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Erika D. SmithChicago Tribune |
“My whole life was in that house.” I’ve lost track of how many friends, acquaintances and strangers have said those words to me in the week...
As (bad) luck would have it, both President Joe Biden and Governor Gavin Newsom were in Los Angeles this week, arriving just in time for some of the...
President-elect Donald Trump has no love for electric vehicles. If there were any doubts about how that might shake out in terms of policy once...
There’s one moment from the presidential campaign that’s still stuck in my mind: when Donald Trump told the Detroit Economic Club what would...
For progressive Democrats, the ones who pushed hardest for racial justice in corporations, universities and government agencies, things are looking...
As Democrats continue to bicker about how to move forward from their disastrous election, it’s worth noting that at least one prominent person...
President-elect Donald Trump this week confirmed that he plans to somehow declare a national emergency and enlist the help of the US military to...
For Democrats, getting over Kamala Harris’ decisive loss to Donald Trump is beginning to resemble the seven stages of grief. Following shock and...
With Kamala Harris and Donald Trump making their final, celebrity-studded pitches to voters, many Americans probably wish this nail-biter of a...
For as long as Donald Trump has been in politics, he has bashed California as a “radical hellscape” of crime, homelessness and drugs that only a...
The nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice recently released a new report with a conclusion so old that most Americans probably know it already: “...
To drive the freeways of Phoenix right now is to be overwhelmed by campaign billboards. “Republicans for Harris,” too many of them to count,...
A year ago, Donald Trump thought he had a winner in Kari Lake, an election denier who had just lost her race for Arizona governor. “She’s an...
For the first time in a long time, housing affordability is a major issue in the presidential race. And as we edge closer to Election Day, it has...
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abandoned his campaign for president last month and endorsed Donald Trump, Republicans undoubtedly breathed a sigh of...
There was a moment during Tuesday night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump that caught a lot of people...
Going into Tuesday night’s debate in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris needed to do two things: Prosecute the case against her opponent,...
If Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, manage to win in November, many will undoubtedly look back on...
For all the talk about how Kamala Harris may become the first woman of color elected president, one person most definitely isn’t talking about it:...
Nancy Pelosi could have walked onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night and gloated like the hero she is. She didn’t....
Two months ago, few would have believed that millions of Americans would suddenly become obsessed with electing a Black woman from California...
Try as they might, Republicans haven’t been able to come up with a line of attack that sticks to Vice President Kamala Harris. Calling her a “DEI...
The leadership of the National Association of Black Journalists will be rightly and roundly criticized for a very long time for letting Donald...
Vice President Kamala Harris has less than two weeks to select a running mate — and probably the only good thing about that is that she has plenty...