NIKKI HALEY'S DANGEROUS IDEA. So far, no Republican candidate has been able to make a serious run at former President Donald Trump, who remains far ahead of the GOP presidential pack. But Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, has managed to grab some momentum in the race for second place. She's done it in large part by turning in three good performances at the first Republican debates, managing to find the right position and capture the right tone on issues from foreign policy to abortion.

It seems that about half of all commentary by economic writers these days amounts to: “The economy is great, and Biden would get more credit if only the people were smart enough to notice.”

Late-night television hosts seized on the near altercation between Sen. Markwayne Mullins (R-Okla.) and Teamsters President Sean O’Brien during a Senate hearing in their opening monologues Tuesday night.  Mullins, a trained mixed martial arts fighter, challenged O’Brien to fight during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing, after confronting him over a...

A band of conservatives tanked a procedural vote to advance an appropriations bill on Wednesday, underscoring the problems Republicans are having in the government funding process. Shortly after the failed procedural vote, the office of House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) announced that no additional votes would be expected in the House following the current...

In any other America on any other timeline, a presidential candidate echoing the words of Adolf Hitler would soon be packing up for an early retirement. We clearly don’t live in any of those Americas, because former President Donald Trump got yet another free pass from the press after echoing fascist slogans during a rally...

The man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), offered an apology in court on Tuesday, claiming the former Speaker's husband was "never" his target, according to the Associated Press. In an emotional testimony on Tuesday, David DePape, 43, described to the court how his political views shifted...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) weighed in on Tuesday's dustups between GOP lawmakers in both chambers, calling it "another episode of 'Republicans Gone Wild.'" When asked about his feelings toward the tension in the Republican party, Jeffries responded by criticizing his Republican colleagues for not focusing on more important issues than their disagreements. “We...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), the former mixed martial arts fighter who challenged a labor leader to a brawl in the middle of a Senate hearing room Tuesday, says that there’s a long history of violence in American politics, claiming in an interview: “You used to be able to cane.” Mullin isn’t backing down or apologizing...

Former President Trump's legal team on Wednesday requested a mistrial in his New York fraud case, claiming that the trial judge and his principal law clerk's purported bias against Trump has "tainted" the case. "This appearance of bias threatens both Defendants' rights and the integrity of the judiciary as an institution," Trump's counsel wrote in...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) called GOP presidential primary rival Nikki Haley's recent proposal for social media verification “dangerous and unconstitutional" and compared it to the Chinese Communist government. Haley, the former South Carolina governor turned Trump appointee, is gaining ground on the former president in key states, while DeSantis sees falling poll numbers. Haley...