Back in September, when the United Auto Workers went on strike against the big three carmakers, the pundit-Republican chatter was tiresomely predictable: It surely would be Bad for Biden. The president was pushing hard for the conversion to electric cars (to reduce...
Dean Phillips, the little-known House Democrat from suburban Minneapolis who’s officially challenging Joe Biden for the ’24 party nomination (he filed his New Hampshire primary paperwork last Friday), seems to believe that if he barnstorms the nation...
To the surprise of absolutely nobody with a functioning intellect, House Republicans have finally solved their leadership crisis by replacing an election-subverting Trump ass-kisser (Kevin McCarthy) with an election-subverting Trump ass-kissing Christian nationalist...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Sam Rayburn. It’s a nostalgia thing for a guy who’s 62 years dead. “Mr. Sam,” as he was widely known, gripped the House Speaker’s gavel for 17 years, worked with three presidents in both...
By Chris Satullo The horrors that have been unfolding in Israel and Gaza are raising emotions and spawning rough conversations on American campuses and in American workplaces. People are discovering that classmates, co-workers, even friends and relatives, hold views...
