No Democrat has won statewide office in Georgia since 1998. But Michelle Nunn intends to change that by winning the Senate seat her father held for 24 years. Nunn is campaigning as an “independent minded” Democrat, and when I...
A preemptive pardon is tricky. Rep. Matt Gaetz didn’t get one four years ago, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. According to two Trump White House aides who testified before the January 6 committee, Gaetz sought a pardon...
The days when women in political marriages stood stoically by their man have given way to a new paradigm of the wife as validator, a cover for her husband. The new twist on an old story is playing out...
The conservative media got the memo: Whenever the Russia probe comes up, get outraged and say that it—as in the probe itself, not what it may be uncovering about Trump—is “worse than Watergate.” After all, that’s what Democrats have...
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...
Like all things Trumpian, it’s about as subtle as a wrecking ball: A lavish ballroom, bigger than a football field, with aspirations of Versailles and shades of Caesars Palace. Visitors to the Oval Office in recent months have been...
When Anita Hill testified before an all-male and all-white Senate Judiciary committee in 1991, no one was in her corner—not the country, not the lawmakers grilling her, and certainly not history. Sexual harassment was a new term, and the...
year after Joe Biden won Virginia by 10 points, electing a Democrat as governor should be a slam dunk. And for a time, Terry McAuliffe looked unbeatable, a popular former governor returning to the statehouse to keep the state...
The empire struck back Tuesday in Illinois. After more than a year of the Democratic Resistance sucking up all the oxygen, Dan Lipinski, a 51-year-old conservative Democrat in a Southside Chicago working class district narrowly beat back a challenge...
Voters will deliver another verdict on whether a moderate Democrat can survive in a red Trump state when they go to the polls Saturday in Louisiana’s run-off race for governor. “When you’re a Southern Democrat, you’re fully aware that...