Trump's 2020 Campaign Kickoff Was a Nostalgic Throwback to…2016
The president's first big rally was a greatest hits show that dodged many of today's biggest issues.
The president's first big rally was a greatest hits show that dodged many of today's biggest issues.
A discussion about the state of the party, as presidential debate season kicks off
The president's spokeswoman is doing what she has always done on TV, unencumbered by the legal distinction between partisan pundit and executive branch employee.
Bernie Sanders' Democratic rivals may laugh at his socialist pretensions. But in important ways, he's winning.
The Democratic presidential hopeful tweeted that the company pays "a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers."
But the progressive share of the 2020 Dem field has been remarkably stable, at just 30 percent.
A majority of Democratic voters now favor free trade. Some of the party's presidential candidates are starting to notice.
I do not think that means what you think it means.
The benefits of a backlash
First survey since the libertarian’s impeachment comments shows big lead for pro-Trump challenger
Plus: YouTube moderation, over-the-counter birth control, craft brewery regulation, New York prostitution laws, and more...
The two Democrats' climate action plans reveal a near limitless faith in the ability of government to reorganize the economy.
The Democratic hopeful has a plan for everything. Will her plans add up?
Sanders no longer favors government takeover of "the major means of production." But his four-decade quest for political revolution continues.
The #NeverTrump primary challenge to the president is nearly DOA.
We’ve got so many giveaways, we’re practically giving them away!
The presidential hopeful released his immigration plan on Wednesday.
Sen. Cory Booker's comments were in response to Sen. Bernie Sanders' public education plan, which targets charter schools.
Scuffling GOP primary challenger, meanwhile, defends his assertion that the president would prefer an "Aryan nation"
Competitors welcome chance to debate (and defeat!) the Republican congressman who is currently having a national moment.
The good news: Capitalism is working its way back to the Democratic mainstream. The bad news: This capitalism comes with a whole lot of government.
Plus: Brexit triumphs in European Parliament elections and Princeton students want an Office of Intersectional Violence Investigations.
"Tariffs are taxes on Americans—and we talk as if that's not the case; we forget that Americans are paying them," says Pete Buttigieg. That shouldn't be noteworthy, but unfortunately it is.
There aren't more like him in Congress. Which is why he might take the third-party plunge.
Anti-prohibitionists are now trying to help those still impacted by old drug convictions.
It's a one-size-fits-all solution to a complex issue.
Bill de Blasio helped raise funds for the Sandinistas in New York and subscribed to the party's newspaper, Barricada, or Barricade.
Bill de Blasio's coming humiliation is just the latest evidence of the outer-borough president's revenge on Manhattan.
The president goes personal in his reply to a libertarian Republican congressman accusing him of obstruction of justice.
The unloved independent centrist is waiting to see if Joe Biden survives or is yanked too far leftward
The mayor of America's largest city is openly contemptuous of private property rights.
Trade has made Americans better off, and Democrats should use every opportunity to make that argument in the face of Trump's trade war.
If the past is any sort of guide to what comes next, his fears about a jobless economy (and his policy prescriptions to fix it) are completely misplaced.
Ilya Somin of "The Volokh Conspiracy" discusses the dangers of liberal proposals to pack the Supreme Court.
Single-payer would eliminate private health insurance as we know it today.
Biden, like Trump, understands the potential political appeal of "used to be," the warm nostalgia in the hearts and minds of older voters about what they imagine America was before its supposed decline.
Plus: Police raid reporters' home in San Francisco, a crackdown on free market economists in China, and more....
So much for impartial arbitration of intra-party competition.
Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to cap credit card interest rates. There will be unintended consequences.
He'll creak in the direction of the prevailing political winds eventually, for good and mostly ill. It's his greatest weakness, and main selling point.
Cory Booker’s plan would unjustly deprive peaceful Americans of the fundamental right to armed self-defense.
The Democratic presidential candidate promises to fight for a design requirement that is not currently feasible.
Resist when politicians declare that speech (even radical speech) is a “threat to our democracy.”
Perhaps the biggest compliment to Trump's foreign policy is his political opponents largely want to make the 2020 election about domestic issues.
"If we had to pick one of them to be our president, I think she would be giving us the best chance for bringing about peace."
And that's just one of the measures outlined in his new gun control proposal.
Friday A/V Club: Back in the '80s, Bernie Sanders had a public-access TV show. The archives are now online.
The Colorado Democrat opposes Medicare for All and universal free college.