Politics

The writing was on the wall last month when only 4 Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee voted against the NDAA. The defense funding bill was doomed to fail as Republicans put forward legislation that called for $1.15 […]

There was a line of thinking at one time that Donald Trump’s policy reversals were part of a calculated strategy to keep the world off guard. Trump was an unpredictable wild card, his allies said, claiming that the president’s behavior

Somebody else is always going to pay for it. During his first campaign, Trump promised that Mexico would pay for the border wall. Mexico did not pay for the border wall. The American taxpayers paid for what little bit of

The idea that a sitting president could sue their own administration and negotiate a settlement using taxpayer money with themselves was always fundamentally undemocratic and absurd. Presidents can’t negotiate with themselves, but that is what Trump did to arrive at

The corporate media’s reaction to the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) overnight has not been to reflect on a complicated political legacy, which isn’t complicated upon examination, but it has been to give Graham what he always wanted.

Trump just had a physical in May at Walter Reed, where he took a cognitive test. The test in May was his fourth cognitive test in less than four years. Trump has now been dementia screened four more times than

Maybe the key to Graham Platner’s popularity was that he was running against Susan Collins? When she was a candidate, Gov. Janet Mills was running even with Collins. When Graham Platner became the party’s Senate nominee, he was either tied

On a day when Donald Trump claimed that America is at war with the Islamic Republic of Japan and kept referring to Zelenskyy as Putin during their meeting, the mentally failing president closed out his NATO misadventure by stumbling into

Remember, almost a decade ago, when Trump would meet with NATO allies and bluster and bully? Those days are long, long gone. Donald Trump of 2026 increasingly looks like a lost old man rather than the president of the most

Progressives have been championing a theory of candidate recruitment that, at its core, believes that the key to winning back white working class voters, especially in red areas, is to run candidates from the working class. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)