Photo-Illustration: Cornyn Lonestar Victory Fund In many years of observing politics, I’ve seen a lot of nasty, negative ads between primary opponents who belong to the same party.…
Read more Cornyn’s Nasty Attack on Paxton May Haunt Texas RepublicansPresident Donald Trump’s State of the Union address tilted heavily on domestic issues, but he also made the case for his foreign policy efforts to Americans who are…
Read more Trump makes the case for his foreign policy approach at State of the UnionPresident Donald Trump declared during a marathon State of the Union on Tuesday that “we’re winning so much” — insisting he’d sparked an economic boom at home and…
Read more Trump uses longest-ever State of the Union to try to convince voters that US is ‘winning so much’Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon with his Christian nationalist mentor Doug Wilson. Photo: @PeteHegseth/X At the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on February 5, President Donald Trump…
Read more Talarico Contests MAGA’s Conquest of American ChristianityPhoto: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Hard-core conservative Republicans have been agitating lately for a follow-up to last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. A second budget-reconciliation measure would let…
Read more Trump May Have Already Signed His Last Big Piece of LegislationPhoto: Desiree Rios/The New York Times/Redux It’s definitely possible to overreact to special-election results. These episodic contests, often far downballot, tend to attract low, sometimes skewed voter turnout.…
Read more Texas Special-Election Shocker Signals Big Trouble for GOPOut of the blue. Photo: X/@WhiteHouse For many years, dating all the way back to 2015, Donald Trump has promised he’d someday offer a health-care plan to replace…
Read more Trump Repackages Random Ideas Into ‘Great Healthcare Plan’Congressional Democrats have their issue for 2026. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images One of the big political stories of 2025 was the Democrats’ search for a message that could…
Read more Democrats Want to Run on Affordability. Trump Has Other Plans.The lights could yet go off on January 30. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images There’s a lot of conflict in Congress to begin 2026, but the odds of another…
Read more Trump’s Latest Outrages Could Ramp Up Pressure for Another Government ShutdownPhoto: Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg/Getty Images Indiana Republicans defied bomb threats, swatting incidents, and a pressure campaign led by President Donald Trump when on Thursday they voted down a bill…
Read more Indiana Republicans Defied Trump and Bomb Threats to Stop Pro-GOP RedistrictingOn and on and on and on. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images Donald Trump has a flexible attitude toward truth and facts, typically embracing whatever version of reality…
Read more What Will America Look Like After 3 More Years of Trump?President Trump’s current standing among Latinos has regressed back to where it was when he lost to Joe Biden in 2020. Photo: Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images In…
Read more Trump’s Gains With Latino Voters Are EvaporatingTrump could again draw in all the congressional leaders and force them into a deal. Photo: Melina Mara/Getty Images This isn’t the first time that we’re reading stories…
Read more Trump Could Save Himself by Saving ObamacareThe Department of Justice’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmeet Dhillon, who’s had a bad week. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images At some point earlier this year, Donald…
Read more GOP Redistricting May Backfire Due to Team Trump’s IncompetenceHe’s going to dominate the midterms just like he dominates his party. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images While presidents are always a dominant influence over the political parties they…
Read more Once Again, Republicans Have a Trump ProblemVirginia Democratic legislative leader Scott Surovell has a redistricting tiger by the tail. Photo: Minh Connors/The Washington Post/Getty Images With all the appalling things going on every day…
Read more Trump’s Redistricting Race Is Already Going Off the RailsThese two people are not going to be on any 2026 ballots. Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Look, I get it: There are many reasons Democrats feel the need…
Read more Dwelling on the 2024 Defeat Is a Waste of Time for DemocratsHere’s the real battleground. Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post/Getty Images As congressional Democrats sort through their strategic options for managing the current government shutdown, they should keep in…
Read more The Other Demand Democrats Should Make During the Shutdown FightPhoto: Mario Tama/Getty Images The ability to retaliate against Donald Trump’s power grabs and other outrages is a rare pleasure for Democrats, which is why Gavin Newsom’s counter-gerrymandering…
Read more Gavin Newsom’s Responsible Retaliation Against TrumpAnother flip and flop, this time on how to ban voting by mail. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Donald Trump began this week with a bang. He posted a…
Read more Trump Abruptly Changes Strategy on Mail-Ballot Ban