Less than a month after the midterm elections, the West Virginia Legislature’s Republican supermajority added one more member. Not through any democratic process, mind you, but because […]
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Americans love to hate their politics
by David A. Hopkins In the 2018 midterm elections, 50% of eligible U.S. citizens turned out to vote. Because Americans are always less inclined to show up […]
The coming GOP era of ‘angertainment’
by Robin Abcarian There is nothing showy or preposterous about the work of the House Jan. 6 committee. Over the course of 10 sessions, a nominally bipartisan […]
Supreme Court should separate sleazy lobbying from the criminal kind
by Stephen L. Carter The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in the most important case you’ve never heard of. Although Percoco v. United States has […]
Would Jim Justice and the U.S. Senate be a good match?
In the 1972 movie The Candidate, Bill McKay (played by Robert Redford) runs for and wins a U.S. Senate race in California. At the end of the […]
Divisive politics hurting public schools, California educators say
Poetry, Robert Frost said, makes you remember — what you didn’t know you knew. Which, in many ways mirrors the findings of a study on life in […]
Trump the result of the conservative populist coalition, not the cause
Ever since former President Donald Trump lost to President Joe Biden in 2020, there has been a flag hanging from a home not far from where I […]
Rocky road ahead for House Speaker McCarthy
by Carl P. Leubsdorf For the past two years, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi has conducted a political science class in how to manage the House of Representatives […]
Democrats mastered mail-in balloting
Republicans will pay if they fail to step up The first thing Allegheny County Republican Chairman Sam DeMarco saw on election night after the polls closed was […]
Trump’s candidacy complicates a potential criminal case against him
by Harry Litman The consensus in the wake of Donald Trump’s announcement that he is running for president in 2024 is that he is hoping to avert, […]
