I’ll admit this up front: I’m not a huge fan of Tulsi Gabbard, the former congresswoman from Hawaii, former presidential candidate, and current media personality. And no, I’m not going to be one of these pundits playing around with making…
Let’s suppose, for a moment, that you are in charge of choosing the date for the Democratic National Convention — you know, the event where pledged delegates representing the states and superdelegates representing the establishment (a rather useless distinction, all things…
“A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.” These familiar words of Jesus have been applied to many political situations down through the centuries. Perhaps no such application was more apt than the admonition offered to the Democratic…
On Tuesday, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he had selected attorney Nicole Shanahan to be his nominee for vice president. Shanahan, a 38-year-old native of Oakland, California, is best known for having been married to Google…
I remember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain’s King George III may have ruled as a capricious monarch, but the intrepid colonists fought for the then-novel concept…
A few things seem clear, and much else murky, after the seismic shift that occurred on Thursday. Donald Trump, more because of Thursday than by encouraging public polling of recent weeks, runs as the favorite in the 2024 presidential election….
Terrisa Bukovinac is not your typical pro-lifer, and she isn’t your typical presidential candidate, either. Bukovinac is challenging President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary to protest the party’s pro-abortion stance and to bring attention to the victims of abortion. …
Imagine this scenario: It’s 2020, and a sitting Republican congressman has announced a primary challenge to President Donald Trump. What’s more, he has registered 16 percent support in a poll of New Hampshire voters just 12 days before that state’s…
Political polarization in politics is a feature of our political system today, but it wasn’t always this way. Conservatives began to dominate the GOP in 1964, and in 1968 the historic Democratic establishment began to be discredited and undermined. These…
