Sexist Coverage of Beto O’Rourke?
Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?
Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?
Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?
The Southern Law Poverty Center has fired its co-founder for vaguely-specified reasons.
Pew has a new study that confirms our basic understanding of “independents.”
Congress is doing its damned job for a change.
Sometimes symbolism is important. This is one of those times.
Minutes after a Federal judge added 43 months to his sentence, New York state prosecutors unsealed an indictment that could yield another 7 years.
Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton makes an argument familiar to OTB readers.
The Democratic Speaker of the House says there will be no charges against the Republican President barring an “overwhelming and bipartisan” consensus.
The woman famous for losing the Georgia governor’s race is eyeing a bigger job.
Beto O’Rourke hasn’t officially said that he’s running for President, but he’s certainly sending all the signals you’d expect from a Presidential candidate.
For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.
The Trump Administration still doesn’t have realistic goals for its negotiations with North Korea.
President Trump will ask for $8.6 billion for his border wall in his Fiscal Year 2020 budget. He’s unlikely to get it.
Why rational discourse seldom changes the minds of some people.
Disgraced former Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore is apparently “seriously considering” running for Senate in 2020.
It’s that time of year again, and once again people are asking if it isn’t time to drop the whole ritual of changing time every six months altogether.
The former Vice President is seen as “just right” by likely Caucus goers.
It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.
More polling evidence that the public does not support Trump’s emergency declaration or his wall.
The relatively light sentence that Paul Manafort received is raising eyebrows. Hopefully it will lead to a long-overdue debate on sentencing reform.
A second Federal Judge has found that the Commerce Department violated the law when it moved to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census form.
Notwithstanding President Trump’s tariffs, America’s trade deficit hit a record level last year.
Paul Manafort walked into court yesterday facing the possibility of 20 years in prison. He came away with a much better outcome.
Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.
Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.
As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.
A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.
The Saudis tortured an American citizen, but the Trump Administration doesn’t care.
In the wake of the failure of the Hanoi Summit to reach any agreement at all, North Korea appears to be returning to old form.
A novel proposal for making SCOTUS appointments more responsive to election outcomes.
For the second time in a week, reports indicate that the President intervened to get a family member a security clearance.
For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.
Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.
It turns out there actually is a crisis on the US-Mexico border.
A new report demonstrates that the relationship between Fox News Channel and the Trump Administration is much closer and more pervasive than previously believed.
We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.
Once again, President Trump gets taken for a sucker by the North Koreans.
Most Americans oppose the President’s use of a national emergency to get funding for his border wall, but don’t expect that to cause him to change his mind.
President Trump’s job approval numbers have recovered from the lows they hit in the wake of the government shutdown.
There appear to be enough votes in the Senate to pass the resolution disapproving President Trump’s border wall “emergency,” but there’s not enough Republican support to override an expected veto.