One week into the Biden presidency, the Democratically controlled Senate is facing its first procedural hurdle.
Despite a raft of executive orders setting him apart from his predecessor, and despite Democrats now holding a narrow congressional majority,...
Donald Trump and his “elite strike force” have failed at overturning the Electoral College-certified election.
Every federal court to which Trump's lawyers have brought legal challenges intended to steal Joe Biden’s victory has backfired.
So that's it,...
As we celebrate and savor President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump, we must also be cognizant that, despite record voter turnout, the 2020 election did not bode as well for Democrats as it could have.
Two years ago, a...
There are 224 state-level ballot-qualified political parties in the United States.
Most are obscure.
Before the 2016 presidential election, third-party candidates did not hold considerable credence.
Yet something happened when Democrat Hillary Clinton squared off against Republican Donald...
When wave elections happen, more often than not seats are basically given away--either because the incumbent party nominates the wrong candidate, or the incumbent party's candidate shoots himself in the foot. The latter may be...
As 2017 draws to a close, those tracking Donald Trump's approval ratings have run out of ways to show just how rotten they are compared with other newly elected presidents. FiveThirtyEight's latest average pegs Trump's...
As of Friday night, Donald Trump's average approval rating, as calculated by FiveThirtyEight, stands at 37.3 percent--far and away the lowest on record for any newly-elected president after 323 days in office. If that sounds...
When Roy Moore upended Luther Strange in the Republican primary for Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat, there were already a number of reasons to be unnerved about the former Alabama chief justice going to Washington....
A lot of people in Donald Trump's administration give the impression that they really aren't qualified to serve at such a high level. But one person in particular leaves people wondering, "What is s/he doing...
On Tuesday, Buzzfeed revealed that in 2015, Congressman John Conyers, the ranking Democrat and former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, reached a settlement with a former staffer who claimed he'd fired her after she...
Ever since becoming White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders has done more than enough to replace Kellyanne Conway as Donald Trump's main peddler of alternative facts. It's gotten to the point that it's more...
The principles of groups like Black Lives Matter are wonderful. For too long, brown people in America have been ignored, denigrated to less than human, marginalized, oppressed, and systemically abused. In recent years, increased instances...
Yes, "Nazi" is a short name for "National Socialist German Workers' Party." They put socialist in the name to draw people away from communism, even though this was a far-right organization. Many people try and...
For the better part of two years, Donald Trump talked about giving the government back to the American people. On the surface, that meant making government more accountable. Well, it looks like the only Republican...
In his last State of the Union address, former President Barack Obama said we need "to change the system to reflect our better selves." On the top of that list was ending gerrymandering. He said:
"We...
A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives would require President Donald Trump to undergo a mental health evaluation to make sure he is stable enough to stay in office.
The bill was introduced by...
This past weekend, House Speaker Paul Ryan got a rather rude surprise. Twitter started lighting up with a hashtag campaign calling for him to resign. As difficult as it is to say considering what we know...
When Donald Trump tapped Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as White House Chief of Staff, it was widely believed that he would bring a heavy dose of discipline to a White House that was severely...
Earlier this spring, Donald Trump created a commission on "election integrity," ostensibly to review concerns about the manner in which elections are conducted. The real purpose, however, soon became apparent--to troll for "proof" that Trump...
For some time, one of the loudest critiques leveled at the Democratic Party is that it really doesn't stand for anything except opposing Donald Trump. This coming week, the Democrats are doing something to change that....
