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Chris Truax, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
New Jersey officials are growing increasingly worried about the now-regular spotting of drones over the state. It's been 10 days since the FBI office...
MAGA Republicans have caught the car of undivided power. If the government now lurches from one pointless crisis to the next, or if Trump’s plans...
As Donald Trump takes a wrecking ball to what is left of our political norms, we need to stop thinking about guardrails of democracy and start...
This election wasn’t about policy. It was about fundamental principles — and voters knew exactly what they were voting for. Or did they?
In 2016, we could all pretend that Trump was an aberration. Not this time. People knew exactly what they were voting for.
We ask the men and women of our military to risk their lives to defend America. Is it so much for you to check a box?
To misquote Maya Angelou, when someone tells you what they are going to do, believe them.
Conservatives should vote for Kamala Harris because she is a pragmatic center-right politician who understands the importance of national security,...
If you had never heard of Vance before, you would have thought this was a thoughtful, moderate politician — not a guy who rants about childless...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Friday morning, as tensions in the Middle East...
Traditional or not, the “courtesy card” system is the rankest form of corruption. That it is institutionalized corruption makes it worse.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is a profile in American courage after taking a stand against Donald Trump.
At long last, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris faced off in a formal presidential debate — how did each candidate perform?
Kamala Harris shouldn’t debate Trump — she should prosecute him in the court of public opinion.
There was none of the finger-wagging and pronoun-obsessing navel-gazing that we’ve all come to associate with progressives at the DNC. The only...
A Harris victory might see off Donald Trump but the next aspiring authoritarian — and there will be one — will be smarter, smoother and more...
In the last 12 days, we’ve seen the birth of something genuinely new: the crowdsourced campaign.
Having a functional Supreme Court is not a political issue any more than having a functioning heart is a lifestyle choice. And while Biden’s current...
It’s been a while since we had one, but positive campaigns can work under the right circumstances. Reagan’s Morning in America campaign theme...
Don’t mistake a lack of public posturing for a lack of action. None of this is over until it’s over.
Condemning violence and pointing out that Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy isn’t just logically consistent. It’s a logical...
Democrats have been too polite to openly criticize their own party’s presumptive nominee. So let’s rip off the scab.
Follow John McCain’s example. Do three 90-minute town halls a week every week for three weeks. At the end of the process, America will know — and...
There is so much wrong with the Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. United States that it’s hard to know where to start.
The panic among Democratic movers and shakers began well before the first commercial break. Can Biden be replaced? Who should replace him?
Put your hand up, everyone (anyone?), if you knew that Biden is pushing one of the biggest and most fundamental changes in asylum rules since, well,...
It’s no secret that Donald Trump wants to remake the presidency in his own image: all powerful and answerable to no one.
This Juneteenth, think about how far we still have to go. But also spare a thought for how far we have come.
Whether the court likes it or not, there is no escaping the politics in Trump’s immunity case. Pretending otherwise is the most political — and...
Hopefully, the Supreme Court will decide to clean its own house. But if it won’t, Congress should.
Donald Trump seems to believe that every trial he loses must be corrupt, just as he believes that every election he loses must be fraudulent.
Donald Trump once said his “gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.” Maybe that works for him in politics, but...
In her new autobiography, Noem tells the story of killing a 14-month-old puppy because it misbehaved. Reaction was swift and unanimous across the...
Jailing an ex and possibly future president would be unprecedented. But these are unprecedented times.
Whether an ex-president ought to be criminally prosecuted by a subsequent administration is practically the definition of a “political question”...
The court was never likely to let the Colorado decision stand and open the door to “chaos.” But if the court is not very careful, it may find...
American military assistance to Ukraine is the most phenomenal bargain in the history of foreign aid. So why are Republicans blocking it?
The American Constitution is just a bunch of words on parchment unless we take those words seriously — especially when we’d rather not.
Guessing how the Supreme Court will handle the political grenade that's been lobbed into their chambers is no easy task.