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Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel over the weekend has made plain the fact that the foreign affairs challenges facing the...
The hyper-partisanship that has infected our politics, biased the media (especially social media) and eroded the confidence of the electorate is the...
As President Joe Biden heads west this week, with stops in battleground states Arizona and Nevada, it appears that he will once again be singing from...
Given the number of State of the Union speeches President Joe Biden has likely endured over his 50 years in Washington, one might have expected to see...
Noted federal judge and civil rights leader William Hastie once described the essence of democracy as an “eternal struggle.” This week, the...
Unless something unexpected happens, Donald Trump’s win in South Carolina last Saturday all but ensures his nomination to head the Republican ticket...
There’s an old song that goes “Everything old is new again.” That’s a pretty good description of the 2024 election battle for the U.S. Senate...
The country is in the doldrums, divided as a people and unhappy with their leaders and their politics on both sides. The negativity of the electorate...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen offered a rare moment of Biden administration transparency on the economy this week. “Well, I think most Americans...
If the results of the New Hampshire primary tell us anything, it is that the Republican Party is facing a divide between the two key voter groups it...
Former President Donald Trump had a very positive night in the Iowa caucuses. He received 51 percent of the vote and won by a margin of 30 percent,...
Are the Iowa and New Hampshire presidential primary contests reliable predictors of political outcomes or are they proving grounds that give liftoff...
This year brought the best of times and the worst of times for congressional Republicans, but at least they can take some solace that they didn’t...
With just a little over six weeks until the 2024 Iowa caucuses, rumblings about possible third-party or independent entrants into the presidential...
“Republicans underperform – again.” This headline could have been written the morning after the last four elections and a raft of special...
In politics, they say you can’t beat somebody with nobody. Monday’s New York Times-Siena College poll may have proved otherwise. The Times’...
“When a lot of people, unfortunately, were voting, to have a 270, 280 Republican House, I was praying each evening for a small majority, because I...
By the time you read this, we may have a new speaker of the House because, for Republicans and all Americans, there’s a real need to get back to the...
There are moments of sorrow in everyone’s life that provide a certain clarity to what we believe is important and meaningful: the death of one’s...
The Washington Post and ABC News released a new survey this week that showed Donald Trump leading President Joe Biden by 10 percentage points among...
Last Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August inflation numbers showing that, year-over-year, inflation increased by 3.7 percent,...
In the movie “Apollo 13,” everybody remembers the moment an oxygen tank explodes putting the spacecraft and the lives of the astronauts at great...
It’s not unusual to see a president inherit a difficult economic challenge not of his own making. Ronald Reagan was handed an economy in free fall....
Dana Perino and Stuart Varney, the Fox anchors who will moderate the next Republican debate later this month, have their work cut out for them. With...