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Media overreacts to the Sanders victory all the polls predicted.

Our intelligence professionals are issuing a familiar warning.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

The obsession over a singular winner ultimately makes no sense.

The caucus tallies are so riddled with errors that the DNC is calling for a recount.

The media coverage continues on script.

The State of the Union is petulant.

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

How Iowa works.

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Our measures for preventing abuse of our social welfare system are preventing those who need it most go without.

Huh. Someone might want to look into this.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

The Republicans are playing a different game.

The paper of record endorsed both Warren and Klobuchar

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

Dennis Prager makes me feel like we are living in the Upside Down.

Rules for covering the Senate trial highlight changes in how we get the news.

More on Rudy’s actions in Ukraine

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

The assassination of a top Iranian official on a visit to Baghdad is having the expected negative impact on our relationship with Iraq and the fight against ISIS.

Despite Pompeo’s assurances, we are already seeing consequences for the Suleimani killing.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

More evidence that Trump really doesn’t know what he is doing. (Or just doesn’t care).

It’s been quite a year, and quite a decade.

Amid protests over American airstrikes, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a target.

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

The truth is that many voters are paying attention to issues that have nothing to do with impeachment or simply ignoring politics altogether.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison gets a lesson in governing the hard way.

A much smaller debate stage led to a much better debate last night.

What lessons are there for the United States in general, and Democrats in particular, in last weeks British election?

The Hallmark Channel caved to the complaints of a small group of so-called Christians who objected to a television commercial.

President Trump is reportedly considering boycotting the General Election debates next fall.

Boris Johnson and the British Conservative Party scored a huge win in yesterday’s General Election, while Labour walked away with its biggest defeat in a generation.

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

A sad day for those of us who grew up watching Big Bird, Kermit, and the rest of the Muppets.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

November saw much higher jobs growth than economic analysts were expecting, but it could just be a statistical blip.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

With the clock ticking down to the end of the year and a deadline imposed by the DPRK on talks with the U.S., the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy is in a shambles.

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

Kamala Harris’s once-promising campaign is nearing the end whether the candidate or her supporters wish to admit it or not.

The Butterball Turkey Hotline still thrives even in the era of the Internet.