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If the Supreme Court takes its time in handing down a ruling on Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity for insurrection-related crimes, voters...
It was a remarkable moment: After introducing a package of bills that includes military aid to Ukraine, Mike Johnson flatly told reporters on...
Looking back, it’s clear that one of the more fateful moments in the evolution of today’s Republican Party came when Kevin McCarthy made his...
Steve Bannon no doubt thought he was being deviously clever. Speaking with The New York Times this week, he elaborated on a sophisticated plan that...
When Judge Aileen Cannon handed down her latest ruling in the prosecution of Donald Trump for stealing classified documents, many legal observers...
Donald Trump has invented a new criminological category he describes as “Migrant Crime,” and in Michigan on Tuesday, he seized on the horrible...
One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics is the eagerness to seize on large scale accidents, disasters, and pandemics to spread conspiracy...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to announce that he’s chosen a running mate for his third-party presidential run: Nicole Shanahan, a 38-year-old...
For too long, Donald Trump has enjoyed the presumption among media and political elites that he’s fundamentally different from the Republican Party...
Pinned atop Elon Musk’s mighty Twitter feed—sorry, his X feed—is a video that purports to lay bare a vast conspiracy among Democrats to...
Poor Mike Johnson is in quite a bind. The House speaker simply doesn’t have a governing majority: It is borderline impossible to pass anything with...
The House GOP’s effort to impeach President Biden appears to be in deep trouble. Republicans are privately admitting that their case against Biden...
The centrist group No Labels held a vote of delegates Friday and announced plans to move forward in seeking candidates for a third-party presidential...
Amid the barrage of tweets that Donald Trump fired off during President Biden’s State of the Union address, no topic was more central than the...
President Biden’s brain trust appears confident that he will ultimately prevail over Donald Trump due to the threat Trump poses to our...
In the wake of the Supreme Court agreeing to hear Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity from prosecution—potentially delaying his...
When Donald Trump attacked the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children, it was widely seen as a glaring...
Around six months ago, when speculation raged that Senator Joe Manchin might join a third-party presidential ticket on behalf of the centrist group No...
As you’ve surely heard by now, the FBI has criminally charged an informant for lying about claims related to an ongoing special counsel...
You’ve probably heard that Donald Trump has “tightened his grip on the Republican Party,” or that he’s “bent the party to his will.”...
For many liberals and Democrats, the release of a new, harshly worded special counsel report on President Biden is stirring terrible flashbacks to...
Because Republicans are so profoundly concerned about the border, the House GOP leadership’s first response to the new Senate border security deal...
In recent weeks, a deep fatalism has set in among liberals and Democrats. The proximate cause has been the disconnect between President Biden’s...
Republican Senator James Lankford, who is leading negotiations over a border security bill, is discovering to his great shock that Donald Trump and...
When it comes to Donald Trump’s legal travails, there are two general schools of thought among Democrats. In one, a jury’s finding that Trump is...
Donald Trump’s lawyers have been arguing in court that he should have immunity from prosecution for crimes related to his insurrection because they...
Earlier this month, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released an explosive report documenting that Donald Trump’s businesses pocketed...
GOP Representative Elise Stefanik no doubt thought it was shrewd to describe the rioters who attacked the Capitol as “January 6 hostages.” This...
Donald Trump and his lawyers are making an extraordinary demand in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals: They want Trump granted immunity from criminal...
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