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US President Joe Bidens trip to Israel amidst conflict with Hamas garners mixed reactions and highlights Americas global role. Heres a review

Friday, Sept. 9, 2023 -- Alabama illustrated how contempt for the law -- not to mention for equal representation and basic fairness -- is an animating value in whole swaths of America. Defiance is defining large parts of the country, as represented by so many politicians who feel comfortable only when they are resisting someone elses agenda rather than coming up with their own.

The Manchurian Candidate was apparently more than just a movie. A Russian agent in the employ of one of Putin’s oligarchs was paid millions to run Trump’s campaign and was passing secret campaign information to Russian intelligence that they used to target specific groups of American voters via Face...

Your partys choice? please raise your hand if you would. [ cheers and applause ] >> note the audience reaction. six hands went up in the air. everyone except former governor chris christie and asa hutchinson. as david firestone put it in "the new york times," six candidates apparently would not be bothered to see mr. trump stand on the capitol steps in 2025 and swear an oath to uphold the constitution, no matter if he had been convicted of violating the same constitution by, take your choice, co...

Dominant issue going forward. how is he going to comport himself, and will prsosecutors o to court and try and limit his speech? the more that they do so i think the more it strengthens his hand among those who believe that its a political prosecution because heretofore weve seen that hes benefited with republicans, not a general election strategy, mind you, for the indictments. hes going to keep at it. i think as comments via truth social and what we play from his statement after being arrested...

A Progressive Perspective: Resurrection, Resiliency and Revisionism: Rev. Al Sharpton, Christine Todd Whitman and William Barr

An important budget memo was issued this week celebrating just how far the deficit had fallen over the last five years. But in one of the incongruities that define the political moment, the memo was issued by a Democrat, Senator Patty Murray of Washington, chairwoman of the Budget Committee, not a Republican. The steep decline…

The instant the Supreme Court demolished overall donation limits in April, the money burst forth from the dam. As The Washington Post reported this morning, more than 300 donors immediately wrote checks beyond the old limit of $123,200, adding $11.6 million to the political system that would not have been allowed earlier. And unsurprisingly, twice…

The United States Senate has built up many formal and informal procedures over the past 234 years. A number of them now face withering criticism, especially the filibuster, by which 40 senators can keep any bill from coming up for a vote.