Campaigns · 119th Congress
Eight(ish) California predictions for 2026
A new leader to run the private university would be expected to start July 1 — will they be Trump-friendly, or a fighter?
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Opinion · 119th Congress
A blowout win for Democrats in 2026?
According to a Pew Research Center poll conducted in late November, "Most Americans (66 %) say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage," while only 1
Opinion · 119th Congress
The electorate’s inflation report card: three factors to watch
In 2024, Democrats won independents by 1 point and Republicans won 220 seats. In 2018, Democrats won independents by 12 and Democrats won 235 seats.
Opinion · 119th Congress
There’s no sugarcoating inflation
In 2024, Democrats won independents by 1 point, and Republicans got 220 seats. What would the result be if Democrats won independents by 13? Not a particularly hard math problem.
Congress · 119th Congress
In shutdown deal, bipartisan legislating trumped party unity
government, restoring food stamps to 45 million poor and working-class households that rely on them, avoiding chaos in the nation's air traffic system, unwinding layoffs and providing back pay to more than 1
Opinion · 119th Congress
Are Americans getting comfortable with the unimaginable?
come out of Illinois, where, in one of the latest incidents, a man accused ICE agents of allegedly spraying a chemical substance into his car, affecting members of his U.S. citizen family, including his 1-
Opinion · 119th Congress
This election was the wakeup call Republicans needed for 2026
↵↵Based on exit polls as of Wednesday afternoon, here are five factors that were in play that Republicans need to understand going into the 2026 midterms. 1) Independents↵↵Republicans' loss of independents
Opinion · 118th Congress
Is the American dream for everyone? Just ask Ilhan Omar
House of Representatives should be Exhibit No. 1 in the resilience of the American dream, the tale of someone starting out with little who has risen to the top.
Opinion · 118th Congress
Is Joe Biden out of touch, or is he just cynical?
Both The Washington Post (Jan. 27-Feb. 1) and CBS (Feb. 1-4) have new surveys out with data that clashes with Biden’s rosy view of the state of the union.
Opinion · 117th Congress
It’s about more than one dinner and a man named Trump
the Right” rally and his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol (both of which were graced with Fuentes’ presence), should be a step too far, even for the former president’s No. 1
Opinion · 117th Congress
It was all about the independents, again
Only 1 percent of independent voters rated the economy as “excellent,” while 19 percent called it “good,” 41 percent said “not so good” and another 38 percent said “poor.”
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Traumatized Nancy Pelosi says ‘it’s time for healing.’ But Donald Trump will never allow it
David DePape echoed them after bashing Paul Pelosi’s head, later telling law enforcement officers “he did not leave after Pelosi’s call to 9-1-1 because, much like the American founding fathers with the
Opinion · 117th Congress
The powerful legacy of the Jan. 6 committee
Another Gallup survey found that Americans, by more than a 2-to-1 margin, believed that the Watergate committee was motivated by a desire to “get at facts” rather than to “discredit” Nixon.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
So little Senate floor time left, so many Biden judicial nominees in limbo
Yet another was $1 billion — that’s how much the CR included to help low-income households deal with winter heating bills at a time when natural gas prices are, like seemingly everything else, climbing
Opinion · 117th Congress
The fight over faith in politics: Which faith? Whose values?
Senate with Democrat Cheri Beasley, had a Day 1 conflict — Donald Trump’s Friday rally in Wilmington, N.C.
Opinion · 117th Congress
You can’t ‘pivot away’ from sick stunts and cruelty
Consider how little has been reported on the fate of a 1-month-old baby dropped off in front of the Washington, D.C., residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, courtesy of Abbott.
Opinion · 117th Congress
‘What happened to your country?’: The poisoned well of the Trump era
A few days later, during a Sept. 1 prime-time speech in Philadelphia, Biden called Trump and his MAGA believers a “threat” to the country.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Independents will make or break Biden and the Democrats in November
But in 2020, that margin was reduced to 1. In terms of self-identified ideology, in 2016 the margin of conservatives over liberals was 9 points.
Congress · 117th Congress
Power Rankings: How political players resemble the top college football teams in all the land
Playoff-bound 1. Alabama — Senate Majority Leader Charles E.
Opinion · 117th Congress
A bike, a suit and a dream: How I lost a race for Congress 50 years ago
Mine was a theoretically admirable position, but it caused me to lose Livonia by a 10-to-1 margin. That was the difference — even though I carried Ann Arbor in a landslide.