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Ed KilgoreDaily Intelligencer |
When you have a presidential candidate who is struggling to generate enthusiasm in the party base, it’s natural to look for some external...
When you have a presidential candidate who is struggling to generate enthusiasm in the party base, it’s natural to look for some external...
As House Speaker Mike Johnson basked in gushing bipartisan praise for his successful stewardship of a foreign-aid package that included crucial aid to...
There’s a certain snob appeal associated with self-proclaimed political independence from the two major parties. Independents often think of...
There’s a certain snob appeal associated with self-proclaimed political independence from the two major parties. Independents often think of...
People are understandably anxious about Donald Trump repeating some of his more notorious stunts from 2020 after a possible 2024 election loss. These...
After months of speculation on whether Donald Trump would actually go to court on felony criminal charges before facing voters in November, his...
After months of speculation on whether Donald Trump would actually go to court on felony criminal charges before facing voters in November, his...
When the Democratic National Committee chose Chicago as the site of the party’s 2024 national convention a year ago, no one knew incumbent...
When the Democratic National Committee chose Chicago as the site of the party’s 2024 national convention a year ago, no one knew incumbent...
There’s nothing surprising about the disdain with which congressional Republicans hold the Biden administration’s border policies or their...
Partisan polarization has been steadily growing in the U.S. since roughly the 1960s. Ironically, during this time, the complaint that the two parties...
Partisan polarization has been steadily growing in the U.S. since roughly the 1960s. Ironically, during this time, the complaint that the two parties...
To hear the latest version of Donald Trump’s “American carnage” narrative of a country lost without him, you would think law-abiding citizens...
It’s been obvious from the moment Mike Johnson took the Speaker’s gavel that he would not be able to count on the small and shrinking Republican...
In many respects, it was a ho-hum development on Truth Social when Donald Trump posted a video of himself rambling about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last...
In a joint press conference Friday at Mar-a-Lago that seemed designed to give some high-life MAGA protection to the embattled Speaker of the House,...
In a joint press conference Friday at Mar-a-Lago that seemed designed to give some high-life MAGA protection to the embattled Speaker of the House,...
There has been much debate about whether Democrats can succeed in making abortion policy — where they have a big public-opinion advantage — a...
The shocking decision by the Arizona Supreme Court to resuscitate an 1864 law banning virtually all abortions and criminalizing abortion providers set...
The shocking decision by the Arizona Supreme Court to resuscitate an 1864 law banning virtually all abortions and criminalizing abortion providers set...
Joe Biden is continuing his snail-like progress toward a dead heat with Donald Trump in polling this week. The RealClearPolitics polling averages for...
Joe Biden is continuing his snail-like progress toward a dead heat with Donald Trump in polling this week. The RealClearPolitics polling averages for...
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is a very smart man capable of deep insights into a broad array of public concerns. But in a column this week...
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is a very smart man capable of deep insights into a broad array of public concerns. But in a column this week...
A lot of Democrats and perhaps even some Republicans were relieved when the nonpartisan No Labels organization decided against running a presidential...
A lot of Democrats and perhaps even some Republicans were relieved when the nonpartisan No Labels organization decided against running a presidential...
If you listen to a lot of the noise in this raucous election year, the two major parties are in a state of extreme volatility that could lead to...
“Incrementalism” has been a standard feature of anti-abortion activism, both before and since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade . While Roe...
“Incrementalism” has been a standard feature of anti-abortion activism, both before and since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade . While Roe...
In 2020, Joe Biden won four states by a margin of less than 2 percent of the vote: Georgia (0.23 percent), Arizona (0.30 percent), Wisconsin (0.63...
In 2020, Joe Biden won four states by a margin of less than 2 percent of the vote: Georgia (0.23 percent), Arizona (0.30 percent), Wisconsin (0.63...
In the first twenty months after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade , eliminating any federal constitutional right to choose abortion, 16...
In the first twenty months after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade , eliminating any federal constitutional right to choose abortion, 16...
On Monday, Donald Trump gave the Republican Party and its longtime allies in the anti-abortion movement some marching orders. After flirting with...
After veering this way and that and flirting with support for a national 15-week abortion ban (and before that, a 16-week ban), presumptive Republican...
After veering this way and that and flirting with support for a national 15-week abortion ban (and before that, a 16-week ban), presumptive Republican...
With the two major parties matched pretty evenly, it’s not too surprising that margin of control in the House and Senate (at present three seats in...
With the two major parties matched pretty evenly, it’s not too surprising that margin of control in the House and Senate (at present three seats in...
There has been a lot of chatter during the early phases of the 2024 presidential contest about Joe Biden’s struggles to secure support from the...
There has been a lot of chatter during the early phases of the 2024 presidential contest about Joe Biden’s struggles to secure support from the...
With public concerns over the proper U.S. posture toward Israel’s conduct of its war in Gaza rising daily, there’s naturally a lot of curiosity...
Like his defenestrated predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker Mike Johnson is caught in a perpetual squeeze between what’s necessary to keep the...
With public concerns over the proper U.S. posture toward Israel’s conduct of its war in Gaza rising daily, there’s naturally a lot of curiosity...
It’s a little-known fact that states are free to allocate their presidential electoral votes as they wish so long as they respect one-person,...
Donald Trump specifically, and transphobic conservatives generally, made much sport of the International Transgender Day of Visibility coinciding with...
Voters who consider “threats to democracy” a major issue in the 2024 presidential election generally come in two varieties. There are Democrats...