News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.
Fourteen months into his presidency, he has no idea how the federal budget works.
Best known as a television host, he served in the Reagan administration and chief economist of Bear Stearns.
Just three weeks after their home was hit by a devastating storm, Donald Trump is attacking Puerto Ricans for not recovering from the storm sooner.
Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats on spending and the debt ceiling, but it was an exceedingly bad one.
New reports of Trump’s business ties to Russia are raising eyebrows.
No wonder they wrote it in secret and want to move quickly to a vote…
Puerto Rican voters voted overwhelmingly for statehood yesterday in a referendum whose legitimacy is being questioned due to boycotts by opposition parties.
For the fifth time in fifty years, Puerto Ricans will vote tomorrow on a referendum on statehood, but it’s not likely to have any impact on the island’s current status.
Rachel Maddow hyped the fact that she had obtained a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return last night. It turned out to be much ado about nothing.
Health care policy analysts seem united in their assessment of the House GOP’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and it’s overwhelmingly negative.
The story about the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia didn’t start with Michael Flynn, and it isn’t going to end with his resignation.
Canada is phasing out coal as a source of electricity production by 2030. The same thing will happen in the United States no matter how much politicians try to stop it.
America’s newspaper of records has published three pages of stolen tax documents from 1995.
Trump had a much lower bar than Clinton going in. Neither cleared it.
Thanks largely to the fact that she has moved left on coal, Hillary Clinton seems likely to lose today’s West Virginia primary. But it will have only a minimal impact on Clinton’s quest for a delegate majority.
Both Donald Trump and Ohio Governor John Kasich face big tests in tomorrow’s Michigan primary.
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz landed some punches on Donald Trump last night, but it’s doubtful that they changed the nature of the race.
The final spending bill for the 2016 Fiscal Year sailed through Congress today, marking the end of a very successful first two months in office for Speaker Paul Ryan
Last night’s debate in Wisconsin was arguably the most substantive we’ve seen so far between the Republican candidates, and one that displayed quite starkly the policy differences between them.
“Fiscal conservative” Scott Walker is handing Wisconsin taxpayers a $400 million bill for a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks.
A company you probably thought had died off years ago filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday.
In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.
Lee Siegel takes to the NYT to explain “Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans.”
House Republicans are set to vote on a bill banning abortion in almost all cases after twenty weeks. What they can’t do is explain where the Constitution gives Congress the power to do this.
Even the most ideologically divided members of the Supreme Court agree with each other 65% of the time.
The First Amendment protects government employees who testify truthfully.
TNR makes the worst possible case for a proposition that’s almost certainly right.
General Motors is headed back to court.
As Sarah Palin and the Tea Party turn on Paul Ryan, they are making apparent their own lack of relevance in the political process.
Can you still buy batteries there, though?
Demand for mid-range goods and services seems to be on the decline.
Republican leaders continue to say stupid things. They may still retake the Senate in November.
Seven years ago, Steve Jobs showed us that we could literally hold the world in the palm of our hand.
The false choice that is rampant in drug warrior thinking is the main problem when it comes to good policy.
Chief Justice Roberts is sounding the alarm over deep cuts to the public defender program.
For a guy who just bought a newspaper, Jeff Bezos wasn’t too optimistic about their future less than a year ago.
One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.
Detroit is bankrupt, but that isn’t stopping the Red Wings from getting $400 million in taxpayer subsidies for their new stadium.
Just as the auto industry has, painfully, had to learn to adapt to a new world, the city will as well even if that means becoming a shadow of its former self.
In a move that was perhaps inevitable, the City of Detroit has filed for Bankruptcy Court protection.
Don’t blame “secret courts” for the government’s expanded spying on American citizens and allies.
