Senate Cancels Vote On Graham-Cassidy Health Care Reform Bill
What was essentially the final effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is officially dead.
What was essentially the final effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is officially dead.
The ‘No Labels’ movement is back, and it’s as irrelevant to contemporary politics as ever.
Senate Republicans are considering one more last-ditch effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.
Americans support allowing Dreamers to stay in the country, and most of them also support allowing them to eventually become citizens.
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.
Despite pleas from conservative lawmakers, the Dept. of Justice will not reopen the case against former I.R.S. official Lois Lerner.
Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats on spending and the debt ceiling, but it was an exceedingly bad one.
Two polls find that most Americans support letting DACA beneficiaries to stay in the United States. Will that help move Congress to act?
Donald Trump gave a campaign-style speech in Phoenix last night and reminded us of everything that’s wrong with him.
Seven years of rhetoric on health care reform ended early this morning with a narrow vote on a bill that even Republicans didn’t really support.
The Senate is back from its recess, but no closer to a health care bill that has any realistic chance of passing.
As usual, an attempt to explain congressional behavior brings us back to the issue of our basic institutions. The way we elect congress matters.
Members of Congress and the Senate are once again facing down angry constituents, but it’s unclear whether it will translate into anything substantial in 2018.
Milo Yiannopoulos was a troll and a peddler in offensiveness, but the fact that he became a star on the American right was the result of a transformation of American conservatism that has been entirely unhealthy.
At Congressional town halls across the country, there are signs of what could turn into a movement that would cause real headaches for the GOP in future elections.
A movement motivated by hurt and fear turned into a political force eight years ago. Can another follow suit?
In what seems like a replay of the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, some top Democratic Party leadership positions may be in jeopardy.
Americans are rioting in the streets because they don’t like the outcome of a democratic election.
Defying the odds, Republicans held on in several traditionally Democratic states to keep control of the Senate.
Donald Trump is doing worse with white voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012.
David Brooks thinks American politics “Could get ugly” before the ship gets righted.
As expected, John McCain easily defeated his primary opponent yesterday.
John McCain is bidding for a sixth term in office, with a challenge from the right in tomorrow’s primary and Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November.
George Will isn’t just refusing to vote for Donald Trump, he’s leaving the GOP entirely
The man who was brought in to clean up the I.R.S. after the alleged targeting scandal became public is facing censure and possible impeachment. Proving that there really is such a thing as a thankless job.
Top Republican donors are becoming increasingly concerned that Donald Trump isn’t paying enough attention to raising money for the General Election campaign.
The rise of Trump and Sanders has resurrected a debate as old as Western civilization.
If you think this campaign has been awful, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Donald Trump’s win last night made him the presumptive Republican nominee, whether Republicans will unify around him is another question.
As expected, Donald Trump scored a huge victory in his home state last night and now appears to be back on track to win the GOP nomination.
Two Republicans who broke with their party to support hearings for Judge Merrick Garland have changed their minds and gotten back in line with the Senate GOP Caucus.
Five months after becoming Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan seems to be running into some of the same difficulties that John Boehner did.
Conservatives are doing all they can to make sure Merrick Garland does not get either a hearing or a vote in the Senate, and it’s working.
The alternatives to Trump vs Clinton are getting into the realm of fantasy.
The effort to stop Donald Trump seems likely to set off a civil war inside the Republican Party.
Two new polls show that Americans are basically split equally on the question of who should appoint the Justice that will replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
Ted Cruz won, Marco Rubio surged into a stronger than expected third place, and Donald Trump was humbled just a little bit, but he was hardly a “loser.” The race for the GOP nomination has begun for real.
Many analysts are making the argument that Marco Rubio is the GOP’s best hope to win the General Election in 2016. That may be true, but before he can get there he needs to find a way to win the GOP nomination.
With mere days until voting starts, the possibility of Donald Trump running the table in the February primaries and caucuses, or nearly doing so, is more and more likely.