The GOP’s effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act appears to suffer a fatal blow as Senator John McCain announced his opposition to what is the last gasp of that effort in the Senate.
Senate Republicans have ten days to act on their last-ditch attempt to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare, and it’s not at all clear if they have the votes to do so.
The ‘No Labels’ movement is back, and it’s as irrelevant to contemporary politics as ever.
Some more interesting post-election commentary from Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton has found another group to blame for her loss, educated white married women in suburbia.
Republicans will introduce a tax package by the end of the month, but whether they can actually pass anything is another question entirely.
Americans support allowing Dreamers to stay in the country, and most of them also support allowing them to eventually become citizens.
Republicans on Capitol Hill and elsewhere were gambling when they lined up behind Donald Trump. So far, they’ve lost.
Steve Bannon may be out of the White House, but his efforts to continue pushing President Trump, and the Republican Party, even further to the populist far-right continues.
For the second time this year, there are rumors that Mitt Romney could run for Senator from Utah if Orrin Hatch decides to retire.
Despite pleas from conservative lawmakers, the Dept. of Justice will not reopen the case against former I.R.S. official Lois Lerner.
Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia, has come out against the most recent immigration-related action by the national leader of his party.
The effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is dead for now.
Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats on spending and the debt ceiling, but it was an exceedingly bad one.
We’re a long way away from the start of the 2020 election cycle, but Democrats are already maneuvering for support and money.
A key step in the Colombian peace process.
While the rest of us have been distracted by a hurricane in Texas, Robert Mueller’s investigation continues moving forward.
A Federal Appeals Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Gary Johnson and Jill Stein regarding their exclusion from Presidential debates.
President Trump’s attempts to interfere in the administration of justice go beyond the Russia investigation.
A race for the Virginia House of Delegates straight out of a civics book.
Texas suffers another legal setback in its effort to pass a Voter ID law.
They may both be Republicans, but the relationship between the President and the Senate Majority Leader is bad and seems to be getting worse.
Three new polls show Trump’s job approval down significantly in the three states that put him over the top in the Electoral College last year.
President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.
Republicans now face a stark choice.
Donald Trump’s core supporters in the Republican Party remain intensely loyal, and that seems unlikely to change.
After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.
Ignorance of history and process is a hallmark 17th Amendment repeal arguments.
Big developments in the Russia investigation that could start making President Trump deeply uncomfortable.
A new study shows that Baby Boomers no longer account for the largest segment of voters in the United States.
Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.
A Duke history professor uncovers “stealth plan” by “fifth columnists” who are seeking to overthrow democracy in the U.S. for their plutocrat masters.
Is there anyone in the Trump Administration or family who hasn’t held undisclosed meetings with Russians?
With the defection of two more Senators, the latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act has gone down in flames.
Another failed attempt to demonstrate the problems of voter fraud in the US.
Thoughts on the quality of our democracy.
After seven years that mostly consisted of losing elections, there’s a battle going on over which direction the party should head.
Justice Kennedy is telling prospective law clerks for the term that beings in October 2018 that he is considering retiring at the end of the term that begins this October.
More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.
Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.
In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.
The political party formed by French President Emmanuel Macron just about a year ago scored big wins in yesterday’s first round of legislative elections.
