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Glenn C. Altschuler, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
As Michael Tackett implies in his new book, “The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party,” he...
Trump’s botched response to the pandemic fell disproportionately on Black Americans.
Harris cannot rely on facts, statistics or detailed policy pronouncements.
Trump’s public statements have also become increasingly incoherent.
It seems reasonable to conclude that Ye, Fuentes, Loomer, Robinson and Vance are Donald Trump’s kind of guys.
K-12 school shootings occur far more frequently in the U.S. than in any other country.
Trump knows that a substantial majority of Americans strongly oppose the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Kennedy and Trump differ on many issues, but they have well-deserved reputations as peddlers of false and dangerous allegations about the safety and...
More often than not, congressional Republicans have opposed child tax credit increases, while Democrats have made sizable child tax credits a high...
The challenge for Harris involves combining full-throated support for Israel’s right to defend itself with signals that she will do more than...
Donald Trump has made over 800 false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and his lies have undermined faith in free and fair elections...
Autocrats and dictators share the same goals. And they are collaborating to achieve these goals.
New York’s congestion pricing plan is a textbook example of the perennial conflict between good policies and good politics.
New York’s congestion pricing plan is a textbook example of the perennial conflict between good policies and good politics.
The demonization of Anthony Fauci suggests that partisan polarization, contempt for expertise, coarseness, cruelty and a cultish propensity for...
As supporters of HB 71 know, more than 40 years ago, in Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court declared that a Kentucky statute nearly identical to theirs...
President Biden has made accessible, affordable, higher quality health care one of his top priorities.
Revenge breeds revenge, often accompanied by vigilante violence.
Americans, alas, do not agree about the causes of, let alone the cures for, the crisis in public education.
Issued perhaps to ensure that they have a future in the Republican Party, their tepid support flies in the face of the compelling cases each of them...
This month, several incidents reveal that American ships of state have lost their way and more frequent and forceful distress calls should be issued...
Republicans’ partisan weaponization of antisemitism has not diminished their toleration of anti-Jewish dog whistlers in their own ranks.
A huge spike in crime, including a whopping 29 percent surge in murders, occurred during the pandemic in 2020 while Trump was president.
Republicans play to win, while the Democrats play not to lose.
Reforms to enhance democracy in the House should begin with greater use of discharge petitions.
He is willing to say and do just about anything to get elected.
Netanyahu’s claims that elections will prevent Israel from defeating Hamas, set back negotiations to release hostages and further polarize society...
Trump has not mentioned that all five New York appellate justices were appointed by Democratic governors.
You can’t make music if you don’t blow your own horn.
Trump’s TikTok Tics — repetition, self-absorption, incoherence, indifference to the truth — were on display in his recent interview with Andrew...
Here are the real-world implications for a few of Trump’s tough-guy campaign promises.
Despite initiatives around the country to exempt in vitro fertilization from grants of legal personhood, the Alabama Supreme Court decision is not...
Evidence of Donald Trump’s grifts — great and grotesque — is difficult to miss.
During the two-week recess, GOP leaders doubled down on another baseless, pointless, partisan witch hunt and made no visible progress on averting a...
The puppet-master here is of course former President Trump, who opposes any military assistance to Ukraine and pressured congressional Republicans to...
Trump seems more interested in returning to the White House, staying out of jail and punishing his enemies than improving the lives of his fellow...
It’s time to lift the curtain on a campaign based on false, irresponsible and self-contradictory claims.
In the new book “A Real Right to Vote,” Richard Hasen makes a compelling case for a constitutional amendment that protects and promotes the right...
Nobel Laureate Maria Resa recently predicted that by the end of 2024, “we will know whether democracy lives or dies.”
2023 was the most unproductive session for the U.S. Congress in at least 50 years.
Remembering their compassion, convictions and courage reminds us that self-absorbed, self-interested cynics need not dominate our public life.
A jury has ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million for defaming Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two poll workers in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2020.
It was the best option for his constituents, the House of Representatives and the country.
Unanimous consent, holds and filibusters thwart the will of the majority, increase partisan polarization, decrease the ability of the Senate to do its...