The Democratic National Committee rolled out its first paid media campaign linking former President Trump to the Heritage Foundation's conservative governing agenda known as Project 2025. The campaign consists of billboards that will be launched in major cities in large battleground states, including Raleigh, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Phoenix, and Las...
According to a new Pew Research Center poll, former President Donald Trump is beating President Biden by double digits on three key issues important to the American people.
Make America Great Again Inc., a top super PAC supporting former President Trump's 2024 White House campaign, says it raked in $104 million during the April-June second quarter of 2024 fundraising.
Republican Senate nominee Nella Domenici reports hauling in $2.9 million during the April-June second quarter of 2024 fundraising, a record for a U.S. Senate candidate in New Mexico.
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
In Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) continued attempt to cosplay as a man of the people, the banker’s son stands at odds with former President Donald Trump, the 2024 GOP nominee-in-waiting. Hawley recently blasted Trump’s signature legislative achievement, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, as not just a policy failure but heretical to religious […]
As a Midwestern suburban kid born during the Reagan administration, I grew up with no direct contact with cowboys, covered wagons, or the open trail. The only horses I ever came into close contact with were the coin-operated mechanical ones installed outside of supermarkets. In all the ways that matter, I am pure greenhorn. Nonetheless, […]
The past several months have provided much fuel for political fears both at home and abroad. But there is one worrisome political development in particular that has received too little attention: Are we in danger of a protest song revival? In May, for instance, the rapper Macklemore released “Hind’s Hall,” a song about the pro-Palestinian […]
Fredericka Mandelbaum, or Marm as she was known, was one of 150,000 Jews who left Germany and came to America in the mid-19th century hoping to escape antisemitism, restrictive laws, and poverty. When she arrived in New York City in 1850, Marm found conditions for women even worse than in Europe. Or at least for […]
The year 1989 was a watershed year in China, as it was in communist Eastern Europe, where the Berlin Wall fell that November and the Solidarity movement won Poland‘s first free elections since the end of World War II. In China, there was the massive student-led uprising against the Communist Party-controlled government at Beijing’s Tiananmen […]