To illustrate party polarization, politics professor Jack Pitney showed his class the recent 30-second web ad released by President Trump’s re-election campaign that says Democrats are “complicit” when undocumented immigrants commit murder. The students reacted with “nervous laughter, jaw...
The Trump administration is hellbent on adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census form. Democrats are passionate about stopping this affront to the Constitution, which calls for an accurate account of everyone living in the country. And...
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 ...
More than 200 Republican members of Congress are on record asking the Supreme Court to “reconsider” and overturn, “if appropriate,” Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision that legalized abortion and ignited a culture war that continues to animate...
Her name is Bronwen Adams but everybody calls her Bronnie and for the last 40 years she was Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s interior decorator and all-round go-to person. A mutual friend told me Bronnie had some stories to share about...
A Jan. 6 commission is doomed in Washington, but outside the Beltway, a COVID commission is underway to investigate the origins of the virus, analyze and preserve lessons learned from the pandemic, and propose a path forward to handle...
Born in a Nevada mining town in 1939, Harry Mason Reid grew up in a house correctly described as a shack with no indoor toilet, hot water, or telephone. Years later, when he had improbably risen to become majority...
The Internal Revenue Service is among the beneficiaries of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act, with nearly $80 billion headed to the beleaguered agency. That money will be used to hire 87,000 new employees over 10 years, including a...
If anybody wondered whether Casey DeSantis shared her husband’s distaste for anything deemed “woke,” there’s no more wondering. The first lady of Florida delivered a hard-right video attacking LGBTQ and trans rights, presenting herself as the lead Mama of...
It would have been hard to imagine not so long ago, but Barack Obama will be saying some very nice things about George W. Bush on Thursday. It’s become a time-honored ritual that with the installation of a past...