

Cold Civil War or Civil Cold War?
The Kavanaugh fight is just another indicator of our national divide.
The Kavanaugh fight is just another indicator of our national divide.
The F.B.I.’s updated background check is complete and will be reviewed by Senators beginning today. As a result, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is moving forward toward a final vote on the Kavanaugh nomination later this week.
While I was originally content to let Brett Kavanaugh sail through to confirmation, I now feel compelled to oppose his nomination to be a Supreme Court Justice.
After placing limits on the scope of the F.B.I.’s reopened background investigation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the White House has relented and is allowing a more open-ended investigation.
Is the reopened investigation of Brett Kavanaugh a real investigation of the charges made against him by three separate women, or is it a political sham? It’s beginning to look much more like the latter than the former.
Just hours before hearings that will likely determine the fate of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, new accusations and revelations are coming to light.
In what appears to be a first, Judge Brett Kavanaugh took to the media to defend his nomination. Not surprisingly, he chose a friendly venue.
New allegations of sexual misconduct mark the start of a crucial week for the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
We’ll likely never know whether the Supreme Court nominee is a sexual assaulter. But it really doesn’t matter.
The first day of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings was much ado about pretty much nothing, but then that can be used to describe a process whose outcome is pretty much foreordained.
Kris Kobach, the controversial Secretary of State of Kansas who is also a Trump ally, holds on to a slim lead in the GOP Primary for Governor.
There’s a reason President Trump’s Supreme Court picks are “normal” in a way his national security and economic teams are not.
A selection that is likely to keep the Senate GOP united and red-state Democrats up for re-election under pressure to vote to confirm.
President Trump’s short list of potential Supreme Court nominees consists mostly of conventionally conservative, well-qualified, jurists.
President Trump is reportedly considering the 47-year-old Utah Senator to replace Anthony Kennedy.
The Trump Administration has suffered another setback in its efforts to repeal DACA.
Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.
Wisconsin-Stevens Point is shuttering 13 majors, including English, history, political science and sociology while expanding more job-oriented programs.
Chelsea Manning is running for Senate, but she may be violating military regulations by doing so.
With the Administration set to commit the United States to a forever war in Syria, it’s time for Congress to act.
Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant is one of his most bizarre.
Bowe Bergdahl received a dishonorable discharge and reduction in rank, but will not serve time in prison.
As expected, a group of Democratic states is suing the Trump Administration over the decision to end the DACA program.
A seemingly ‘safe choice’ for F.B. I. Director.
The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is hinting at a new Supreme Court vacancy this summer.
An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.
The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.
Concepts, basic applications, and even a bibliography! Merry Festivus, everyone.
David Brooks thinks American politics “Could get ugly” before the ship gets righted.
Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.
Thirty five years after trying to kill President Reagan, John W. Hinckley Jr. is close to being a free man.
The second night of the Democratic Convention seemed much calmer than the first, as the Clinton campaign moves forward toward the biggest speech of Hillary Clinton’s life.
A man who survived great horrors to become a tireless witness for truth and advocate for human rights has passed away.
Justice Sotomayor argued last week that we ought to look somewhere other than just the Courts of Appeal, the Ivy League, and the Northeast for Supreme Court Justices. She’s right.
It didn’t take long for the political battle over the seat held by the late Justice Antonin Scalia to become another part of the 2016 political battle.
Protests by students at Princeton are causing some people to finally pay attention to some inconvenient truths about America’s 28th President.
Paradoxically, the children of affluent parents are less happy than those of the poor.
Ben Carson and his supporters would have you believe that he is being subjected to unprecedented and unfair scrutiny. That assertion is completely false.
Ben Carson’s campaign now admits that he fabricated a key portion of his biography.
He definitely wouldn’t appreciate it, but in some sense you can thank Robert Bork for the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges.
The Supreme Court accepted a case that will require the Justices to decide just what it meant when it established the “one person, one vote” rule for drawing legislative districts.