Is Nikki Haley a middle-of-the-road Republican? The kind they used to make before Donald Trump hijacked the GOP and obliterated the traditional conservative order? In messaging and demeanor, maybe, but not in policies. She’s a hardliner on the use...
In the three years since armed insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump and his allies have rewritten history to portray the rioters as patriots seeking to prevent an illegitimate government from taking power. The Jan. 6 attack was...
The Biden campaign is making a big bet on voters waking up to how much President Joe Biden has accomplished, especially how much he has transformed the judiciary. His judges elevate public defenders, voting rights lawyers, and union organizers,...
For a political party that has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to women, the Republicans most out front challenging the GOP’s Trumpian slide away from democracy are women. Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) could...
Of all the issues before voters, healthcare remains the holy grail for Democrats. In the last three election cycles, it delivered Democratic victories based on deeply held beliefs about which party could be trusted to reform a system that...
Today, it’s hard to believe the uproar that erupted when first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 96, traveled to Latin America to represent her husband in June 1977. There were cries of “Who...
Just hours before an Army reservist shot up a bowling alley and then a bar in rural Maine, the U.S. Senate voted to prohibit the Veterans Administration from automatically reporting to the FBI background checks system the names of...
Wildly successful in business, and the first Democrat to represent his congressional district in 60 years, it’s not surprising that Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) fancies himself as a potential president. He’s got a healthy ego, and he’s jumping into...
Republicans convened again today in their search for a House Speaker, and it doesn’t look promising. They can’t even agree on whether to keep voting behind closed doors or to take their internal battles to the House floor for...
Democracy is messy. Everybody gets to have their say, it takes longer than it should, nobody gets everything they want, and in the end, the majority rules, a simple principle that’s getting a stress test on Capitol Hill. After...