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Eleanor CliftThe Daily Beast |
A father with the power to keep his son out of jail: it shouldn’t be surprising that President Biden used that power even though he said he...
A preemptive pardon is tricky. Rep. Matt Gaetz didn’t get one four years ago, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. According to two Trump White House...
When he was once asked if he would pardon his son, President Joe Biden said no. It’s time for him to rethink that answer. His successor wants to...
Donald Trump’s allies keep saying they want him to stay on message (immigration, inflation, economy) yet the craziness continues, and a significant...
It’s the cool thing to say that a vice presidential debate doesn’t matter in the sense that it has never changed the outcome of an election, and...
The clock is ticking, and Kamala Harris is not yet where she should be in the must win battleground states. For all the joy and energy, she is (to...
The numbers were important because they were so unexpected. Blasted on the front page of the Des Moines Sunday Register, “New Candidates New...
Latching onto RFK Jr. is Donald Trump’s way of edging back into the news cycle after weeks of being sidelined by the Democrats. Never mind that...
There’s no sugarcoating what happened. Pushed out of the race by his own party and mostly out of sight since he withdrew his candidacy, President...
In an election cycle with a sitting vice president suddenly elevated to become her party’s nominee, and a former president, now the challenger,...
The numbers tell the story. In fewer than 5 days, 35,000 people registered to vote, almost all of them (83 percent) between 18 and 34, the demographic...
In less than 24 hours, Democrats went from feeling hopeless to experiencing a renewed sense of hope as money poured in from grassroots donors, party...
The right to access abortion is a core issue for Democrats, and J.D. Vance is on the record supporting a national ban. The Ohio senator won’t be...
Fighting for his political life is a familiar even invigorating role for Joe Biden. He’s been discounted enough times before but to be “pushed...
In every election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe two years ago, voters have turned out in big numbers to protest the decision and restore...
President Joe Biden is routinely attacked, mocked, and ridiculed for his supposed physical and cognitive decline, while other comparable political...
Chaos at the border is the top issue for Republicans, and their likely nominee promises to launch what he calls “the largest domestic deportation...
The calls to step down come from both the left and center—amplified by law professors, scholarly legal journals, and anti-Trump pundits—warning...
Now that we have two presumptive nominees attacking each other at every turn, will they dare to debate? The assumption among the Washington...
A Fifth Circuit ruling upholding a Texas law that requires parental consent for under-age teens to access contraception gives validity to the argument...
She’s waging a valiant fight, keeping hope alive that Republican voters will realize Donald Trump is unfit for office and turn away from him before...
Is Nikki Haley a middle-of-the-road Republican? The kind they used to make before Donald Trump hijacked the GOP and obliterated the traditional...
In the three years since armed insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump and his allies have rewritten history to portray the rioters as...
The Biden campaign is making a big bet on voters waking up to how much President Joe Biden has accomplished, especially how much he has transformed...
For a political party that has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to women, the Republicans most out front challenging the GOP’s Trumpian...
Of all the issues before voters, healthcare remains the holy grail for Democrats. In the last three election cycles, it delivered Democratic victories...