correction A previous version of this article misspelled the last name of a member of the Baltimore City Republican Central Committee. He is Dennis Betzel, not Dennis Bentzel. The article has been corrected. Following Tuesday’s deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, some Republican officials, candidates and right-wing pundits attempted to connect […]Read More

Following Tuesday’s deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, some Republican officials, candidates and right-wing pundits attempted to connect the tragedy to some of their most frequent political targets: diversity initiatives, illegal immigration, covid lockdowns and the Biden administration. And early reaction to the incident also provided fresh ground for unfounded theories […]Read More

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) faces a unique dilemma as he considers how to handle the proposed security package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Johnson doesn’t need to find a way to the normal majority in the House — currently 216 out of the 431 members — but instead he needs to pull together legislation […]Read More

Montana’s highest court on Wednesday struck down four laws that the state’s Republican-led legislature passed in 2021 to restrict voting. The Montana Supreme Court declared the laws unconstitutional, siding with a district court judge who ruled against them in 2022. The laws “violate the fundamental right to vote provided to all citizens by the Montana […]Read More

There’s little question that Republican candidates on the ballot in November believe that immigration is the most useful issue for them to highlight. Fox News went from mentioning the border (or migrants or immigration) about 1,400 times in July to more than 9,200 times in February and over 9,600 times last month. This wasn’t obviously […]Read More

MSNBC President Rashida Jones participated in recruiting former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel earlier this month and McDaniel was offered a more lucrative contributor contract after she agreed to appear on MSNBC and not just NBC News, according to people familiar with the matter. NBC News said on Tuesday that McDaniel — who repeatedly […]Read More

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie (R) has decided against running as the No Labels candidate for president after spending time and money gaming out the prospects of a centrist third-party bid against President Biden and former president Donald Trump. The decision leaves the group with few remaining high-profile options for candidates, despite widespread public […]Read More

It is generally understood that the appeal of living in the United States — the American Dream itself — is that anyone can be a success. That opportunity is offered evenly and anyone could take advantage to become a success. You can grow up to be president! You can become a billionaire! It’s there for […]Read More

Joseph I. Lieberman, the doggedly independent four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died March 27 in New York City. He was 82. The cause was complications from a fall, his family said in […]Read More