The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), a big-dollar fundraising group affiliated with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), isn’t helping two of McConnell’s biggest critics in the Senate GOP conference — Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rick Scott (Fla.).
This has prompted grumbling from conservatives who say McConnell has too much power over Senate Republican fundraising and point out that Cruz, in particular, a longtime McConnell critic, will be heavily outspent by h...
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Voters need a second presidential debate that looks very different than the first
In every presidential election year since 1976, the main contenders have had at least two debates; in many years, there have been three.
However, we might only get one between the two nominees in 2024, now that former President Donald Trump has announced he will not debate President Kamala Harris again, claiming the original ABC debate was “rigged” against him.
That’s not good enough. If this is indeed the most important election o...
America is less polarized than it seems. Politicians need better data.
Polarization, a scholar has quipped, is a problem that no one can explain or solve.
We know that a vast ideological gulf now separates most Democratic from most Republican politicians. We also know that highly polarized politicians poorly represent many of their constituents, who remain comparatively moderate. But we’re not sure why polarization has arisen or what we can do about it.
As a pathology of American politics that has developed over decades, polarizat...
Telehealth companies lean into weight loss drug race
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Republicans fear new ObamaCare war
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McConnell hits Trump’s tariff push
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Our housing system isn’t working — we need a public option
The current U.S. housing system creates tremendous profits, but it doesn’t work for everyone.
Half of the nation's 45 million renters pay more than a third of their paychecks to landlords. Every year, landlords file 3.6 million evictions, and 6.7 million live in substandard housing — realities that disproportionately affect people of color. Homeownership doesn’t guarantee protection either, with almost 20 million owners in a s...
The Electoral College endangers the republic, but don’t blame the Framers
Our presidential elections suffer from a crisis of confidence.
Scores of anxious Americans await Nov. 5 with grave fears about integrity and fairness. Democrats decry the possibility of a candidate winning without a popular vote majority, and more than half of Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen.
Many factors have brought us to this moment, but the strange mechanism known as the Electoral College ranks high among them.
Twice in the last ...
Harris’s agenda mirrors the Democratic Socialists of America
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate, is a communist and Marxist and refers to her as “Comrade Kamala.” While it’s doubtful that Trump’s name calling helps him win over voters, if he has to call her something, he should have tagged her as a socialist. That’s because Harris’s major policy proposals are almost identical to those promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
The DSA lists 10 policy positions under t...
Morning Report — Trump follows his own drummer. Is it working?
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