Opinion · 116th Congress
8 things I wish I’d known when I worked on Capitol Hill
The less obvious wisdom only comes with experience, so here it is: 1.
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Opinion · 116th Congress
Congress is crawling with rich kids. I should know, I was one of them
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Opinion · 116th Congress
If Trump won’t fight white supremacist terrorists, these people will
Trump: McCain got the funeral he wanted, and I ‘didn’t get a thank you’ [jwp-video n=”1″] In a White House Rose Garden press conference this week, it was a mutual admiration society between
Opinion · 116th Congress
This isn’t Nancy Pelosi’s first impeachment rodeo
Explaining time off in the House and Senate [jwp-video n=”1″] In 2018 exit polls, 39 percent favored impeaching Trump, while 56 percent did not, an important result given how large the overall
Opinion · 116th Congress
There are at least eight accountants in Congress. Maybe they can pop the debt balloon
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Opinion · 116th Congress
Facebook’s awkward election sauce — too toxic for 2020?
Watch: Six experts tell Senate committee what’s what on data privacy [jwp-video n=”1″] At the first GOP debate in Cleveland in August 2015, Fox News delivered a masterpiece of political theater
Opinion · 116th Congress
Trump’s latest self-inflicted wound: Medicare cuts
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Opinion · 116th Congress
How big and little lies, plus cash, prop up the ‘American dream’
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Opinion · 116th Congress
The capitalism vs. socialism debate: Bring it on
The latest survey by Winning the Issues (Feb. 28-March 1) asked people to choose which economic system — capitalism or socialism — was “better,” repeating a question asked last April as well.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Democrats get their very own tea party after all
Instead of doing a victory lap to celebrate last week’s passage of HR 1, Democrats’ signature anticorruption legislation, House leadership was feverishly writing and rewording a resolution against hate
Congress · 116th Congress
Democrats try to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
Flashback: Green New Deal sounds like a ‘high school term paper that got a low mark,’ Trump says [jwp-video n=”1″] The recipe for victory The Democrats’ winning strategy for 2020 ought to
Opinion · 116th Congress
With both parties awash with cash, maybe campaign reform isn’t so quixotic
That’s a problem that HR 1 tries to fix.
Opinion · 116th Congress
A half-century after Selma, the ‘black friend’ defense is going strong
ICYMI: Meadows and Tlaib clash over insinuations of racism [jwp-video n=”1″] If GOP Rep.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Unpacking the Democrats’ jam-packed primary
Flashback: Green New Deal sounds like a ‘high school term paper that got a low mark,’ Trump says [jwp-video n=”1″] What are presidential candidates, especially those in Congress, to do as
Opinion · 116th Congress
As the “X Date” looms, it’s time to defang the debt limit
This time around, prolonged negotiations seem all too likely, with the austere sequester caps on defense and domestic discretionary funding set to kick back in on Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year
Opinion · 116th Congress
GOP greets North Carolina election scandal with crickets, excuses and misdirection
Also watch: What race ratings really mean and how we create them [jwp-video n=”1″] A question of priorities So why do Republicans rush to pass laws to prevent ineligible voters showing up
Opinion · 116th Congress
After decades of taxing the rich, the ‘Big Blues’ face the music
New York came in at No. 1 with the highest tax burden in the country — 13.04 percent.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Michael Cohen proves that a bad person can be a good witness
Despite Trump’s many denials that he knew about the hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, Cohen brought with him an Aug. 1, 2017, $35,000 reimbursement check signed with the president’s characteristic
Opinion · 116th Congress
Senators running for president: This gun bill is your first major test
That lobby has poured over $1 million into the campaign coffers of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, ensuring that he will prevent the the world’s most deliberative body from even debating
Opinion · 116th Congress
The perils of investigating a complete buffoon
Watch Trump blast former fixer Michael Cohen [jwp-video n=”1″] The first test comes Wednesday, when former Trump fixer Michael Cohen will testify in front of the House Oversight and Reform