Billionaire and Morehouse College commencement speaker Robert Smith’s announcement that he would personally absolve…
Michigan Rep. Justin Amash recently became the first congressional Republican to say that President Donald Trump had…
Your cartoonishly evil Trump administration thing of the day: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the House…
Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic caucus held a closed-door, no-aides meeting this morning, after a wave of…
Yesterday, the Nevada Senate passed a bill making it the 15th state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. If signed by Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, the compact will have 195 electoral votes. If it ever gets over 270, that’s the end of the Electoral College—finally. Read more
In a new Quinnipiac poll released today, Joe Biden had the largest positive approval rating (+10) out of any candidate. The worst? New York City mayor and apparent ska fan Bill de Blasio, of whom just 8 percent of voters said they approved and 45 percent disapproved. Poor Bill. Read more
After multiple reports on Monday night that several members of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership team were…
One of the most important features of politics in America is the influence of local political machines. Perhaps no…
Lori Lightfoot was sworn in as mayor of Chicago today, which means Rahm Emanuel is finally gone. Nice! I would say “good riddance,” but the much more likely scenario is that I’ll soon be writing about all of the dumb shit he says as a cable news talking head. Read more
Over the past decade or so, the Koch political network, now headed by Charles Koch after his brother David’s…
At some point this week, the Louisiana House of Representatives will take up and undoubtedly pass a version of a…
The Treasury Department rejected House Democrats’ subpoena for Donald Trump’s tax returns today, a thing which I did not know you could do. Looks like this one is headed to court. Read more
After its deeply impactful Against Trump issue, the National Review has decided to give the same treatment to socialism. I look forward to their endorsement of Bernie Sanders around this time next year.
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren put up a detailed policy proposal on…
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Fox Business Network, that bastion of reasoned debate, hosted an hour-long “debate” on the virtues of capitalism and…
The passage and signing of Alabama’s abortion ban this week was met by the rest of the country with despair, as well…
Here’s the chairwoman of the DCCC, the same one who introduced a ban on vendors who work for Democratic primary challengers to incumbents, hosting a fundraiser for a Democrat in a safe district who voted against the Affordable Care Act and is virulently anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ. Very cool!!
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If you thought the Trump administration basically laughing in Democrats’ facing for trying to subpoena top figures…
Last night, Alabama lawmakers gleefully passed a bill that, if signed by Republican Gov. Kay Ivey, will effectively…
On the same night that the Alabama Senate effectively voted to ban abortion, a Senate committee in Rhode Island—a chamber in which Democrats have a 33-5 majority over Republicans—declined to move a bill forward that would enshrine abortion rights into state law. Great job, idiots. Read more