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Midterms Looking Good For Democrats
New Generic Congressional Ballot polls have good news for Democrats.
New Generic Congressional Ballot polls have good news for Democrats.
Congressman Keith Ellison won his party’s nomination for Minnesota Attorney General notwithstanding last-minute allegations of abuse against a former girlfriend.
As much as we hate paying $200 a month for television, the future is likely going to be worse.
The race for the Republican nomination for Governor between Governor Jeff Colyer and Secretary of State Kris Kobach is even closer than ever and will likely remain undecided for weeks.
The Republican Party’s nominee for Senator in Virginia really is as bad as you’ve heard, probably worse.
New York Congressman Chris Collins, who was the first Congressman to endorse President Trump, has been indicted for what amounts to one of the dumber and most obvious cases of securities fraud ever seen.
Corey Stewart rose to become the Republican Party’s Senate nominee in Virginia with blatant appeals to racial division. Now his party fears they’ll be the ones who end up paying the price.
President Trump says he wants to talk to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but his own lawyers clearly don’t trust him enough to allow that to go forward.
Former Trump lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen is reportedly ready to tell investigators that the President is lying about his knowledge regarding the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer.
A new recording of a conversation between Donald Trump and his one-time attorney/”fixer” Michael Cohen appears to put the President in a more difficult position than he has already been in.
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is running for a third term under a dark ethical cloud. That probably won’t matter.
Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.
Donald Trump’s military parade will cost roughly the same as military exercises in South Korea he has previously called “tremendously expensive.”
Donald Trump’s longtime attorney and “fixer” Michael Cohen apparently recorded a conversation where the two men discussed paying off a Playboy model who claims she had an affair with him.
In the wake of a grievance filed by the union representing players, the N.F.L. has suspended the new National Anthem policy it announced earlier this year. This guarantees even more cynical political exploitation by the President.
Rick Scott is pulling in impressive fundraising numbers, giving Democrats reason to worry that they’ll have another Senate seat to worry about in November.
California’s Democratic Party endorsed “progressive” upstart Kevin de León over Senator Dianne Feinstein, but this is unlikely to stop Feinstein from winning election to a sixth term in office.
Not surprisingly, the President’s visit to the United Kingdom wasn’t exactly diplomatic, or even borderline polite.
In a new interview, former Trump attorney and ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen gives the strongest signal yet that he’s ready to cooperate with investigators.
The calls to “Abolish ICE” are spreading to potential candidates for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.
As Washington gets ready to fight a new battle over Roe v. Wade an new poll shows that most Americans oppose overturning that decision.
The House of Representatives has left town after once again failing to pass an immigration reform bill,, thus likely ensuring that nothing will be passed before the midterms.
The White House is hoping for a relatively quick turnaround time to pick a replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Rebutting the President’s routine prevarications merely spreads them. Is there an alternative?
Donald Trump continues to demonstrate that he has nothing but utter contempt for the Rule of Law. At some point, he will either be called to account for this or our nation’s institutions will suffer as a result.
Some activists on the left are calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished. While that may be a great sound bite, it doesn’t really accomplish anything.
A new survey shows that Americans are increasingly unable to tell the difference between fact and opinion. That’s a problem.
The odds of an immigration bill passing the House were already low. This morning, President Trump pretty much guaranteed failure.
Donald Trump wants Republicans to make his immigration policies the centerpiece of the midterm campaign. What could possibly go wrong?
New polling shows that the Trump Administration’s family separation policy is widely unpopular, with only Republicans supporting it. That last fact, though, is why Trump is unlikely to change the policy.
Trump supporters seeking to justify the Trump Administration’s family separation policy are drawing a false, and baseless, equivalence between immigrant families and people who have been convicted of crimes.
A 9-0 ruling side-stepped the broader issue of to what extent purely political considerations may be applied.
Democrats have decided to move up the date of their 2020 Convention.
The Trump administration’s approach to immigrant children is a serious test of our national morality.
In a new interview, the President says that he doesn’t believe that N.F.L. players who kneel during the National Anthem have a real issue.
The plagiarism case reported last May was resolved after ten months of aggravation for both sides.
The old name was apparently confusing for many customers.
President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.
GOP primary voters continue to reward staunch supporters of the President and punish those who get on his bad side.
Thanks to Donald Trump, the happiest man in the world right now is Vladimir Putin.
Anthony Bourdain was a renowned chef, writer, television host, and storyteller. He also suffered from demons that ultimately caught up with him.
Most Americans disagree with Trump on the N.F.L. National Anthem protests, but Republicans are behind him.
Days after designer Kate Spade killed herself, depression has claimed another celebrity.
Once again, President Trump seems intent on insulting a major American ally.
The actions of the Trump administration are helping Russian-EU relations (to the detriment of the US).
In the Trump Era, the White House Press Briefing is becoming shorter and less informative.
A couple weeks ago, the North Koreans made a big deal about destroying their nuclear test site. It now appears that the event the media witnessed was less than meets the eye.
With the President’s “Spygate” allegations standing largely discredited, his attorney and at the moment chief spokesperson Rudy Giuliani admits that the entire conspiracy theory was created to discredit the Mueller investigation.
The Trump Administration has lost track of nearly 1,500 children at the same time that it is implementing a new policy that will result in children who arrive at the border with their parents or other family members.