Peggy Noonan

Now that the Democrats dominate the U.S. Senate, the junior senator from New York is poised to achieve a new and rather sudden prominence. Hillary Clinton is not only her party’s acknowledged expert on health care legislation, she has taken to referring to her tenure as first lady in a way that suggests she feels […]

We had a wonderful weekend, hiking, barbecuing, visiting friends, snapping a friendly salute to the flag as it went by on TV or the street so our children would see and absorb the information that we honor the flag in our family, we note the parade that remembers the men and women who have fought […]

I am about to take a month’s leave to work on a book and thought I’d say goodbye with a few of the things I’ve been thinking about, and experiencing. I’ve been in California. I love California and feel that somewhere in my heart I am a forty-niner; I come here and want to live […]

This was going to be about the first 100 days of the Bush administration, which will be marked a week from Monday. But I did that column a few weeks ago and haven’t changed my mind. I said then it seems President Bush is doing well, very well. He still is. There are all sorts […]

They were eyeball to eyeball and both blinked. China will send the American crew members back, and the U.S. is sorry a Chinese pilot died and that our plane landed on Chinese soil without permission. Of all the commentary and chatter that followed the president’s announcement, perhaps the best summation came from a father of […]

Dan Rather is 69 years old, the anchor of “CBS Evening News” for the past 20 years, probably one of the most famous men in America and a political liberal. He is in trouble this week after a front-page story in the Washington Post reported that he recently appeared at a Democratic Party fund-raiser in […]

I have been thinking the past few weeks, as I’ve watched the Democrats attack President Bush’s tax-cut plan as deeply flawed because it benefits the rich and was developed in fact only to benefit the rich, more specifically to benefit rich Republicans and their big-business friends, that this is an odd and an old tic […]

Sixty-two days into his presidency, and 40 days before everyone talks about and writes about his First Hundred Days, some thoughts on George W. Bush and how he’s doing. The great question from those who had not supported him, which is to say from half the country, was: Is he up to the job? The […]

After I left my speechwriting job in Ronald Reagan’s White House 15 years ago, I stayed home, had a baby and wrote. Sometimes I’d run into Washington people I didn’t see anymore and they’d ask, “What are you doing now?” I’d say, with hopeful pride, “I’m writing a book.” They would nod and get the […]

This is the way it’s supposed to be, with division sharp, clear and meaningful. There are two parties, and each believes in different things. The Democrats don’t want to cut federal taxes. They have their reasons. The Republicans want to cut taxes. They have their reasons too. Yesterday in the House they held a vote […]