After years of public and private ridicule from both sides of the aisle, Vice President Kamala Harris had a golden opportunity on Wednesday, July 24, to establish a fresh narrative. Two days after the so-called palace coup that shoved Joe Biden out and Harris in, she had the chance to burnish her credentials as a […]

Let’s be honest. From the moment she came into sharp focus upon being selected by Joe Biden as vice president, Kamala Harris has been a laugh line. Why? The widespread perception that she was picked over more qualified candidates strictly because of her race and gender. Her evident lack of substance revealed through her signature […]

It has been said that everything in life is timing. A solid or spectacular body of work can be deflated by a single moment or single decision. Noteworthy or even legendary careers can crash and burn in the blink of an eye. Donald Trump found that out on a warm night in Butler, PA, when […]

Bowing to relentless pressure from members of his own party more than three weeks after his disastrous debate performance on June 27, President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he will not seek re-election. With three and a half months until Election Day and one month until the Democratic National Convention, this represents a seismic […]

It’s all over now. The only question is if Joe Biden realizes it. Whether he stubbornly clings to the shattered fragments of his doomed candidacy and insists on continuing his bid for a second term, or he finally cries uncle under the deadweight of every party leader and dozens of Democrats in Congress calling publicly […]

There is a phenomenon in Christian circles commonly known as being born again. It means an unbelieving or agnostic person is mysteriously, and often suddenly, imbued with a powerful faith. The words of scripture, once meaningless or threatening, spring to life. It is a truism among the faithful that such born-again believers often possess a […]

Those of us who lived through the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the horrifying assassination of John F. Kennedy remember the aftermath as if it was yesterday. In both cases, as in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, a sense of sadness, depression even, overcame America. People […]

Donald Trump was in the midst of a typically boisterous rally in Butler, PA, on Saturday evening, July 13, celebrating his status as front-runner for president en route to a triumphant coronation at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee when shots rang out. Eyewitnesses reported a series of pops that sounded similar to initial reports […]

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That saying attributed to 19th-century British politician Lord Acton should have an addendum: Absolute power is all but impossible to wrest from an unwilling subject. In fact, when President George Washington decided not to seek a third term and voluntarily handed power over to John Adams, it represented […]

In the days following the debate that will live in infamy, many panicking Democrats appeared to be satisfying themselves with the notion that, if they dump Joe Biden, everything will be just fine for the 468 Democrats running for the Senate and House. They have used as evidence the fact that down-ballot Senate candidates in […]

Joe Biden hasn’t budged an inch. But neither has the growing chorus of alarm everywhere on the left outside of the DC beltway. It has been said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and there is nothing new under the sun. But even if you believe, as Henry […]

Maybe the Democrats should have realized what the nation had discovered as far back as 1988, and then again in 2008. Those years were the building blocks of an endlessly ambitious quest for the highest office in the land by a man who bragged from an early age that he would one day become president. […]

To understand the stakes of tonight’s first-ever, earliest-ever debate between a sitting president and a former commander-in-chief, you need to review just how much things have changed since the last time Donald Trump and Joe Biden went head-to-head on the debate stage almost four years ago. It would be fair to say the political landscape […]

As next Thursday’s debate between two presidents approaches, the prevailing sentiment among political analysts on both sides – with good reason – is that both the network hosting the debate and the new rules agreed upon by the two campaigns are heavily skewed in favor of Joe Biden. For starters, despite Trump and Republicans’ previous […]

Political analysts have rightly focused on the seven states considered battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election. Those seven – North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada in the Sun Belt; Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin in the Rust Belt – will collectively determine the outcome of this battle for the ages between two presidents measured side-by-side. But […]

By now, we have gotten used to this – Hillary Clinton inserting her foot firmly in her mouth. This time, she compared a potential victory by Donald Trump and his deplorable supporters in November to a Nazi triumph in World War II: “Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on […]

With polls following the conviction of Donald Trump not moving in the direction Democrats had hoped, at least in the week following their cherished verdict, indications are that the panicked party is devoting much of its attention to maintaining control of the Senate. This apparent though subtle shift away from an overwhelming emphasis on the […]

There are, obviously, two radically different schools of thought about what transpired in that infamous Manhattan courtroom on May 30, 2024. Most on the right are claiming the guilty verdict – one crime split into 34 counts for maximum effect – will actually make Trump more electable than ever because they believe, as Trump has […]

Show me the man, and I will show you the crime. So said the right-hand man to Joseph Stalin, architect of the infamous show trial, the centerpiece of the Soviet system of justice. Today, many Americans are wondering whether their own justice system is any less capricious or politically biased. In less than 12 hours […]

Even as pundits everywhere work overtime to calculate the political effect of the upcoming verdict in the Trump trial – will an acquittal, conviction or hung jury help, hurt or make little difference for the 45th president? – there are more conventional and reliable methods for gauging the state of a presidential campaign. And the […]

As the nation holds its collective breath for a few more days waiting for a verdict in the trial of Donald Trump in Manhattan, the right appears more confident of a Trump acquittal than the left does about a conviction of their archenemy. But all of the collective opinion to date is based on millions […]

If you were paying attention to the Trump trial in New York last week, you likely noticed that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) appeared in support of the 45th president, a sign of the GOP closing ranks around its presumptive nominee. But even more visible was a parade of vanquished Republican presidential candidates […]

As the much-anticipated cross-examination of ex-convict and former Trump associate Michael Cohen unfolds in Donald Trump’s so-called hush money trial, the jury is faced with a fundamental question: Whom to believe, Trump or Cohen? As expected, Trump’s defense team aggressively questioned Cohen’s credibility, given his numerous liabilities and his open desire to see Trump in […]

In the fog of Election Night 2016, you will remember that Pennsylvania and Michigan were almost universally hailed as the states that put Donald Trump over the top and into the White House. While the shock of that night has yet to wear off for either friend or foe, both states were thought to be […]