A secret kept for a half century about a controversial future president’s gift to the new widow of a fallen civil rights icon seems improbable, but Xernona Clayton was there and is now telling the story. The civil rights...
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...
Until she resigned her post effective Aug. 1, British-born Russia scholar Fiona Hill held a key position in the White House overseeing and coordinating the administration’s relations with the former Soviet Union, Russia and Europe. She coined the phrase...
Oklahoma is one of the reddest states in the country, yet it just voted for Medicaid expansion, a key element of Obamacare. Government may be broken, but democracy is making itself heard. In just under 90 days, 313,000 Oklahomans,...
Virginia state Senator Amanda Chase is the leading edge of the GOP’s worst nightmare: Trumpian extremists who are unelectable winning their party’s nomination. She is so anti-mask that she’d rather sit inside a plexiglass cube specially constructed for her...
His name wasn’t on the ballot in Virginia, but the ex-president is sure to claim victory in a governor’s race where his endorsed candidate, Republican Glenn Youngkin, came from significantly behind to defeat Democrat Terry McAuliffe. Painful as it...
COVID-19 could end up taking down two presidents—the one who was grossly incompetent, and the one who expected to ride a vaccine to victory over the coronavirus. In other words, Donald Trump might very well have been re-elected if...
President Gerald Ford believed he did the right thing when in 1974 he pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon, of any criminality connected to the cover-up of the Watergate scandal that had forced Nixon to be the first (and to...
The calls to step down come from both the left and center—amplified by law professors, scholarly legal journals, and anti-Trump pundits—warning about the risks to the Supreme Court and the country if Justice Sonia Sotomayor isn’t replaced while there’s...
Pakistan’s new ambassador brings glamour to her critical post, along with a willingness to play hardball. Sherry Rehman embodies the beauty and the boldness of her friend and mentor, Benazir Bhutto.