A new poll shows an up-tick in public support for some gun control measures, but gun control advocates can’t ignore the political reality that says those restrictions are unlikely to ever become law.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders may think otherwise, but many Americans do care about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State.
In addition to doing everything she needed to do last night, Hillary Clinton also destroyed whatever logic remained for a Joe Biden candidacy.
With the first Democratic Presidential Debate just hours away, Hillary Clinton got some good polling news from Fox News Channel.
Obama’s first Secretary of State has come out against Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership.
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide, making California the fifth state to legalize the practice and possibly giving real political momentum to the Right To Die movement.
Vice-President Biden will apparently not be at the first Democratic debate, which may be yet another sign that he’s not running for President.
Vice-President Biden continues to rise in the polls even though he has yet to actually enter the race for President.
Hillary Clinton seems to be bouncing back from recent troubles in the latest national poll, but Vice-President Biden is starting to rise in the polls before even getting in the race.
Time is running out for Joe Biden to make a decision about running for President, and it’s still not clear what he’ll do.
California’s legislature has approved a bill that would legalize physician assisted suicide in the nation’s largest state.
Britain’s Labour Party has taken a hard tilt left with the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader.
Bernie Sanders has jumped ahead of Hillary Clinton in the Hawkeye State.
Bernie Sanders continues to cause Hillary Clinton problems, and Joe Biden could cause more if he enters the race.
The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.
The RNC wants Donald Trump to sign an oath that he will not run as a third-party candidate if he doesn’t win the Republican nomination.
A new poll shows Bernie Sanders gaining traction outside of New Hampshire for the first time.
Some of Hillary Clinton’s Democratic opponents are complaining about the DNC’s parsimonious debate schedule.
Another poll shows Bernie Sanders doing will in New Hampshire, but there’s no evidence he’s catching on anywhere else in the country.
Joe Biden may want to run for President, but does anyone else? It doesn’t really seem like it.
A new poll shows Bernie Sanders ahead of Hillary Clinton, but within the margin of error, in New Hampshire. But a deeper examination suggests that Bernie-mentum is a mile wide and an inch deep.
The Iran nuclear deal will probably survive it’s test in Congress in the end, but Chuck Schumer just made the Administration’s job a little more difficult.
Reports are saying that Joe Biden is taking another look at running for the Democratic nomination for President. But would he really do it?
There’s another round of reports about Joe Biden running for President, but I wouldn’t put much stock them.
In the wake of the latest Supreme Court decision, the Affordable Care Act seems to have become even more firmly established than it was before last week, and the prospect of repeal has become even less likely.
Bernie Sanders is closing in the polls, but it still seems as though it doesn’t mean as much as some political pundits will try to tell you it does.
A new poll shows that Hillary Clinton remains largely unstoppable on her quest for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, and she has a pretty clear path to the White House as well.
It’s easier for an American citizen to go to Iran or North Korea than it is for them to go to Cuba, That’s insane.
More Democrats are calling themselves “liberal” than they have in years. Republicans, too.
Two new polls show Bernie Sanders rising in the polls in New Hampshire, but they likely don’t mean anything in the long term.
Lincoln Chafee began his bizarre run for the Presidency in the strangest way possible.
Hillary Clinton remains as much the inevitable Democratic nominee as she always has been.
Martin O’Malley is running for President for some reason.
A new poll shows that nearly seven in ten Americans believe that people who are terminally ill should be allowed to end their lives with the help of a doctor.
Hillary Clinton is a deeply flawed candidate who might not even make a very good President. But that doesn’t matter in the race for the Democratic Nomination, and she’s probably going to be the next President anyway.
Maryland’s former Governor will announce his candidacy for President next week. Don’t expect him to go very far.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have done quite well for themselves of the speaking circuit.
Hillary Clinton told supporters she’d require Supreme Court nominees to pledge to overturn Citizens United, a decision she completely misrepresented.
A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the N.S.A.’s data mining program is illegal, but its ruling may not have a very big impact.
So far at least, there’s little evidence in the polls that Hillary Clinton has been hurt by the news reports about the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.
Bernie Sanders is running for President. He’s not going to win, but he’s not running because he thinks he can win.
The GOP race remains tight, but some candidates have benefited from their entry into the race more than others. Overall, though, Hillary Clinton continues to dominate.
The debate over whether kids need to be vaccinated against communicable diseases baffles me.
With no real opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton has no reason to rush getting into the race.
An American freed from captivity, and potentially huge changes in America’s diplomatic and trade relationship with Cuba.
Another round of election losses is leading Democrats to contemplate the direction they should take going forward.
The Fourth and Fifth Amendments do not prevent the police from compelling you to unlock your phone if you used fingerprint scan technology to lock it, Virginia Judge has ruled.
Despite speculation, both Angus King and Joe Manchin will stay with the Democratic caucus. And that makes sense for both of them.
