The First Night of the RNC Offered a Full-Throated Defense of School Choice
Republicans have turned away from freedom in many ways during the Trump era, but at least they've embraced school choice at the national level.
Republicans have turned away from freedom in many ways during the Trump era, but at least they've embraced school choice at the national level.
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Hostility to political opponents sustains what's left of the legacy parties.
A Jezebel hit piece unfairly smears a 25-year-old Republican candidate for Congress.
President Trump threatens to delay the election over at-home voting, but a bigger problem looms: States haven’t prepared for a huge influx of mail-in ballots.
Will Americans make peace with unpalatable election results?
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A president from a party supposedly committed to restraining the federal government is now sending enforcers to cities over local objections.
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Protectionism is now infecting the GOP to a degree that may be difficult to eradicate when the Trump era ends.
A book review of "The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump" by James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg
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The 24-year-old real estate investor Madison Cawthorn also won his primary over Trump-backed businesswoman Lynda Bennett.
The legal doctrine frequently allows police officers to violate your rights without fear of civil liability.
Rep. Tom McClintock (R–Calif.) announced he will support the Ending Qualified Immunity Act.
Good riddance to the racist, anti-immigrant congressman from Iowa.
Americans will survive the virus, but American political life is sicker than ever.
The Trump-era GOP lends credence to the idea that Obama-era Republicans cared about deficits only as a means of hampering a Democratic president.
The package doubled in cost over the course of the negotiations.
Trump's outgunned primary challenger says he'd endorse Biden and Bloomberg but not Sanders, and that Republicans might still go the way of the Whigs.
The real resistance is made up of those who refuse to be governed by any of the wannabe rulers.
Instead of destroying the political gatekeepers, we've merely handed the keys to the populists.
The former Massachusetts governor and 2016 Libertarian V.P. candidate gets just 9 percent in his own back yard, will continue to Super Tuesday.
"These people are vicious," Trump said.
Conservatives hope to renew their old alliance with radical feminists.
While some Republicans conceded that the president acted inappropriately, they concluded that his conduct was not impeachable.
GOP attacks on internet smut are heating up, but the porn industry has more practical threats to worry about.
By copying his language, interesting thinkers run the risk of dumbing themselves and America down.
President Donald Trump is still heading for an almost certain acquittal.
Club for Growth and FreedomWorks cease supporting the congressman they've showered with awards
But their rhetorical tricks no longer bewitch a war-weary nation.
Trump's offhand insult of the late John Dingell is part of how he reshapes the GOP into his own image, to the applause of supporters fed up with Washington's exaggerated self-regard
His case now heads to the Senate, where he will almost certainly be acquitted.
The libertarian congressman announced on the House floor that he will vote in favor of impeachment.
The state wants to add cops to the list of oppressed classes.
Trump is impeachable, but the process might exacerbate political tensions without resolving anything.
Just like their counterparts in the Democratic Party do!
The three witnesses for the Democrats said Trump clearly committed impeachable offenses, while the lone witness for the Republicans said he wasn't so sure.
"CNN is the mother of fake news," reads the introduction to Nunes' new lawsuit.
The minority report dismisses all witness testimony and maintains that Trump did nothing wrong.
"The Trump administration has engaged in some pretty bad behavior. It's a little hard to defend it on the merits," says Keith Whittington.
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The partisan factions aren't fighting for anything more than the power to destroy each other.
Former South Carolina congressman and governor, who'd been running on debt/deficits, says impeachment has sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
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Americans are deeply divided about our political options and even about each other’s fundamental decency.
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