I learned through the network of people who worked for Jimmy Carter
that Pat Caddell, the pollster who helped elect him president, had
passed away Sunday morning at age 68 in Charleston, South Carolina, not
far from where he...
Bernie Sanders has money, a passionate base of support, and a will to battle for his cause for however long it takes, Elizabeth Warren is his ideological soulmate, and you would think that at some point, should he fail...
Choosing to live in a crime-stressed neighborhood in Newark, the city New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker once led as mayor, gives him a perspective that America sorely needs at this time. As rioters and looters turned peaceful protests into...
It’s one thing to preach unity, another to make it happen. Joe Biden needs Mitch McConnell the way the Earth needs the sun if he is to accomplish anything in the most closely divided Congress in memory. A Senate...
Fiona Hill’s unflinching testimony about President Trump using Ukraine for a “domestic political errand” to undermine a political rival made the British-born scholar an instant feminist icon. One of the final and most memorable “fact witnesses” in Trump’s first...
Red state Republican governors are vetoing bills targeting transgender children, mostly over sports access in schools, only to have redder state legislatures override their vetoes in search of a political payoff in November. The dissonance is pitting conservatives against...
President Joe Biden is expected to soon announce he’s running for re-election, and he’s got his campaign slogan: Finish the Job. In his 73-minute State of the Union speech, he repeated the phrase multiple times as he made the...
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...
Her husband endorsed Newt Gingrich, but Sarah Palin made it clear in a spirited speech Saturday before conservative activists that she’s in no hurry to see the GOP race end.
For a newcomer to the national stage, Janna Christine Little Ryan comes across as remarkably poised and confident, with a winning smile and a fashionably windswept look—in short, what’s known in the business as a natural. And no wonder;...