President Donald Trump on Thursday urged congressional Republicans to unilaterally end the government shutdown by eliminating the filibuster — an unprecedented step that GOP leaders have opposed taking…
Read more President Trump calls for end of Senate filibuster to break funding stalemateThe story Donald Trump tells about himself—and to himself—has always been one of domination. It runs through the canonical texts of his personal mythology. In The Art of…
Read more Why Republican Politicians Do Whatever Trump SaysDonald Trump’s renewed pledge on social media and in campaign rallies to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has put him on a collision course with a…
Read more Trump Is Coming for Obamacare AgainThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A little more than halfway into his speech in Waterloo, Iowa,…
Read more Trump Insists He Hasn’t Read Mein KampfWhen President Joe Biden visits South Carolina to tout a new solar-energy-manufacturing facility today, he will underscore a striking pattern: Some of the biggest winners from his economic…
Read more Biden’s ‘Big Build’On its surface, the unfolding debt-ceiling crisis looks a lot like the confrontation in 2011 between congressional Republicans and then-President Barack Obama. Once again, a new GOP majority…
Read more This Debt Crisis Is Not Like 2011’s. It’s Worse.It was a raucous, interactive, and argumentative State of the Union like no other. And when it was over, President Joe Biden had provided a clear signal of…
Read more Feisty Joe Biden Is BackThis has become the double-negative election. Most Americans consistently say in polls that they believe that President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have mismanaged crime, the border, and,…
Read more The Double-Negative Election
