Monica Crowley

How Donald Trump can knock out Hillary Clinton in the first debate

It promises to be the greatest show on earth: the first presidential debate to be held Monday night at Hofstra University in New York. Rarely has a political event attracted this kind of Super Bowl-level excitement, curiosity and anticipation. Then again, rarely have we had two presidential candidates who light up the political sky like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

September 21, 2016

‘Never forget’ Sept. 11 — by voting on it

Fifteen years ago, 19 men boarded four aircraft in the United States. A few hours later, thousands of people were dead -- and the country and the world were changed forever.

September 14, 2016

Donald Trump’s Nixon-goes-to-China moment

Prior to being elected president, Richard Nixon built his political career on being a staunch opponent of communism. He had run for Congress in 1946 on an anti-communist platform, exposed senior State Department official Alger Hiss as a top-level spy for the Soviet Union, and as vice president, debated Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on the merits of capitalism versus Marxism in the famous "Kitchen Debate" of 1959.

September 7, 2016

Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton and the guns of August

The guns of August -- a phrase first used to describe the outbreak of World War I -- is a real phenomenon. Maybe it's the heat, but there's something about the eighth month that seems to inspire armed conflict. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990.

August 24, 2016

Trump economic plan must address government spending

Republican nominee Donald Trump's recently unveiled economic plan was roundly praised for its aggressive pro-growth, job-creating proposals.

August 17, 2016

A new great silent majority may yield Election Day surprise

Every four years like clockwork, the two major presidential nominees present their competing visions for the future of the country. This year, however, those visions are so starkly different as to be nearly irreconcilable. They may, in fact, indicate a breach far deeper and more searing than previously thought.

August 10, 2016

Media’s lies, double standards accelerate

According to the media, not all grieving parents of fallen servicemen are created equal. Whether those parents are protected, defended and respected or ignored, dismissed and smeared depends on their political affiliation -- and how useful they are to the "right" side.

August 3, 2016

The speech Hillary Clinton should give tonight

As she strides toward the podium tonight in Philadelphia to accept the Democratic nomination for president, Hillary Clinton may want to keep late Sen. Edward Kennedy in mind.

July 27, 2016

The speech Donald Trump should give tonight to win it all

Tonight in Cleveland, Donald Trump will accept the Republican nomination for president of the United States. His ascent is the most astonishing political story of our lifetimes, and he achieved it with breathtaking fearlessness, cleverness, wit and smarts. Most importantly, he had from the start an extraordinary sixth sense of the anger, betrayal and anxiety roiling voters and driving their desire to smash the existing order.

July 20, 2016

Hillary Clinton beats the rap while condemning others to face it

As he methodically laid out the case against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private, unsecure server and email accounts to carry out all of her official government business as secretary of state before declining to recommend criminal charges, FBI Director James Comey left out one major piece of evidence.

July 13, 2016

What Hillary Clinton doesn’t get: It’s the freedom, stupid

The upheaval sweeping the globe is about something much bigger, more unifying and transcendent than a particular set of issues; it's about the fierce desire for liberty.

June 29, 2016

Obama tries to go full Orwellian on the Islamic threat

Nearly two weeks after Omar Mateen went on his Islamist killing spree in Orlando, President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and The New York Times are still searching for his motive.

June 22, 2016

How Obama’s failed leadership is literally killing us

The most recent Islamic act of war, in which self-professed Islamic State jihadi Omar Mir Seddique Mateen slaughtered 49 people and injured scores of others at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., should be a game changer. The deadliest attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, should finally convince our leadership that dealing with the Islamic threat must no longer be business as usual.

June 15, 2016

Mothers who wield authority are heroines

When I was about 13 years old, my mother sat me down to read me the proverbial riot act. I hadn't done anything to necessitate it; it was a pre-emptive strike on her part to make sure that her newly teenaged daughter stayed on the straight and narrow.

June 8, 2016

MONICA CROWLEY: How Donald Trump is resurrecting the ‘great silent majority’

In late October 1969, Richard Nixon took out one of his famous yellow legal pads to jot down some thoughts. The new president was faced with serious global and domestic turmoil. The Soviet Union had initiated a nuclear buildup, the Middle East was aflame (some things never change), and the war in Vietnam raged on.

June 1, 2016

MONICA CROWLEY: Obama, Hiroshima and the Left’s destructive compulsion to apologize

During President Obama's first term, there were reports that he considered apologizing to Japan for the U.S. decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II. The White House denied it.

May 25, 2016

MONICA CROWLEY: How Donald Trump is drawing in Democrats

This election year, major cross-currents are moving within both political parties and across party lines. And no one yet has a handle on how they are reshaping the race.

May 18, 2016

MONICA CROWLEY: Obama’s King’s Guard

Every once in a while, some liberal will drop the left-wing code of omerta and blurt out exactly what their organized deception syndicate is up to.

May 11, 2016

MONICA CROWLEY: Why women just aren’t into the presidential race

With its shattering of old-school political rules, the dominance of colorful personalities and the raging desire to smash the establishment status quo, the 2016 campaign has been wild. And yet, not everyone is paying as close attention to the race as might be expected. Women, in particular, apparently have better things to do.

May 4, 2016

MONICA CROWLEY: The linchpin of the FBI’s Hillary Clinton investigation

Several weeks ago, I wrote a column titled "Is Bill Clinton in the FBI crosshairs?" That question appears to be increasingly relevant because of the emergence of another, more central one:

April 27, 2016