At least three of the nearly two dozen Democrats eyeing the
presidency would have a good shot at winning a Senate race and helping
to end the GOP’s domination. Instead they chose not to answer their
party’s call to...
Jimmy Carter won the presidency in 1976 because he understood the mood of the country, and because his message of populist reform reached disaffected voters in a way that eluded other more established politicians vying for...
In every presidential election, there is talk of a brokered
convention in which the finalists jostle for power in a mad scramble to
amass the requisite delegates to win the nomination.
Political
junkies yearn for a party convention where...
When about a dozen men, along with one woman, filed into the Politics
and Prose bookstore in the midst of Jonathan Metzl’s talk about Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland, listeners at...
Democrat
Elijah Cummings chairs the House Oversight Committee, a tough job made
tougher by White House stonewalling and by Republicans on the committee
trying to torpedo an investigation into prescription drug pricing.
Ranking member Jim Jordan of Ohio and...
What Mitch McConnell lacks in charisma, he more than makes up for
with steely discipline. With little fanfare, he pushed through a change
in Senate rules last week to reduce the time for debate on certain
judicial nominees and...
The money chase is on, and Democrats across the presidential field
are bragging about their low-dollar average contribution size, while
downplaying their contacts with big donors in Hollywood and on Wall
Street.
Elizabeth Warren took that tactic a step...
When Vice President Biden said at a dinner with Delaware Democrats
last weekend that he has “the most progressive record of anybody
running,” he made news because he’s not quite running yet.
But
what grabbed me was the echo...
A
dozen Republicans voted with the Democrats to support a resolution
rebuking President Trump for declaring a national emergency in order to
secure money to build a wall on the southwestern border. This is a major
insurrection within the...