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![]() Jennifer RubinChicago Tribune |
“Winning” the impeachment trial means removing any reasonable doubt in the minds of Americans that President Donald Trump incited a riot, that he...
Violent rioters, egged on by the president of the United States, breached the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, causing members and staff to flee or...
When President Trump allegedly tried firing special prosecutor Robert S. Mueller III, refused to respond to lawful subpoenas during the investigation...
President-elect (how nice it is to say that!) Joe Biden is right: It is time to move forward and recover our national bearings. No one should be...
President Trump, days after losing the presidency by millions of votes and by a significant margin in the electoral college, still cannot admit he...
Foreign policy got rather limited attention during the campaign, but from his decades in public life, we know President-elect Joe Biden believes in...
Democrats are second to none when it comes to self-recriminations and infighting — even when they win. Republicans are second to none in lack of...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and other Republicans perpetuating false claims about ballot fraud or misconduct help feed the narrative that the election of...
Republicans’ civil war is well underway. President Trump, his sons, MAGA types such as Matt Schlapp, self-promoters and ex-officials such as Ric...
The greatest challenge to our democracy is not that we hold deeply polarized beliefs, but that one party refuses to operate in a fact-based world that...
We remain a country deeply divided by race, culture and religion. We were before President Trump came along, and we will be so after he leaves office....
If there had been concern that a Democratic sweep of both houses of Congress and the White House would provoke overreach and further weakening of...
If Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden holds on to slim leads in Nevada and Arizona (and possibly wins Pennsylvania and Georgia for good...
Officials for Joe Biden’s campaign and independent voting experts have stressed a set of facts that should bolster confidence in the voting process....
It was not the romp Democrats predicted, to put it mildly. Nevertheless, the nightmare of 2016 has not returned. At this point in 2016, Hillary...
There has been much discussion about the need for healing and reconciliation once the vote-counting is complete and results certified. That’s a...
If eight days from now former vice president Joe Biden wins the White House and Democrats secure House and Senate majorities, a plethora of reforms...
The mainstream media have fallen short in covering President Trump in many respects — from playing along as if he were sane and coherent, to...
President Trump’s argument for reelection boils down to this: “I kept the economy humming before I wrecked it, so let me try again.” Voters...
With about 50 million ballots already cast and just 11 more days of voting, the presidential race, as President Trump might put it, “is what it...
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he would create a bipartisan commission to study the Supreme Court and federal...
The good news is that we likely will never be forced to endure another debate featuring President Trump. The better news is that even before the...
Coming into the final presidential debate Thursday night, former vice president Joe Biden holds a commanding lead in national polls and in a...
Former vice president Joe Biden is ahead, according to the FiveThirtyEight poll averages, by about eight points in Michigan, seven points in Wisconsin...
President Trump’s message in the final stretch of the campaign has degenerated into a hodgepodge of attacks against Republican senators and the...
Barring a minor miracle, Republican senators will narrowly vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court next week, just eight days before an...
The Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Monday the topics for Thursday’s debate: fighting covid-19; American families; race in America;...
We should stop calling Nov. 3 “Election Day” and instead to refer to it as “the End of Voting Day.” As of Tuesday, more than 33 million votes...
In the absence of any indication that the presidential race is narrowing, the biggest question among political insiders, activists, pollsters and...
The Presidential Debate Commission announced on Monday the topics for Thursday’s debate: fighting covid-19, American families, race in America,...
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who chose not to run for president, made “the dignity of work” his trademark. Vox reported last year: “Brown says...
The Public Religion Research Institute is out with its 11th edition of the American Values Survey, a multi-faceted polling survey of more than 2,500...
The Post reports on an interview Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) had with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial board: “Cornyn was asked about his...
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) undoubtedly will win reelection. That was never really in doubt. And yet, to get his candid assessment of President Trump, and...
President Trump got boxed around the ears at his NBC town hall Thursday night. Rather than showing up former vice president Joe Biden after refusing a...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), in keeping with his might-makes-right operation of the Supreme Court confirmation...
An array of bipartisan organizations has popped up in response to President Trump’s unrelenting assault on the integrity of the election and his...
I cannot recall the last time Georgia and South Carolina were both in play for Democrats. A Democratic president last won South Carolina in 1976; the...
“Are you saying that you ... refuse to agree with a known fact?” That was the follow-up question Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) asked Amy Coney...
How can you tell President Trump is running one of the worst campaigns in modern political history? This is not a setup for a joke. It requires a...
Lest anyone be uncertain about the value of Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) to the Democratic presidential ticket — even after her error-free...
Republicans are rushing through Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation as millions of voters cast their ballots. The Republican senators who will...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) showed some candor for once. Instead of denying that he wanted to use the Supreme Court to...
President Trump reminded us Monday just how big a threat he poses to millions of Americans — not to mention to the concept of objective truth....
The irony of President Trump’s fearmongering about mail-in ballots is that an unprecedented level of early voting appears to be underway. Close to...
For once, Democrats were organized.
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, who appeared without a mask at the Rose Garden nomination ceremony that probably became a coronavirus...
Democrats should put an end to the Supreme Court confirmation charade. The Republican Party picks a right-wing judge off a list approved by right-wing...