Party Trumps Institutional Separation
Don’t expect the Congress (i.e., the Senate) to pull us out of this shutdown mess.
Don’t expect the Congress (i.e., the Senate) to pull us out of this shutdown mess.
Using new radio telescopes, scientists have discovered mysterious new radio bursts that originated from deep in the universe long before life began on Earth.
Border states/districts are not as pro-wall as presidential rhetoric might make you think.
If you’re looking for the biggest obstacle to a resolution to the government shutdown, look no further than President Donald J. Trump.
The firing of Comey raised serious concerns in the Bureau.
Doctors have declared Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cancer free but she is still expected to miss one more week of oral argument as she recovers from her surgery in December.
President Trump appears to be backing away from the idea of declaring a national emergency to get his wall built. But the other options he’s considering aren’t much better.
Federal employees deemed “essential” missed a paycheck yesterday in violation of US labor law.
Two years of Republican control of the Legislative and Executive Branches has put us back on a path toward $1 trillion budget deficits.
California Senator Kamala Harris is set to enter the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination later this month.
The government shutdown has now entered historic territory, and the Trump Administration is moving closer to a “national emergency” or other extra-legal means to get money for his wall.
President Trump is claiming he never said Mexico would directly pay for the wall, except for all those times when he said Mexico would directly pay for the wall.
Carlos Sanchez, who portrayed Juan Valdez the unofficial ambassador of Colombian coffee for some 30 years, has died at the age of 83.
Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.
President Trump stormed out of a meeting with Congressional leaders as the shutdown drags on with no end in sight.
Paul Manafort’s attorneys reveal in a pleading that their client provided insider campaign data to Russian intelligence sources, something that seems an awful lot like collusion.
New polling clearly indicates that the President is losing the battle for public opinion over the government shutdown.
In a move that is likely to have political and international consequences, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has officially severed ties with Moscow.
President Trump’s speech on the border wall and the shutdown was fact-free, misleading, and overall a bomb.
Former Vice-President Joe Biden will reportedly decide on whether or not he’ll be entering the race for President in the near future.
As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are beginning to fear that members in the House and Senate may begin to fall away from supporting the President.
The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of partisan gerrymandering. This time, though, they’re likely to reach the merits of the cases rather than punting like they did last year.
President Trump is claiming that he could use authority to declare a “national emergency” to build his wall even if Congress doesn’t authorize it.
Bernie Sanders is facing questions about sexual harassment from women who worked on his 2016 campaign as he prepares a likely run for President in 2020.
For the first time in her twenty-five years on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing oral argument this morning.
President Trump is offering to change his ‘concrete wall’ with a ‘steel barrier’ in what he apparently things is a compromise.
President Trump is making clear that he doesn’t care how his shutdown is impacting Federal workers.
With Pat Roberts retiring, Kansas Republicans are reportedly looking at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to succeed him.
As the shutdown continues, there’s little sign of progress on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
China has landed a probe on the far side of the Moon, the latest step forward in an aggressive Chinese push into space.
Herb Kelleher, who helped found an airline that revolutionized the industry thanks to his unconventional choices, has died at the age of 87.
Terrorists aren’t walking across the desert to get here. Flying is so much easier.
As the shutdown drags on, the President is digging in his heels even further.
Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is the second Republican to announce his retirement, but his seat should remain safely red.
Several states are getting rid of caucuses in favor of primaries, a move that could be to the disadvantage of candidates like Bernie Sanders.
Former Senator and Denocratic Presidential candidate Jim Webb is reportedly being considered for Defense Secretary.
Washington has become the latest state to ban the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles to persons under 21.
As the shutdown drags on, Mitch McConnell finds himself facing pressure from the White House and from members of his own caucus.
December’s Jobs Report blew past expectations to show more than 300,000 jobs created.
In a late first-day session, Congress passed a series of bills designed to reopen most of the government, but they’re already ‘dead on arrival’ in the Senate.
Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of The House again after eight years out of power, but there’s little time for her to celebrate.
Three and a half years after its flyby of Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft has reached the furthest distant object ever visited by a man-made craft.
One-half of a pop music icon in the 70’s, the Captain has passed away.
Not surprisingly, President Trump significantly accelerated the pace of his lies in 2018.