OPINION The Supreme Court's stay should concentrate minds in both the judiciary and the media on the loss of objectivity in analysis over the... Read More
The Supreme Court did reinstate a narrower version of the order. But the White House could easily lose in the end. Read More
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today warned lawmakers that 15 million people will lose medical coverage next year if the Senate GOP's... Read More
Every Wednesday afternoon, in a windowless conference room in an office building at the tip of lower Manhattan, David Pecker decides what... Read More
The experiment has hurt low-wage workers, cutting their earnings by $125 a month. Read More
How much of a surprise was the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate’s super-secret health-care bill, which Mitch McConnell, the... Read More
Individual markets across the country have evaporated or are rapidly moving towards a death spiral. Tragically, in Wisconsin we aren’t... Read More
One of the little-told stories of the 2016 election was Donald Trump’s 28 percent take of the Hispanic vote, besting Mitt... Read More
Everybody seems to hate the Senate health care bill, which was created by 13 Republican men meeting behind closed doors. Of course, a lot of... Read More
The special election in Georgia between Karen Handel and Jon Ossoff resembles that of last November in one important respect: The sizable... Read More
Ever since Donald Trump signed the first executive order banning people from seven countries from entering the U.S. on January 27, it's been... Read More
Starting this Thursday, citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen will be banned from the United States unless they can... Read More
This has become a narrative about nothing ... Read More
As President Donald Trump continues to mouth off about the Russia investigation on Twitter—he recently admitted that he’s the... Read More
To see where Justice Neil Gorsuch might fit on the Supreme Court, watch the company he keeps. Gorsuch has already paired up four times with... Read More
I.Lives of babies as we tend to think of them have a path, an aim that they are ultimately directed toward: a telos. The term comes to us... Read More
Roughly 80%of us now live in states either partially or totally controlled by Republicans. Two-thirds of our nation’s governors are now... Read More
For congressional Republicans in the new norm of the Trump presidency, nothing is easy, and... Read More
Republican Sen. Charles Grassley's accusation that Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer lied about President Trump and the Russia... Read More
“Let others wallow in Watergate, we are going to do our job,” said Richard Nixon with typical unearned self-righteousness in July... Read More
Did the president act ‘corruptly’? Not from what we know—but then neither did the accounting firm. Read More
It is infuriatingly easy to imagine Senate Republicans passing legislation that throws millions of people off of their health plans to... Read More
About five dozen demonstrators showed up at Reagan National Airport, chanting loudly and hoisting signs that read “Don’t Take... Read More
Speaking at a rally for his wife’s presidential campaign last year, Bill Clinton called Obamacare “the craziest thing in the... Read More
In 1967, 95 percent of “prime-age” men between the ages of 25 and 54 worked. During the Great Recession, though, the share of... Read More
On Monday, November 7, 2016, I made what I thought were the final edits to the manuscript of my latest book, The New Urban Crisis, and sent... Read More
The strategy was simple. A demographic wave—long-building, still-building—would carry the party to victory, and liberalism to... Read More
In 2016, many reluctantly concluded that Trump, despite manifest flaws and eclectic priorities, was more likely than Hillary Clinton to... Read More
Hollywood. A place where rich, beautiful, and famous people mobilize positive social change. At least, that's the belief of many Hollywood... Read More
Let’s look on the bright side: The spectacle of ireful Donald Trump supporters disrupting Shakespeare in the Park’s production of... Read More
Our two nations stand as mutually reinforcing engines of growth and innovation. Read More
After being briefed for nearly a year now on unanimous intelligence reports regarding Russia’s assault on the 2016 campaign, Trump... Read More
ON FEBRUARY 27, Sen. Ben Sasse spent about forty-two minutes reading George Washington’s Farewell Address on the Senate floor, an... Read More
America moved a half-step closer to replacing ObamaCare this week with Sen. Mitch McConnell's release of his draft reform bill. Senate... Read More
Comments from GOP leaders make clear that Republicans would slash tax rates but not improve the system. Read More
If you stay long enough in Washington, you become a symbol, a totem. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been in Congress since Ronald... Read More
Gov. Bruce Rauner signs a bill increasing sentences on repeat gun offenders. It is one step in the right direction of addressing gun violence. Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pass or fail, there will be one man singularly responsible for the fate of health care legislation in the Senate: Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.The shrewd Kentuckian has made himself practically the sole arbiter of the bill and will be largely responsible for the outcome, whether it's a win, a loss, or a win that turns into a loss over time as unpopular consequences of the le Read More
If you were to ask nearly any political analyst or forecaster which Democratic senators are most vulnerable in 2018, Heidi Heitkamp would almost certainly be on their lists. The North Dakota lawmaker, elected by a narrow margin in 2012, has been performing a delicate balancing act: trying to work well with her co-partisans while keeping the electorate of her heavily Republican home state happy. So Read More
Donald Trump's presidency has galvanized Democrats in a way their own leaders have been unable to do, a phenomenon that masked persistent party divisions. But four straight special election losses, culminating Tuesday in Georgia's 6th Congressional District, have again exposed those fracture lines and other flaws. Read More
