Insulting and belittling California Congresswoman Maxine Waters is how President Trump revs up his base, mocking her in ways meant to reflect badly on her race and gender. For Democrats, his brand of biased mockery is job insurance for...
Supreme Court expansion is no longer dismissed as a crazy idea, not after six conservative justices hijacked a Texas case to ban almost all abortions in the state, issuing their opinion on a shadow docket in the dead of...
With Tropical Storm Chantal headed for South Florida with landfall likely Saturday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott is sounding alarm bells about the impact of National Guard furloughs on state storm preparations. “The problem is you’re losing training time, you’re...
Moving quickly to show leadership as COVID continues its relentless march, President-elect Joe Biden turned to former FDA Commissioner David Kessler to co-chair a 13-member pandemic task force. Kessler earned his reputation as David going after Goliath when he...
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...
When Catherine Ashton was named High Representative for Foreign Affairs and National Security Policy for the European Union, the predominantly male foreign policy community harrumphed its disapproval. She lacked star power, and she had no background in foreign affairs....
With a deal to allow votes on five of seven presidential nominees stalled by Republican filibuster threats, the Senate pulled back from the brink. But it is not clear whether the compromise, struck after what amounted to a four-hour...
After winning the presidency on the strength of support from evangelicals, Donald Trump wants to know: Where is the love? The religious right is abandoning him after he delivered on their decades-long project to overturn Roe v. Wade. They...
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...
The events in El Paso and Dayton over the weekend give new meaning to the phrase the enemy within. The country is under siege from what law enforcement officials are calling domestic terrorism inspired by white supremacist ideology. What...