Paul Dupont, Author at The National Pulse

Please, Can Someone Help Explain Religious Freedom to Gary Johnson?

Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson recently sat down with Townhall.com’s Guy Benson for a fascinating interview covering a number of different topics. In “Part II” of the interview, Johnson…

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CNN Faces More Questions About Its Election Coverage

Earlier this week, Frank Cannon pointed out the transparently biased way in which CNN has reported on the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton’s “super-predator” comments made during her time as First…

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Could One State Election Decide the Future of the Transgender Debate?

Earlier this week, APP senior fellow and ThePulse2016.com contributor Maggie Gallagher was interviewed by Radio America’s Greg Corombos on religious freedom and the Republican Party. While religious freedom has become…

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Analysis

Let Giant Meteor of Death Debate!

While Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are clearly the top two candidates in this year’s presidential field, one independent challenger has been building some recent momentum. This would-be spoiler has…

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Analysis

New Poll: Common Core Support Takes Another Nosedive

Yesterday, EducationNext released its annual poll tracking opinions on some of the most hot-button issues in education policy, and the results spelled bad news for the educrat establishment. Chief among…

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Did Trump Jumpstart His Campaign With These Big Moves?

As is being widely reported today, Donald Trump made two notable campaign hires, bringing on veteran pollster Kellyanne Conway and Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon to serve in leadership roles.…

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Could Trump Re-energize the Conservative Movement?

Jeff Bell, the American Principles Project’s Policy Director and occasional contributor to The Pulse 2016, was recently featured in an interview with National Review writer Neal Freeman about the 2016 election and…

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Mike Pence’s Relationship with Common Core? It’s Complicated.

If your only knowledge of Indiana Governor Mike Pence’s stance on education policy comes from articles written in the past week, you can be forgiven for believing that the GOP…

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Why Republicans’ Surrender on Abortion Could Cost Them the Election . . . Again

On the abortion issue, things could not have gone much better for Democrats in 2012. Following Missouri GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin’s now infamous comments on “legitimate rape,” the Democratic…

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Trump Misses Huge Opportunity on Supreme Court Abortion Case

After keeping silent for most of the week following the Supreme Court’s pro-abortion ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, Donald Trump finally weighed in on the case yesterday in…

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For Trump’s Presidential Hopes, It’s Rust (Belt) or Bust

Recent polling has not looked good for Donald Trump. While the presumptive GOP nominee had closed the gap with Hillary Clinton at the end of last month, June polling has…

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