US Politics
— Why breakaway Republicans are blocking the election of a new speaker of the US House of Representatives.
US Politics
— Why breakaway Republicans are blocking the election of a new speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Voting Rights
— Laws making it more difficult to vote are being introduced around the democratic world, an expert says. They risk undermining democracy.
OPINION
— Congressman-elect George Anthony Santos lied about his career on his resume before being elected.
OPINION
— As his “brand” starts to diminish, there are three choices left for former President Donald J. Trump.
OPINION
— The vote results of the last mid-term elections have had political pundits, politicians, and the news media speculating that it’s the end of Donald Trump’s political dominance.
Analysis
— Donald Trump made little mention of his personal legal battles as he announced his bid to retake the White House. But would an indictment end the former president’s run for presidency?
OPINION
— President Biden had it right when he said that democracy won Tuesday’s elections. The pundits, pollsters and press had it wrong when they say Democrats won the election.
OPINION
— B. Jay Cooper, former deputy White House press secretary to Presidents Reagan and Bush, has decided to quit Twitter. This is why.
OPINION
— If you ever entertained any notion that the Republican Party will endure in a democracy, tell me what you’re smoking, please.
OPINION
— Between Ron DeSantis, Liz Cheney and Donald Trump, the Republicans seem to have already chosen their candidate for 2024 – or have they?
OPINION
— B. Jay Cooper occasionally hands out awards for Yos! and Oys!, celebrating those individuals who do good deeds (Yo!) and bad ones (Oy!). The Committee on Yos! and Oys! meets when it feels like it.
OPINION
— If Donald Trump is elected President in 2024, none of the world’s democracies will be safe or protected from China’s or Russia’s forced attempts to convert democracies to autocracies.
Donald Trump
— A presidential scholar sets the history and context for the battle over President Trump’s official records – and says it isn’t the first records battle between the government and a former president.
Donald Trump
— Photos showing what appear to be torn-up documents in two different toilets may provide more evidence of the former president’s habit of destroying his presidential documents.
OPINION
— Right around this time next year, from June 2023 thru July 2023, the greatest, most successful, and freest exercise of self-government, American democracy, will constitutionally end.
OPINION
— I don’t believe Cassidy Hutchinson intentionally lied on the stand, at all. I believe she testified honestly to what she knows first-hand and to what she heard second-hand.
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