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...
If you go by the numbers, President Trump is in a stronger position
to win reelection than Bill Clinton was at the same point in his
presidency. Trump’s job approval is 46 percent in the latest NBC-Wall
Street Journal...
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...
Anti-Trump strategist and pundit Steve Schmidt is feeling the heat from all sides since his client, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, announced on 60 Minutes that he might run for president as an independent. The reaction from Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans was...