Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as VP pick
Vice President Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate, opting for a former high school teacher and Midwestern Democrat to complete a newly assembled presidential…
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Weirdness in the markets and on the right
On Monday morning, as American stock markets were following Asian markets downward, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) challenged Vice President Harris to “immediately — without a script — explain her economic…
Tim Walz’s journey from high school football coach to VP candidate
Some 20 years ago, a lawyer named Kamala Harris won her first political race, becoming the first Black and South Asian woman elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003…
Trump’s fusillade of falsehoods on debt and taxes
Former president Donald Trump has long misled his audiences about the national debt. He frequently — and wrongly — asserts that tax cuts will generate more revenue and suggests he…
Harris prepares to name running mate and launch multistate tour
Vice President Harris holed up at her residence at the Naval Observatory on Monday to finalize the selection of her running mate, perhaps the biggest decision of her nascent campaign,…
Trump says rapper Ye is ‘complicated’ but ‘has a good heart’
Donald Trump on Monday called rapper Ye a “really nice guy” who is “complicated” but has “a good heart,” praising the celebrity whose antisemitic remarks in recent years has drawn…
Sen. Wyden says Thomas took two more undisclosed flights on donor’s jet
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s lavish travel provided by Republican donor Harlan Crow included two more flights aboard the billionaire’s private jet that were not publicly disclosed, according to a…
Trump keeps attacking their spouses. Top GOPers keep supporting him anyway.
Some of the ugliest moments in the 2016 Republican nominating contest came when Donald Trump attacked Sen. Ted Cruz’s family. Trump baselessly suggested Cruz’s father might have participated in John…
Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis agrees to cooperate in Arizona elector case
PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) reached a cooperation agreement Monday with Jenna Ellis, who was a legal adviser to Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign and was one of…
Once Trump is gone, what part of the Republican Party will remain?
Perhaps you, like me, were curious over the weekend about how many people were seeking instructions on the classical art of harp-playing. The answer to this is hard to ascertain…