Tag: common ground

Are We Headed for a Civil War?

Commentary I wrote a column in 2011, as the presidential politics of the upcoming year were starting to unfold, with the headline “Why 2012 Looks a Lot Like 1860.” The deep fracturing of the American electorate—remember the Tea Party?—leading up to the 2012 presidential election was starting to look like what happened in the presidential…


Beckel and Me: An Odd Couple

Commentary As often happens among the political class in Washington, we met on television debating each other. I liked him immediately, despite our political and even religious differences. Bob Beckel and I became friends and eventually more than friends. Twenty years ago, after debating a long-forgotten subject on Fox News Channel, we came back to…