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When Dick Durbin Defended the Right to Life Jul. 13, 2022
Dick Durbin was the man in charge. It was Jan. 17, 1982, when the Springfield Right to Life Committe... Read More
Hartzler Is the Latest Republican to See Trump Loyalty Repaid With Humiliation Jul. 13, 2022
If there is one lesson that Republican politicians should have learned well by now, it's that former... Read More
How Tim Scott Rose From Poverty to Become Our Only Black GOP Senator Jun. 07, 2022
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Tim Scott knows the hassle that comes with being both black and c... Read More
Manchin Says the Filibuster Can Spur Bipartisanship. If Not Now, on Guns, Then When? Jun. 02, 2022
Centrist Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona continue frustr... Read More
Senator Scrappy: New Hampshire's Maggie Hassan Tells Mitch McConnell to Bring It On May. 24, 2022
Every politician alive claims they aren't afraid of a tough fight. Sometimes it's true, and sometime... Read More
It's Not Exactly Trump's Republican Party May. 20, 2022
Is it Donald Trump's Republican Party? You can make the case it is, as partisan Democrats do, from t... Read More
The Accidentally Elected May. 20, 2022
The last time the American economic situation was this bad, then-President James Earl Carter Jr. got... Read More
Et Tu, J.D.? May. 04, 2022
In 2016, "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance did not have a lot of good things to say about Donald T... Read More
How Far the Party Fell Into the Abyss: From Hatch to McCarthy Apr. 27, 2022
WASHINGTON — The Hon. Orrin Hatch, a staunchly conservative Republican senator from Utah, is n... Read More
Orrin Hatch's Beltway Barnacle Legacy Apr. 26, 2022
Seven-term former U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah died last weekend, and accolades came pouring in fro... Read More
Mitt Romney on Protecting the Innocent Apr. 13, 2022
When Mitt Romney was running for the Senate in Massachusetts in 1994 against incumbent Sen. Ted Kenn... Read More
Dangerous Attacks on Freedom Apr. 07, 2022
In the give and take at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on President Joseph R. Biden's nomin... Read More
The Next Supreme Court Justice Apr. 07, 2022
The announcements by Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney that they would join fellow Republican Sen... Read More
When Will Democrats Get Serious About Repealing Pot Prohibition? Instead of Building on Republican Support for Federalism, They Seem Determined to Alienate Potential Allies Apr. 06, 2022
When Republicans who oppose federal marijuana prohibition vote against your legalization bill, you p... Read More
GOP Opposition to Jackson Only Helps Further Politicize the Supreme Court Apr. 06, 2022
The absurd chorus of Republican rationalization for opposing Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jac... Read More
Racing Away From Our Past With Judge Jackson Apr. 06, 2022
WASHINGTON — The vortex of our vexed record on race came out with the cherry blossoms. These ... Read More
McConnell Is a Rock Star; Brooks Is a Groupie Mar. 23, 2022
As he seeks to fill an opening U.S. Senate seat, Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., boasted he wanted "to fire ... Read More
Hawley Goes for the Jugular Against the First Black Woman Supreme Court Nominee Mar. 18, 2022
Missouri's junior senator, Josh Hawley, is vying for a starring role in the upcoming Senate confirma... Read More
Hawley Shrugged off Russia Before the Invasion, Now Slams Biden for Weakness Mar. 09, 2022
Just weeks ago, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley excoriated the Biden administration for what he said was ... Read More
