Former President Ronald Reagan had been out of office for five years when he returned to Washington, D.C., to address a Republican National Committee fundraiser. It was three days before his 83rd birthday. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, RNC Chairman Haley Barbour, and Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole were among those on hand for […]
Like President Joe Biden before her, Vice President Kamala Harris‘s map back to the White House is poised to go through Pennsylvania. While proper polling of Harris’s prospects against former President Donald Trump this November is only days old, the battleground state data, instead of her fundraising numbers and social media memes, underscore how Trump […]
The presidential window for former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley appears to be closed after her unsuccessful run for the 2024 Republican nomination. But there is one development that could reopen it, if only slightly. Though Haley served under former President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, she […]
The most memorable piece of information from my Bush-Quayle-era AP Biology class has nothing to do with cellular mitosis, genotypes, or, really, any scientific concept. Rather, it’s our long-tenured John Muir High School teacher, Al Razum, recalling how, more than 20 years earlier, FBI agents came calling on his classroom on a sad June 1968 […]
President Joe Biden’s shock July 21 announcement on X that he would not stand for reelection, months after securing enough delegates to be his party’s standard-bearer, left some questions about what this would mean for Vice President Kamala Harris. The note thanked Harris near the end for “being an extraordinary partner” in pushing White House […]
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has been heralded as a sort of intellectual progenitor of “Trumpism” as a political philosophy. The Ohio senator’s career has evolved from his bestselling memoir and excursions in venture capital to becoming former President Donald Trump’s running mate on the 2024 GOP ticket. But for all of […]
Texas is the largest oil producer in the United States. Nothing surprising there, but the state is also, perhaps less well known, the largest producer of wind energy. It also comes in second as the country’s largest producer of solar power, behind only California. Perhaps that makes it a very good example of how energy […]
Pete Buttigieg, secretary of transportation and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has returned to the public spotlight as a possible running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee. A candidate for president in 2020, Buttigieg is a Rhodes scholar and the first openly gay man in a presidential Cabinet position. Among […]
The White House is keeping its work on proposed changes to the Supreme Court under wraps from key Senate Democrats even as some seek to offer their two cents on policies they would play a crucial role in passing during President Joe Biden’s final months in office. Several Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee surveyed […]
One of our wisest philosophers (Homer Simpson) described television as “teacher, mother, secret lover.” Reality television belongs to that final classification, a mistress we can’t quite quit yet also will never introduce to our parents. It is ubiquitous as dirt and as dirty as, well, dirt. Critics have mostly treated it like dirt, too. If […]
