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 is reportedly considering the 47-year-old Utah Senator to replace Anthony Kennedy.
In a significant First Amendment ruling, the Supreme Court has held that a Minnesota law barring “political apparel” at polling places is unconstitutional.
Virginia Republicans took a hard-right turn in yesterday’s primary. This is likely to benefit the Democrats.
Whether Don Blankenship wins or loses in West Virginia, his success is yet another example of how Donald Trump has changed the GOP for the worse.
Not surprisingly, Mike Pompeo was confirmed as America’s 70th Secretary of State today. Now, the hard work begins.
A longtime “Hillary Beat” reporter ruminates on what she and her candidate could have done differently in 2016.
Kyrsten Sinema, the likely Democratic nominee for the Senate in Arizona, is leading all three of her potential Republican challengers. This could spell trouble for the GOP.
Joe Arpaio is saying he might reopen his “investigation” into former President Obama’s birthplace if he’s elected Senator.
The Trump presidency is the latest step in treating commentators like policy experts. It is all a manifestation of how the modern GOP is a populist party.
Rex Tillerson was an awful Secretary of State who simply had to go, It’s quite possible his successor will be an even greater disaster.
Once again, there’s speculation in Washington that Justice Anthony Kennedy could retire this year.
On OTB’s subjective, inconsistent enforcement of its policies designed to promote civil discussion.
The 80-year-old Mississippi Republican, who was first elected to the Senate in 1978 after serving six years in the House, has been in poor health.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case pitting the First Amendment against the right of states to regulate elections.
The Tea Party is dead, but it was never really alive to begin with.
Will Joe Arpaio cause the GOP to lose an otherwise winnable Senate race?
It’s been seven years since Congress eliminated earmarking, and what we’ve seen has provided good evidence for the argument that it should never have been eliminated.
The deal that led to the end of the Federal Government shutdown isn’t sitting well with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.
After nearly twenty years, the Republican domination of the Virginia House of Delegates came to an end thanks to a single vote.
Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.