Chris Stirewalt

Chris Stirewalt is a contributing editor at The Dispatch, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the politics editor for NewsNation, co-host of the Ink Stained Wretches podcast, and author of Broken News, a book on media and politics.

Chris Stirewalt

About Those Empty Pews

The number of Americans going to church may be declining, but it’s still significant.

GOP Meets Limits to Donald Trump’s Victimhood Appeal

Trump and Republicans are failing to distinguish most voters from MAGA die-hards.

Defund the Speech Police

Both nationalists and progressives keep running into the wall that is the First Amendment.

What’s a Non-White Voter Anyway?

Lumping together every person not of wholly European ancestry into one group is not particularly edifying.

Be Less Thirsty

We got the beef.

Republicans Try to Undo Trump’s Damage on Mail-In Votes

The former president is his own worst enemy, but having a real campaign organization behind him can mitigate the damage.

A Shortcut Through the Long Campaign

We don’t have to get too wrapped up in the parties’ narratives at this point.

Kooks, Real and Imagined

What happened when the GOP fell in love with the idea of a permanent revolution.

Will the Haley Voters Come Back in November?

And what will loyal but non-MAGA voters do?

Llamas, Life Online, and Lessons Learned

How the news media followed social media mobs into the darkest corners of political life.