Xavier Becerra has decided that the race for governor is in the bag. So he’s not offering policy details, or promises, that anyone might use to hold him accountable...
The Log Cabin Republicans, the nation's largest group representing gay conservatives, have stopped supporting transgender people, dropping the T from what they called their "LGBT advocacy organization."
Democrats will open their convention with a celebration of President Joe Biden, the candidate for whom they nigh-unanimously voted in primaries only to jettison...
Why is Taylor Swift such a difficult puzzle for Republicans? Part of it is probably because some of the Right’s shrillest and loudest voices refuse to even acknowledge that she’s real. Not kidding. Earlier this year against the backdrop of Swift’s support for Joe Biden, right-wing personalities including podcaster Benny Johnson and activist Laura Loomer […]
The Democratic National Convention in Chicago features mobs of antisemitic protesters and scores of police officers on the streets. So which party is it again that has the problem with violence, extremists, and bigots? In preparation for the DNC, businesses in Chicago’s business district have been boarding up windows in anticipation of protests turning violent […]
Though it was billed as a Pittsburgh kickoff bus tour on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, presidential candidate Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz instead spent Sunday afternoon in Beaver County in tightly controlled stops before heading to Chicago. Harris held a short rally at a private airport hangar surrounded by supporters, […]
Democrats will make Thanksgiving better, Tim Walz promises. “Remember when you could go to Thanksgiving, watch a Steelers game with your relatives, and not complain about politics the whole time, not be on each other’s neck?” Walz, the presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee, said in Pennsylvania. “We don’t call each other names. We don’t do […]
This is the week of the 49th Democratic National Convention, the latest in a quadrennial series that goes back in an unbroken chain to 1832. It’s the oldest political party in the world. Its first presidential nominee, Andrew Jackson, was born in 1767, near the border of North Carolina and South Carolina, which were both […]
CHICAGO — Outside of the Democratic National Convention, protesters and supporters alike are raging over abortion, Gaza, pronouns, vibes, and joy, but in the Trump International Hotel and Tower overlooking the Chicago River, allies of the eponymous former president and current Republican presidential nominee have honed in on the kitchen table issue of the worst […]
DEMOCRATS PRAISE BIDEN AS THEY PUSH HIM OUT THE DOOR. President Joe Biden‘s half-century career in electoral politics comes to an end Monday night in Chicago. It won’t be voluntary. The 81-year-old president had planned for this week to be the moment he accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for reelection. Instead, party insiders muscled him out […]
President Joe Biden has lost the political spotlight to Vice President Kamala Harris, but despite his obvious diminished mental capacity, he still clings to his office, which means that what little he says in public still affects national policy, whether his statements are intentional or not. This week, en route to a rare joint appearance […]
Although the Democratic National Convention does not begin until Monday, a mishmash of various left-wing interest groups had already amassed in downtown Chicago by Sunday afternoon. Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws successfully sued the city after initially being denied a permit to, in the group’s own words, “crash the party” to coronate Vice President Kamala […]
