Remember Newt Gingrich? The former bombastic speaker of the House who gained prominence by denigrating his political opponents as “radical,” “sick,” and “traitors,” rhetoric that was not commonplace at the time, and sent shock waves through...
The homemade peanut butter ice cream is great. The gnats are awful; they dive-bomb your eyes. Plains, Georgia hasn’t changed much since Jimmy Carter returned home after losing re-election 40 years ago. It’s still a pretty isolated place to my...
Medicare for All is a nice catchphrase, but for a party seeking to
unseat President Trump, it is a poison pill that the Democratic
candidates should not swallow whole. The popularizer of
the idea, Bernie Sanders, conceded under questioning on...
Bernie Sanders is the most popular senator in America, according to the last 11 Morning Consult polls, a distinction that may say as much about the institution and its fall from grace as the curmudgeonly junior ...
“Less is more” doesn’t have the ring of “It’s the economy, stupid”
but it sums up the Biden campaign’s rope-a-dope strategy, engaging as
little as possible with the media and the public as other Democratic
primary candidates punch themselves...
Young, mostly male, and overwhelmingly white judges appointed by President Trump are on the cusp of remaking the once reliably liberal Ninth Circuit of the Court of Appeals, the nation’s highest court below the Supreme Court....
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 ...
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...