Kavanaugh Hearings End With Little Doubt On The Outcome Of The Fight
After four days of hearings, the fate of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court seems assured.
After four days of hearings, the fate of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court seems assured.
The first day of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings was much ado about pretty much nothing, but then that can be used to describe a process whose outcome is pretty much foreordained.
Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.
In his final words to his fellow Senators, and to his fellow Americans, Senator John McCain left a legacy, and a challenge.
Throughout the War On Terror, John McCain stood out as a strong moral voice against the use of torture against prisoners. For that he deserves the thanks of a grateful nation.
Another incident involving what clearly seems to be the inappropriate use of force against an African-American man.
We may finally get a ruling applying the Excessive Fine Clause to the states and limiting the ability of police to confiscate property.
Donald Trump said he wishes people would ‘sit up and pay attention’ to him the way they do in North Korea when Kim Jong Un speaks.
President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.
Trump spent much of Tuesday praising a dictator who has murdered and imprisoned millions of people. Then he returned to attacking the democratically elected leader of one of our closest allies.
As expected, Gina Haspel was confirmed as C.I.A. Director yesterday despite her controversial record when it comes to torture.
At least one red state Democrat will be voting against Gina Haspel.
With a third Democrat crossing the aisle to support her, Gina Haspel now has the votes she needs to become the next C.I.A. Director.
The Leader of the Free World is, sadly, enabling atrocities.
The White House isn’t apologizing for an aide who made a joke about John McCain’s most likely terminal illness. That shouldn’t be surprising.
When it comes to the Trump White House, the fish rots from the head down.
Another data point demonstrating that a distinguished military career doesn’t preclude being an awful human being or a crackpot.
Gina Haspel faced some tough questions from Democrats regarding her role in the C.I.A.’s post-9/11 torture programs, but she’s likely to be confirmed anyway.
With the start of her confirmation hearings just days away, Gina Haspel’s nomination to be C.I.A. Director is by no means secure.
Despite facing headwinds in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mike Pompeo will probably be confirmed as the next Secretary of State. That’s unfortunate.
The network’s longtime “strategic analyst” is “ashamed” of his association because they’ve become a “propaganda machine.”
ProPublica has retracted an explosive but erroneous report about the nominee to be the next CIA Director.
The nominations of Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel could be in trouble in the Senate.
By all accounts, Gina Haspel is exceedingly well qualified to be the next C.I.A. Director, but she has a troubling past that the Senate will need to at least force her to answer questions about.
Rex Tillerson was an awful Secretary of State who simply had to go, It’s quite possible his successor will be an even greater disaster.
Nine years later, at least one member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is admitting what seemed at the time a rather obvious fact.
The statute of limitations has expired. But he should never have been asked the question to begin with.
My former home state executes more people per capita than any other state in the union. It has not gotten much better at it.
President Trump continues his war on one of the most important guardians of American democracy.
President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.
Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings begin Monday morning, but it’s Senate Democrats who are in the hot seat.
After a highly contentious nomination process, Jeff Sessions was confirmed last night as the new Attorney General of the United States.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.
After stumbling in Michigan last week, Hillary Clinton picked up a string of solid victories last night that put her one step closer to winning the nomination.
With time running out, the top three candidates for the Republican nomination picked up right where they left off last week.
The President has another plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. It’s as likely to be well-received on Capitol Hill as all of his other previous plans on this issue.
Marco Rubio was the man in the cross hairs in last night’s Republican debate.
After more than three decades, the men and women held hostage in Iran for 444 days will receive at least some compensation.
The no-fly list is a flawed, arbitrary mess that has kept innocent people from flying for years. Using it to deny people rights recognized by the Constitution is, quite honestly, insane.
In a new book, former President George H.W. Bush is highly critical of two of his son’s closest advisers in the White House.
Lindsey Graham recently retired as a colonel in the Air Force Reserves after 33 years of service. He missed most of the last twenty.
Many of America’s top law firms have declined to accept cases defending bans on same-sex marriage, and that’s okay.
A tale of Kafkaesque torture by Comcast Customer Service reveals that the person who really made the mistakes here was the homeowner.
President George W. Bush had a running battle with the CIA throughout his eight years in office. Now, they’ve given him an award.