Kristen Soltis Anderson

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The Republican State Leadership Committee launching specific female-focused candidate recruitment efforts, and the National Republican Congressional Committee has elevated Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., to head up their candidate recruitment efforts. But while so much attention is being paid to the importance of elevating women to office, it is possible Republicans will end 2018 with fewer Republican women in the House of Representatives than they started with. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Is the Republican congresswoman an endangered species?

Kristen Soltis Anderson · January 31, 2018 5:07 am

The Republican Party is looking for opportunities to roll back what could be a Democratic washouts in the 2018 midterm elections. Governors' races could be the ticket. (iStock)

Can blue state Republican governors survive a blue wave?

Kristen Soltis Anderson · January 17, 2018 4:11 am

The traditional news media gave more coverage to Donald Trump during the campaign than they did to his opponents, and covering Trump has not proven to be bad for business. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump is right: He’s a gift to the media and Twitter

Kristen Soltis Anderson · January 3, 2018 2:09 pm

Republicans in the House passed their tax reform bill Tuesday. The bill, the party-line vote, and the political climate appear to be an exact inverse of Democrats' passage of the Affordable Care Act seven years ago. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Tax reform bill: Is the GOP about to pass its Obamacare?

Kristen Soltis Anderson · December 19, 2017 10:39 pm

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Young voters want nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans, and I don’t blame them

Kristen Soltis Anderson · December 6, 2017 12:05 am

Kirstjen Nielsen's nomination by President Trump for secretary of homeland security was advanced out of committee, with a final vote on her confirmation is expected shortly after Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The treatment of this Trump nominee shows why we don’t have more women in power

Kristen Soltis Anderson · November 22, 2017 2:50 pm

Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie gestures as he delivers a concession speech during an election party in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. Gillespie lost to Democrat Ralph Northam. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

No surprise here: Ed Gillespie got Trump-like numbers for a Trump-like campaign

Kristen Soltis Anderson · November 8, 2017 4:15 am

"Country first" conservatives make up only six percent of the politically engaged U.S. electorate. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Trump’s enthusiastic nationalist base, it turns out, is small

Kristen Soltis Anderson · October 25, 2017 8:17 pm

Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, head of Austrian People's Party, speaks in a TV debate in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Austria will hold national elections on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017 (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Meet the conservative, maybe populist, millennial who could run Austria

Kristen Soltis Anderson · October 13, 2017 3:33 am

At well over 320 million people between the ages of 20 and 34 living in China today, the scope of the generation we in the US would define as Chinaâs "millennial" generation is astonishing. (iStock Photo)

China’s young people embrace the future and America, but free speech? Not so much.

Kristen Soltis Anderson · September 29, 2017 1:56 pm

Millennials make up a majority of new teachers, and are increasingly the parents of young children who are entering public schools. (Todd Berkey/The Tribune-Democrat via AP)

Millennial parents don’t accept the status quo in education

Kristen Soltis Anderson · September 13, 2017 2:53 pm

With congressional Republicans no longer holding back as much in their criticism of Trump's actions and behavior, it feels like the divide within the Republican Party is deep. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Forget Obamacare repeal and tax reform. After Trump and Tea Party, big issues are over.

Kristen Soltis Anderson · August 30, 2017 12:54 pm