Biden administration officials are reportedly mulling whether or not to grant blanket pardons to a laundry list of political allies, a move that, if enacted, would be a tacit admission that the Justice Department has been tainted by politics. President Joe Biden already brought scrutiny to the prosecutorial process when he issued a blanket pardon […]
Year in and year out, Congress fails to perform one of its most basic responsibilities: to pass a budget. There is even a statute that sets forth the method and timeline for passing a federal budget. But instead, Congress opts for something known as a “continuing resolution,” which is a monolithic legislative setpiece that perpetuates […]
For eight years, the Syrian civil war appeared over. Turkish-backed rebel fighters held their lines, but Bashar Assad’s regime controlled most major cities. Though Syria might not have been united under a single government, Assad’s adversaries considered the war over. Many in Congress considered Assad anathema, but even his Arab adversaries had begun to consider […]
Is South Korea’s legislative rejection of an autocratic president’s declaration of martial law a one-off — or an object lesson for President-elect Donald Trump?
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison, whose four-year tenure expires at the end of the year, urged Democrats to push back against calls to abandon "identity politics." Harrison drew on his own identity as a Black man as he delivered remarks to state Democratic chairs in Arizona on Thursday. “When I wake up in...
Incoming first lady Melania Trump said Friday her son, Barron Trump, was “very vocal” in giving advice to his father, President-elect Trump, during the 2024 presidential election, particularly on how to connect with younger audiences. Melania Trump credited the 18-year-old with convincing the president-elect to sit down with streamers and podcasters in order to reach younger voters. “He is a grown...
Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro is a strong contender for the presidential nomination in 2024, but he will have to account for the half dozen other Democratic governors who will run to seek their place in the sun.
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) called Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) a “crock” after the progressive senator said Democrats abandoned the working class, as the party grapples with President-elect Trump's November victory. “What a crock. What an absolute crock,” Huffman told Politico's Playbook. “[President] Joe Biden and Democrats did more for the working class in the last four...
Romania’s top court on Friday wiped out results from the first round of presidential elections and called for a re-run, days after declassified Romanian security documents alleged Russian interference that promoted a far-right outsider candidate. The Constitutional Court issued a unanimous decision to annul the entire electoral process of the presidential election, which took place...