

Trump Escalates His Trade War Rhetoric With Predictable Results
President Trump is continuing his dangerous and misguided trade war rhetoric,
President Trump is continuing his dangerous and misguided trade war rhetoric,
Mississippi’s Governor has chosen a replacement for Thad Cochran, but the White House isn’t too happy about the pick.
Things are looking good for Democrats in 2018, but there’s some speculation that Nancy Pelosi’s position at the head of the party in the House could be in danger.
Conor Lamb’s win in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District has set off an inevitable debate inside the Democratic Party about how to approach the upcoming midterm elections.
President Trump appeared to change positions on several gun control ideas, but he probably doesn’t mean it.
Report that President Trump considered withdrawing the Gorsuch nomination are another sign of his unhealthy obsession with pledges of loyalty from people who have no business giving it to him.
There are no good outcomes for the GOP in Alabama.
One of the few Republicans willing to speak out against Donald Trump is retiring at the end of his current term.
Former Trump aide Steve Bannon is declaring war on Republicans in the Senate.
Hugh Hefner, who became both a cultural icon and a catalyst and reflector of vast social changes, has died at the age of 91.
Republicans now face a stark choice.
More stupid, irresponsible rhetoric from the President of the United States.
The Senate left for vacation without a viable path forward on health care reform, and the road ahead seems treacherous and hard to navigate.
Puerto Rican voters voted overwhelmingly for statehood yesterday in a referendum whose legitimacy is being questioned due to boycotts by opposition parties.
There seems to be no question that the decision to fire James Comey was motivated largely by the President’s frustrations over the fact that his campaign is under investigation.
More fireworks on the second day of the questioning of Neil Gorsuch, but his confirmation nonetheless seems assured.
Judge Gorsuch isn’t much of a fan of Donald Trump’s comments about the judiciary.
There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.
A speech traditionally used to unite was instead a continuation of a divisive campaign.
Wherein a law professor makes the absurd argument that the Electoral College, which exists pursuant to the Constitution, is unconstitutional.
Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.
A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.
The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.
The death penalty appears to be effectively dead in Delaware thanks to a decision by the State Supreme Court.
Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.
Donald Trump has almost no cash on hand. That doesn’t bode well for his campaign going forward.
The Senate has passed an amendment to a military spending bill that would require women to register for the draft.
Bill Kristol’s plan to stop Donald Trump involves a long shot independent bid for the White House by someone most Americans have never heard of before.
On his trip to Hanoi, President announced the latest sign that the Vietnam War is finally something both nations have manged to put behind them.
Pfizer has become the latest drug maker from barring its products from being used in executions.
With the field before him now clear, Donald Trump is now assured to win the Republican Presidential Nomination. After that, though, his plans don’t seem to make a lot of sense.
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.
Bernie Sanders won the Indiana Primary last night, but Hillary Clinton continues to accrue the delegates she needs to become the Democratic nominee.
Donald Trump’s win last night made him the presumptive Republican nominee, whether Republicans will unify around him is another question.
Another round of victories puts Donald Trump another step closer to the Republican nomination.
Nebraska legislators are talking about abandoning their somewhat unique method of allocating Electoral College votes.
The Supreme Court appeared deadlocked during oral argument in the latest case dealing with the PPACA’s contraceptive coverage mandates.
Looking at the delegate math, Donald Trump’s path to victory seems to be becoming clearer by the day.
The Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma against Colorado’s decision to legalize marijuana.
With Donald Trump inching closer to a delegate majority with each primary, it’s obvious that GOP insiders have no idea how to stop Donald Trump.
Bernie Sanders won two of the three Democratic contests last night, but he fell further behind in the delegate count any way and isn’t very far from being mathematically eliminated.
They haven’t gotten much attention, but there are five contests today as the 2016 nomination process continues to move forward.
It seems increasingly apparent that the only way to stop Donald Trump now is by trying to force a contested convention. It also seems clear that such a plan probably wouldn’t succeed.
February’s Jobs Report was relatively positive, but there are still shadows hovering over the economy as we head further into the year.
As expected, Hillary Clinton won big last night while Bernie Sanders largely floundered, thus going further toward making Clinton’s victory inevitable.
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions became the latest prominent Republican to endorse Donald Trump, but there are a lot more Republicans who are starting to panic over what Trump could do to their party.
The economy is booming. Except where it’s not.