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Sometimes Voters Just Want Competence

By Froma Harrop
Casualties Of Trump's Trade War

By Steve Chapman
Texas Board Expunges Hillary From History Curriculum

By Matthew Chapman
Shedding Some Light On Dark Money Political Donors

By ProPublica
#EndorseThis: Cory Booker Shares Democrat Strategy For Winning Midterms

By Kurt Boyer

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Sometimes Voters Just Want Competence
In our highly polarized era, we too often judge election results from the confines of partisan politics.
By Froma Harrop
Casualties Of Trump's Trade War
Eighty percent of the world's recreational vehicles are built in and around Elkhart County, Indiana, which voted for Trump by a 2-1 margin.
By Steve Chapman
Texas Board Expunges Hillary From History Curriculum
According to a report in the Dallas Morning News, the Texas State Board of Education on Friday issued a preliminary vote to sharply cut back the social studies curriculum in the state.
By Matthew Chapman
Shedding Some Light On Dark Money Political Donors
Thanks to a good-government group, you can now find out about nearly $763 million in donations to these “dark money” organizations.
By ProPublica
#EndorseThis: Cory Booker Shares Democrat Strategy For Winning Midterms
By Kurt Boyer
On Climate Threat, States Refuse To Surrender
As large parts of America burn or drown under weird weather conditions made more extreme by global warming, California and other states are doggedly pursuing solutions.
By Froma Harrop

Trump Confronts The Enemy Within
Deep in the White House, someone is acting to subvert Donald Trump's policies, thwart his desires and generally sabotage his presidency.
By Steve Chapman
Ex-Mistress Says Former RNC Chair Demanded Abortion
Broidy’s attorneys filed a motion in July to redact parts of Bechard’s complaint that contain explosive allegations against him. A judge agreed and redacted portions of Bechard’s complaint this summer.
By Matthew Chapman
Obama Speech: His 9 Sharpest Attacks On Trump GOP
Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trump and the Republican Party as hypocrites and radicals in a scathing speech at the University of Illinois.
By Travis Gettys
White House Watch

Casualties Of Trump's Trade War
Eighty percent of the world's recreational vehicles are built in and around Elkhart County, Indiana, which voted for Trump by a 2-1 margin.
By Steve Chapman
On Climate Threat, States Refuse To Surrender
As large parts of America burn or drown under weird weather conditions made more extreme by global warming, California and other states are doggedly pursuing solutions.
By Froma Harrop
Trump Confronts The Enemy Within
Deep in the White House, someone is acting to subvert Donald Trump's policies, thwart his desires and generally sabotage his presidency.
By Steve Chapman
Ex-Mistress Says Former RNC Chair Demanded Abortion
Broidy’s attorneys filed a motion in July to redact parts of Bechard’s complaint that contain explosive allegations against him. A judge agreed and redacted portions of Bechard’s complaint this summer.
By Matthew Chapman
Obama Speech: His 9 Sharpest Attacks On Trump GOP
Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trump and the Republican Party as hypocrites and radicals in a scathing speech at the University of Illinois.
By Travis Gettys
How McCain Paved The Way For Trump
He gave the senator from Arizona so many chances to display his admirable qualities that you could forget he had others.
By Steve Chapman
Presidential Election

The Silly Debate About Socialism
Would someone kindly tell us which companies Bernie Sanders would nationalize, starting with Bernie Sanders?
By Froma Harrop
Judge In Voter Suppression Case Orders Kobach Return To Law School. Really.
Even more embarrassing than the loss, though, is that the judge thought Kobach's performance in defending the policy was so bad that he literally has to go back to school.
By Cody Fenwick
Danziger: Elephant In The Gloom
Some are enthused, some are craven, but Republican officials all know by now that their once grand party is merely a vehicle for this autocrat.
By Jeff Danziger
Why Political Reform Is So Difficult — And So Necessary
The system, which was instituted in 2010 and backed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was promoted as elevating more moderate candidates.
By Steven Rosenfeld
When Politics Was Fun
Hard as it might be to believe in the midst of today's poisonous and personally destructive political warfare, campaigns once brimmed with rascals and laughs.
By Mark Shields
For Comey, Hard Questions About Rudy Giuliani And The FBI
Openly voicing threats to leak internal FBI complaints about the Clinton probe were former prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani and James Kallstrom, a former head of the New York FBI office.
By Joe Conason
Capitol Hill

August Farewells To McCain -- And Another Great, Too
Lightly smiling, McCain tapped in Morse code on the elegant lunch table, to show how he communicated with other prisoners of war in the Hanoi Hilton. I couldn't get over his cheer.
By Jamie Stiehm
How McCain Paved The Way For Trump
He gave the senator from Arizona so many chances to display his admirable qualities that you could forget he had others.
By Steve Chapman
Cable Anchors: GOP Officials Refuse Invites To Discuss Trump's Helsinki Disaster
CNN’s Kate Bolduan: “I should note, we invited on all of the Republicans on the Senate intelligence committee today to talk about all of this. Those Republican members have all declined.”
By Grace Bennett
How Mitch McConnell Made Donald Trump
The president owes both his election and his long-term impact to the Senate majority leader, who not only engineered the strategy that will let Trump make two Supreme Court appointments, but also created the circumstances that facilitated his rise.
By Alec MacGillis
Where Is The Republican Gene McCarthy?
Twice in this campaign year, I have heard candidates publicly disparaging their opponents for, not unlike McCarthy, acting on conscience.
By Mark Shields
Democrats Regain Midterm Lead In New Polls
A new round of polls has given Democrats a major advantage once again in any predictions for the midterms, and it's causing some conservative pundits to reevaluate their optimism.
By Cody Fenwick
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