A pair of actors from "The West Wing" say rewatching the show these days — amid the hyperpolarized political climate — can be an emotional experience. "It's sadness tinged with hope," said Mary McCormack, who played deputy national security adviser Kate Harper on the long-running NBC political drama. “I feel like America course-corrects. In the past,...
JD Vance somehow managed to merge everything voters found unlikeable about today’s far-right political elite into one candidate.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei vowed revenge after the top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a strike on Iranian soil early Wednesday morning. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directly blamed Israel for the strike, which hit the residence of Haniyeh while he was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of...
Democratic strategist James Carville suggested Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) will be fending off criticism over his "childless at ladies" remarks for a long time as Democrats slam the vice presidential candidate's abortion and reproductive views. "JD Vance is for something called menstrual surveillance. How much weirder can you get than that?” Carville said on MSNBC's...
Replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket weeks before the convention led to a shift of less than a point and a half. Partisanship, polarization and parity have locked voters in, allowing for precious little movement.
As a strategy for reducing the number of abortions, the half-century-long project of overruling Roe v. Wade has ended in failure.
Vice President Harris has “pulled the Democratic campaign out of free fall” as she emerges as the party’s near-certain presidential nominee, Chris Whipple, a biographer of President Biden, wrote Wednesday. In a guest essay for The New York Times, Whipple wrote that Harris has “accomplished the seemingly impossible” in just a matter of weeks. He...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was not involved in the death of top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed early Wednesday morning in an apparent assassination attempt in Iran. Blinken, who is on a multi-country trip to the Indo-Pacific, told Channel News Asia the U.S. was "not aware of or involved...
A Georgia man plead guilty Tuesday for threatening to kill Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) last year, federal prosecutors announced. Sean Patrick Cirillo, 34, of Atlanta, pleaded guilty to one count of transmitting interstate threats in U.S. District Court, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Cirillo made three different...
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by an airstrike in Iran early Wednesday morning—a move that is likely to escalate tensions in the region. Haniyeh is one of the militant group’s top leaders who was in Tehran for the inauguration of Iran’s new president. The Associated Press and other outlets said his death was reported...
Nearly 8 in 10 Democrats said they would be satisfied with Vice President Harris as their party’s nominee, according to a new survey. The latest poll from The Associated Press/NORC Research Center found that 79 percent of Democrats support Harris atop the ticket. This shows a significant increase in satisfaction for the leading Democratic candidate...
Democrats have been focusing on abortion and racial identity politics, while praising Vice President Kamala Harris for being "diverse" despite having no record of accomplishments, and attempting to rewrite her record to avoid criticism.
Maybe it is time to weave in social with emotional well-being as direct goals and turn a lens back to the role of government, social and community cushions.
The CrowdStrike debacle has highlighted the potential for cyberwarfare to disrupt and disable critical infrastructure, and the need for a more proactive approach to cybersecurity in order to protect against such threats.
Having a functional Supreme Court is not a political issue any more than having a functioning heart is a lifestyle choice. And while Biden’s current initiative is doomed to fail, it’s the beginning of a life-or-death discussion about the future of the court.
Karrin Taylor Robson, who ran and lost to Kari Lake in the Arizona governor’s race last cycle, announced she would endorse Lake in her Arizona Senate bid Wednesday. “It is essential that we hold on to the Republican majorities in our state legislature," she wrote in a statement shared on social media platform X. "With Katie...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who is atop the shortlist to be Vice President Harris's running mate, is uncomfortable in the role of attack dog and has eschewed politics for most of his time in the Senate. Kelly’s clean-cut reputation and focus on policy raises questions about whether he can play the traditional attack-dog role of...
Hard-line conservatives in the House left Washington frustrated that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) didn't uphold his promises on pushing through spending legislation — though they did not necessarily blame him. Johnson has now been in his post longer than his predecessor, who was ousted in part due to frustration with how he handled spending issues....
When former President Trump called for states to decide abortion access, Republicans lined up behind him in support. “The people are now deciding,” Trump said in June, adding “it’s a beautiful thing to watch.” But conservative state lawmakers and activists are working the levers of governmental power to keep abortion rights off the ballot in...
Vice President Harris’s quick pivot to her White House bid has prompted an about-face on multiple key issues that could affect outcomes in battleground states, handing former President Trump and Republicans a prime attack line. In the roughly one week since Harris replaced President Biden as the probable Democratic nominee, her campaign has moved to...
Vice President Harris faces a double-edged sword on the economy as she seeks to capitalize on strong economic data while grappling with President Biden’s unpopular record on inflation. As Harris ramps up her campaign, the economy appears to be moving in the right direction with inflation easing, the labor market cooling and hopes rising that...
Democrats say Vice President Harris is putting the key swing states of Georgia, Arizona and Nevada back in play after the party had just about lost any hope of holding onto them with President Biden on the ticket. Former President Trump was pulling away from Biden in many of these states, according to numerous polls,...
Democrats on Capitol Hill are hammering Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) over his charge that they’re “anti-family,” pointing to a host of child-friendly benefits they’ve long championed in the face of Republican opposition. Vance, the recently tapped running mate of former President Trump, has made waves in recent days for repeatedly accusing Democrats of being the...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign looks like it is in trouble with Vice President Kamala Harris as the likely Democratic nominee. Kennedy is scrambling to keep the public’s attention — and struggling to keep his moribund presidential bid alive. The independent candidate’s polling, prominent family and unpredictability have kept him on the watchlists of both...
Fearful of rising political violence and declining democratic norms, Chris Purdy is organizing veterans to fight both. The former Army National Guard member and advocate for Afghan evacuees this month launched the Chamberlain Network, aimed at countering the rise of authoritarianism and political polarization. Purdy is hoping veterans, who consistently poll as one of the...
