The Supreme Court on Monday refused to require doctors in Texas to perform certain emergency abortions when the procedure would conflict with the state’s strict abortion ban. The justices left in place a lower-court ruling that rejected the Biden administration’s claim that federal law requires access to emergency abortion care even in states that restrict […]Read More

The Republican Party in the Trump era has overwhelmingly embraced an all’s-fair-in-love-and-war approach to politics. That’s evidenced by the fire hose of misinformation flowing from Donald Trump and his allies late in the 2024 campaign. It’s one thing to deploy this approach on a candidate’s positions or qualifications; it’s another to do it when it […]Read More

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is not interested in talking about the 2020 election. “See, this is the game that is always played by mainstream media with leading Republicans. It’s a gotcha game,” Johnson said in response to a question on the subject from ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. “You want us to litigate […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump has long espoused a worldview in which genes are the determinative factor in someone’s life. In 1988, for example, he told Oprah Winfrey that success requires luck — and that “you have to be born lucky in the sense that you have to have the right genes.” In a 1990 interview, […]Read More

Donald Trump suggested Monday that people in the country illegally who have committed crimes have “bad genes,” the latest example of rhetoric by the former president that dehumanizes immigrants and disparages them in racial terms. Trump made the comment during an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt while criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’s record on […]Read More

There is a canonical presentation of voters in a democracy. Attuned to the central issues of the election — be they national, state or local — these voters carefully consider the positions of the candidates and perform an elaborate mental calculus. Candidate A aligns with the voter on a few things, but Candidate B aligns […]Read More

Republicans backing Donald Trump are threatening Deloitte, a consulting firm that is one of the federal government’s largest business partners, with the loss of billions of dollars in contracts because an employee shared messages from 2020 in which GOP vice-presidential nominee JD Vance criticized the former president’s record. On Sept. 27, Donald Trump Jr. exposed […]Read More

Speaking on a popular podcast aimed at young women, Vice President Kamala Harris took issue with former president Donald Trump calling himself a “protector” of women and also responded to attacks on her stepfamily by Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Harris made the remarks on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, in an expansive interview with host […]Read More

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), former president Donald Trump’s running mate, said that Trump, if elected, would seek to end federal money for Planned Parenthood. “We don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions,” Vance told RealClearPolitics on Saturday night. “That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around, it will […]Read More