Edward Morrissey
Edward Morrissey has been writing about politics since 2003 in his blog, Captain's Quarters, and now writes for HotAir.com. His columns have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Post, The New York Sun, the Washington Times, and other newspapers. Morrissey has a daily Internet talk show on politics and culture at Hot Air. Since 2004, Morrissey has had a weekend talk radio show in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and often fills in as a guest on Salem Radio Network's nationally-syndicated shows. He lives in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota with his wife, son and daughter-in-law, and his two granddaughters. Morrissey's new book, GOING RED, will be published by Crown Forum on April 5, 2016.
Latest articles by Edward Morrissey
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The GOP blew it in 2017. And 2018 may be even tougher.
opinion Republicans in Congress face a daunting legislative calendar and an increasingly hostile environment in 2018
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What if Al Franken unresigns?
opinion Here comes Democrats' big Franken flip-flop ...
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Will Republicans learn the right lessons from their Roy Moore disaster?
opinion It's time for some soul-searching
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Democrats are so, so wrong about the GOP tax bill
opinion Their hysteria might just outweigh the GOP's incompetence
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How Al Franken hung on
opinion He's hit upon a cynical and effective strategy: the admission-free apology
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Why the GOP is finally disavowing Roy Moore
opinion Even if it means the loss of a Senate seat, McConnell and the GOP have chosen wisely
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Why a Fox-Disney deal would only breed more Hollywood corruption
feature What the industry desperately needs now is more accountability — not less
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Spinning the Mueller revelations
opinion Everybody's doing it
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Republicans in disarray
opinion Republicans are squabbling. Their legislative agenda is stalled. And it might get worse.
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The ballad of Mitch and Donald
opinion Let's talk about Trump and McConnell's phony bromance
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The Democrats cannot ignore their Harvey Weinstein problem
opinion Democrats have a long history with the alleged sexual predator. They cannot erase it.
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Why the national anthem protests are failing
opinion The NFL's players and owners cannot seem to fathom how or why these demonstrations are alienating millions of fans
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The ongoing delusions of Hillary Clinton
opinion Stop it, Hillary. You're not helping.
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How America's judges became feudal lords
opinion It's time to hold the federal judiciary accountable
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Obama's original sin on DACA
opinion Don't forget that Obama's legally questionable executive order created this DACA mess in the first place
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Can the GOP escape its destiny of demographic disaster?
opinion It won't be easy. But it can be done.
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Will D.C. botch the Harvey response with its usual nonsense?
opinion Houston is underwater. Rockport is flattened. And Washington, D.C., is up to its old tricks.
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Congress' looming gauntlet
opinion September may be the cruelest month for Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell
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Nothing about 'blood and soil' is American
The Explainer Here's what the vile neo-Nazi slogan really means
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Republicans may have already bungled tax reform
opinion The same problems that killed the ObamaCare repeal may plague the GOP's other major agenda item
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The rise and fall of the Mooch
opinion Reflections on the brief and wondrous time of Anthony Scaramucci
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The inevitable return of Trump TV
opinion This time with state financing!
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The GOP's health-care bill is dead, and Mitch McConnell is to blame
opinion The bill is all but dead, just like McConnell's credibility
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There is still no actual evidence of Trump-Russia collusion
opinion Donald Trump Jr.'s Russia meeting was foolish. That doesn't make it criminal.
By Edward Morrissey Published
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