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President Trump announced on Saturday that he would extend deportation protections for some undocumented immigrants in exchange for $5.7... Read More
His remarks Saturday will mark an attempt to reopen negotiations to end the 29-day impasse. Read More
Florida's youngest ever governor is a news juggernaut. Read More
She doesn't deserve to be lauded as millennials' feminist icon. Her incompetence with numbers and jumbled facts prove she's anything but. Read More
Media and Democrats wrongly rushed to judgment on BuzzFeed report claiming Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. Read More
His campaign was a marketing venture. That’s why he didn’t want to put business on hold. Read More
Bias is as American as apple pie. Read More
I ran into a senior Democrat in the US House of Representatives while traveling Thursday night. After introducing myself and telling this... Read More
I’ve changed my mind about building a wall along the Mexican border. Build it! Read More
The partial government shutdown is beginning to drag on President Trump’s approval rating, which is at its lowest point in months. Read More
Democrats are fooling themselves if they think anyone other than the 44th president can generate the massive minority and youth turnout they... Read More
For the first time, however, I am starting to panic. For months I’ve been analyzing the voting and political patterns of younger... Read More
The energy and hunger the Women’s March helped shape has already born fruit, and if the enthusiasm around all the new women recently... Read More
Science has left Roe behind, but some Americans are still beholden to the 'musty' legal decision. Read More
Nothing! History is full of Supreme Court justices who were incapacitated - or worse. That's the price of life tenure, and it's worth paying. Read More
A distinguishing, precedent-breaking characteristic of President Trump’s trade policy is its focus on the trade balanc Read More
Every day, it seems, brings another load of disturbing information about President Donald Trump's interactions with Russian President... Read More
Tucker Carlson delivered a monologue Tuesday night on how no one is allowed to question NATO because the ruling class likes things the way... Read More
As we watch Britain going through the paroxysms relating to Brexit, it is easy to view its decision to leave the European Union as an act of... Read More
Cameron didn’t believe Britain would vote to leave and even after they did, Europe didn’t believe the British were serious. Read More
On October 19, 2017, astronomers at the University of Hawaii spotted a strange object travelling through our solar system, which they later... Read More
The government shutdown is now in its fourth week, with no end in sight because our leaders in Washington don't seem to want an end that... 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
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
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he’ll be making a “major announcement” on the government shutdown and the southern border on Saturday afternoon as the standstill over his border wall continues into its fifth week. Democrats are now proposing hundreds of millions of dollars for new immigration judges and improvements to ports of entry from Mexico but nothing fo Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to broker a deal to coax the North to give up its nuclear program, the White House announced Friday.News of a second meeting with the reclusive North Korean leader came after Trump met at the White House for 90 minutes with a North Korean envoy, Kim Yong Chol, who had traveled to Wa 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