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Even though the election is still months away, there is a panting urgency to campaign stories at mainstream publications as political reporters and...
Marjorie Taylor Greene is poised to make history this week if she goes forward with her bid to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker. After her lengthy...
Six months before the most fateful election of our lifetimes, we are entering that moment in the campaign when model makers rush onstage hawking their...
Little more than a decade ago, campaign finance reform was one of the hottest issues animating Democrats. Now it seems as irrelevant as a national...
Just because the 2024 election may decide the future of American democracy doesn’t mean that the race is riveting, let alone dramatic, six months...
Last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson channeled Arthur Vandenberg as he adroitly steered desperately badly needed military aid to Ukraine around...
Nearly two years after the leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade, abortion refuses to step out of the...
The unmourned death of O.J. Simpson last week provided a timely reminder that a criminal trial can galvanize a nation. The political question hovering...
Impeachment was once considered the most serious and solemn constitutional obligation of Congress. Then-Sen. John F. Kennedy, in his Pulitzer-Prize...
Forty years ago, Jeane Kirkpatrick, a hawkish former Democrat who was Ronald Reagan’s U.N. ambassador, electrified the 1984 Republican convention by...
There are many compelling reasons to recoil at Chinese ownership of TikTok, starting with the quashing of political freedom in once freewheeling Hong...
Slowly, but inexorably, Israel is losing the leaders of the Democratic Party over its brutal war in Gaza. Kamala Harris , getting ahead of her boss...
If someone had told Katie Britt on election night 2022 that she would someday by portrayed by megastar Scarlett Johansson, the newly elected Alabama...
White House leaks in advance of the State of the Union Address have telegraphed Joe Biden’s intention to stress how age and experience have made him...
On the cusp of the third State of the Union address of his presidency, Joe Biden is confronting subterranean approval ratings, two wars (Gaza and...
Finally, Democrats have a presidential contender who can appeal to the most disaffected voters in the party’s sprawling and sometimes unwieldy...
This is shaping up as a presidential election designed to Donald Rumsfeld’s specifications. At a 2002 press conference during the run-up to the...
During a televised hearing 70 years ago that brought down demagogic Wisconsin Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy, patrician Boston lawyer Joseph Welch...
Waging a race against Donald Trump that even Don Quixote might consider not worth the gamble, Nikki Haley gives the impression that, at long last, she...
The line is widely, but incorrectly, attributed to Winston Churchill. In truth, it is probably a modification of a remark made by 20th century Israeli...
From his earliest days in politics, more than a half-century ago, Joe Biden has understood the potency of the age issue. When the 29-year-old Biden...
The Senate immigration bill, finally released just in time to roil Congress on Sunday night, offers more political angles than a high-school...
When he wasn’t having temper tantrums in a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump — the one-man wrecking ball destroying political norms — turned his...
Nikki Haley will always have Dixville Notch whose six midnight votes in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary she carried unanimously. The former South...
The cheering is still echoing in my ears and bits of brightly colored confetti are stubbornly clinging to my head. Not since the raucous celebration...
Campaign reporters have been breathlessly chronicling the 2024 Republican primaries since Donald Trump prematurely launched his third presidential bid...
Sixty years ago, fashionable liberal opinion was in despair over congressional dysfunction. In 1963, eminent political scientist and Democratic...
Picture a happy Democrat. C’mon. Concentrate. You can do it. Maybe you can recall the momentary joy on the Saturday after the 2020 election...