It would be a golden opportunity to make his case for a border wall. Read More
Pelosi understands the role she plays as a check on an out-of-control presidency, and this is only the first of many times we will see her... Read More
Let's look at a case study in Justice Department and news media bias: the treatment of President Trump compared with the treatment of... Read More
Good defense lawyers constantly survey the landscape to determine what can be credibly denied and what cannot. Read More
Trump received 10 personal updates from Michael Cohen and encouraged a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin. Read More
Today a PolitiFact fact check caught my eye: “Mike Pence wrong that ISIS has been defeated.” Assigned a rating of “Mostly... Read More
Most Americans think abortion is totally fine during the first trimester, up until about 13 weeks. But do they know that babies develop arms... Read More
When hundreds of thousands of American families’ well-being and survival hang in the balance, the GOP chooses only to make a political... Read More
Tony Evers, the new governor in Wisconsin, has made no secret of his hostility to school choice. Read More
In some states, politicians are actually trying to do their jobs. Read More
Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper was asked this past fall whether Ohio was becoming a reliably red state. “This November... Read More
Regardless of whether Trump ends up making a speech on Capitol Hill on January 29th, the state of the union is not strong, and everyone knows... Read More
Everybody of consequence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department understood fully in the middle of 2016—as the... Read More
It’s not about drugs or crime. It’s about the government’s failure to adapt to an influx of asylum seekers. Read More
Out of this absolutism has come Pelosi’s recalcitrance during the shutdown. She claims the moral high ground, but for whom? Americans? Read More
This is Beto O'Rourke's navel-gazing, self-involved, rollout of a possible rollout of a possible presidential campaign. Read More
The perception of Trump's vulnerability is contributing to an unpredictable, grueling, and possibly self-defeating primary among up to... Read More
It should not be this difficult to condemn hate speech. Until national leaders get it right, local marches will carry the mission forward. Read More
It’s January during the Trump years, which means it’s time to talk about the fractured Women’s March. Read More
For more than a decade, the annual Marist poll on abortion has found that the overwhelming majority of Americans – usually... Read More
The possibility that any president of the United States would seriously consider withdrawing the U.S. from NATO, thereby killing the... Read More
The time is ripe for a strategic review of these war guarantees to fight a nuclear-armed Russia in defense of countries across the length of... Read More
MPs are foiling democracy by fighting about how to scupper referendum result. Read More
Among the forgotten and ignored laws revived during the Trump era such as the Logan Act and “emoluments clause," none has been used... Read More
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is driving President Trump nuts -- a very short drive indeed -- by doing something he simply cannot abide: She's... Read More
President Trump should accept Nancy Pelosi's State of the Union offer, skip town and hold a giant event in the middle of America. Read More
Countries around the world are making it easier to choose the time and manner of your death. But doctors in the world’s euthanasia... Read More
Christian schools having moral codes is not news. Read More
- CITING security concerns, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked President Trump to postpone his State of the Union speech, scheduled for... Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — She imperiled his State of the Union address. He denied her a plane to visit troops abroad.The shutdown battle between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is playing out as a surreal game of constitutional brinkmanship, with both flexing political powers from opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue as the negotiations to end the monthlong partial government s Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving to protect the U.S. from advanced missile threats from China and Russia, President Donald Trump on Thursday laid out plans for a new array of space-based sensors and other high-tech systems designed to more quickly detect and defeat attacks.Trump, in a speech at the Pentagon, declared that space is the new warfighting domain. And he vowed that the U.S. will develop a Read More
For more than a decade, the annual Marist poll on abortion has found that the overwhelming majority of Americans – usually three-quarters or more – want abortion restricted to, at most, the first three months of pregnancy.Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, this annual survey has also highlighted the following fact: Using polling questions that measure the labels Americans choose for Read More
