Politics

Steve Schmidt – ex-Dick Cheney aide, new liberal hero and not at all the guy who helped unleash the modern far right by inviting Sarah Palin onto a presidential ticket – had a few things to say in the wake of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s shocking win over long-serving Democrat Joe Crowley. …

(The third in a series of diaries from the oddest congressional race in America) Friday, June 8th, Kinderhook, New York. Dave Clegg, the Woodstock-based trial lawyer who’s running for the seat in New York’s 19th district, tells a story about going to Washington for a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee training …

On Sunday, throngs of people lined Sixth Avenue in Manhattan for the 61st annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade. Rosa Clemente wasn’t one of them. “I made a choice this year. I couldn’t march,” the Bronx-born Boricua activist and former Green Party candidate for vice president tells Rolling Stone. “I …

What the hell has happened to Trump Country? That vast imaginary region of hate-fueled, white-trash Donald Trump dittoheads – a joint creation of hillbilly-bashing memoirist J.D. Vance, The New York Times, and coastal liberals who need somebody to blame – has been behaving very strangely of late. Kansans electing progressives …

Monday was likely one of the worst days of Michael Cohen’s life, and he had it coming. Connected to a variety of scandals ranging from Russia to Stormy Daniels, the president’s personal lawyer saw his office and hotel room raided by the FBI. To boot, we learned that Cohen allegedly …

Donald Trump drew more than typical stares when he took to the field at Monday night’s college football national championship in Atlanta; he incurred the wrath and mockery of eagle-eyed TV viewers who noted that the current U.S. president didn’t seem to know the words to the national anthem. In …

A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators reached an agreement Tuesday that could help stabilize the nation’s health insurance marketplaces in the short term. But the legislation still faces an uphill battle in the upper chamber of Congress and may never see the light of day in the House. The deal, …

Donald Trump has created a rare hat trick of bad public policy. His latest move to kneecap Obamacare will raise premiums, throw at least a million people off the insurance rolls and cost the federal government nearly $200 billion. It is an act of spite and malice, perpetrated by a …