the small body lying covered in the street, a child's doll at its...

Littwin: Are we a nation in the midst of crisis — or just an election...

The question after Dallas, after Baton Rouge, after Falcon Heights, is whether we are a nation in the midst of crisis or simply a...

Littwin: Summer of rage, summer of outrage

The temptation is to say that we've reached a breaking point. That the center cannot hold. That, as The New York Post irresponsibly splashed...

Littwin: On a bad day for Clinton, Trump still loses

FBI Director James Comey, whose reputation as a truth-teller was forever sealed when he served as deputy attorney general in the Bush administration, was...

Littwin: In Colorado, speechgoers got full-on Trump

There are two kinds of Trump speeches. There's the teleprompter, sort-of-on-message, actually-has-a-topic-line speech, and there's the unscripted, off-topic, meandering, no-message-whatsoever, let-Trump-be-Trump speech. If you watched...

Littwin: With Glenn’s win, it’s time to retire the Cory Gardner playbook

OK, now that self-declared Christian conservative constitutionalist Darryl Glenn is officially the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, it seems we can officially retire...
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