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Ed KilgoreDaily Intelligencer |
Tuesday was a day like no other in living memory, with bookends provided by two Truth Social posts from Donald Trump. At 8:06 a.m. ET, the president...
An endorsement from Donald Trump is usually an enormous gift to any Republican candidate. But the 47th president’s “COMPLETE AND TOTAL...
Republicans concerned about Donald Trump’s chronically underwater job-approval ratings have sometimes reassured themselves by pointing at...
Being the chief law-enforcement officer for a president who believes he defines the law and is given imperial powers by the Constitution is hard work....
Last week, the Senate unanimously passed a bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security except for its immigration-related functions. House...
The closure of the Department of Homeland Security has now become the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history, at 45 days and counting. It...
The political world is, understandably, focused on 2026 Senate and House races. The question of whether the Republican Party will maintain its...
In the middle of Thursday night, in a near-empty Senate chamber, an end to the most perplexing conflict of the second Donald Trump term finally came...
The Department of Homeland Security shutdown will reach its 40th day tomorrow, and it seems this partisan dispute over immigration enforcement cannot...
In 1992, Illinois became the first state to elect a Black woman to the U.S. Senate after Carol Moseley Braun upset incumbent Democratic senator Alan...
Unprecedented as it was, Donald Trump’s decision to launch a nationwide mid-decade gerrymandering campaign last year made some raw political sense....
While Donald Trump’s war in Iran is growing more intense, dangerous, and unpredictable, MAGA-land activists have a different preoccupation....
You have to hand it to John Cornyn: In suddenly coming out for the destruction of the Senate filibuster, he acknowledges this contradicts his...
Republicans are facing a midterm election that is very likely to end their trifecta control of the federal government. So they urgently need some help...
It’s now been a week since Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu began their war of destruction and regime change in Iran, a conflict that has gone...
If the key to success in any high-profile job is low expectations based on the poor performance of one’s predecessor, President Trump’s nominee...
As expected, on Wednesday the U.S. Senate rejected Tim Kaine’s War Powers Act resolution ordering Donald Trump to cease attacks on Iran within 30...
It sure didn’t take long for Republicans to hit the panic button over the results of yesterday’s Texas U.S. Senate primary. The minute it became...
The 2026 election season began with a bang yesterday as Texas held highly competitive U.S. Senate primaries. With epic turnout, Democrats narrowly...
On Tuesday, March 3, Texas Democrats will choose between Jasmine Crockett, a U.S. representative from Dallas, and James Talarico, a state legislator...
It may take a while for the immensity of Donald Trump’s war in Iran — the U.S.-Israeli military strikes, the scope of the conflict as Iran...
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision invalidating the basis of Donald Trump’s beloved “Liberation Day” tariffs, there’s a...
The election to name the next governor of California feels very strange. For one thing, it’s only the second election since 1998 in which the...
Virtually every Republican political strategist agrees that the economy, and particularly the cost of living, will be the dominant issue in the 2026...
When we heard that Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union Address would break his own record for the longest-ever presidential speech to Congress, a...
State of the Union addresses, like the one Donald Trump will deliver on Tuesday night, are a precious commodity for every president. The audience is...
This week, there’s been a lot of attention focused on the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to its stunning decision blowing up the rationale for Donald...
Unsurprisingly, President Trump did not react well to the U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating much of his tariff agenda as an unconstitutional...
In a long-awaited and complex decision, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated President Trump’s principal device for imposing tariffs...
There’s been a lot of buzz in Washington lately about the “exodus” of members of Congress in the 2026 midterm-election cycle. So far, 51 U.S....
At the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on February 5, President Donald Trump indulged himself in a 75-minute rambling tirade devoted to...
As a longtime Democratic National Convention staffer, I have two ineradicable memories of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who died yesterday at the age of...
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