“The world must be made safe for democracy,” President Woodrow Wilson declared in his 1917 war message to Congress. To engineer support for the cause, he proceeded to shut down civil liberties, create a national propaganda machine, and set the modern administrative state in motion. In the name of democracy, he instituted compulsory conscription and […]
The main campaign arm for House Republicans is adding Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) to its list of targets for the 2024 cycle after initially viewing his seat as likely Democratic. The National Republican Congressional Committee expanded its list of targets a month after Cuellar was indicted on federal bribery charges. The indictment has put Cuellar […]
Ahead of a highly anticipated hearing with former National Institutes of Health official Anthony Fauci, House Democrats released a report casting doubt on the findings and motivations of Republicans leading the investigation. “Under the guise of investigating the pandemic’s origins, House Republicans have abdicated their responsibility to objectively examine how COVID-19 came to be,” Select […]
Former President Donald Trump went from having a clean record to becoming a felon after a Manhattan jury found him guilty in the criminal hush money case last week — in part due to his imperfect legal strategy and damning instructions given by the judge. Legal experts say Trump’s conviction can be traced to the […]
Rumblings that former President Donald Trump could compete with President Joe Biden in Virginia have grown louder, even as the state has supported the Democratic candidate every year since 2008. A poll released last week showed Biden and Trump tied at 42% in a head-to-head race in the state, and the president leads by 2 […]
Republican Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy became the first Republican to run a campaign ad featuring former President Donald Trump‘s conviction. The ex-Navy SEAL used the historic conviction to attack his opponent, Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), as complicit in the persecution of Trump. Tester is a rare Democrat to occupy a Senate seat in a […]
A suspect accused of shooting and wounding two New York City Police Department officers Monday was confirmed to have made his way into the country illegally, authorities said. The alleged shooter, 19-year-old Venezuelan national Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, purportedly shot the officers around 1:40 a.m. after he drove a moped onto the wrong side of […]
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) is returning to Washington, D.C., on Monday following a whirlwind trip through two Senate battlegrounds. On Friday, he traveled to Nevada to fundraise for Army veteran Sam Brown, the establishment pick to challenge Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen (NV) in the fall. Thune spent the next two days in Montana to support […]
In June 1918, near the end of World War I, the Socialist Party of America’s presidential candidate, Eugene Debs, delivered a scathing antiwar speech to a crowd in Canton, Ohio. Debs knew that he had to be careful in how he phrased his remarks, noting ironically that “it is extremely dangerous to exercise the constitutional […]
Like a lot of young students in 1980, Howard Klausner was a Jimmy Carter guy when the first-term president ran for reelection against challenger Ronald Reagan, the former California governor. For many, Carter was likable and progressive, making it easy to overlook his long list of failures. “Great man, terrible president,” said Klausner, who worked […]
