NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — From the very start of CPAC 2019, the dreaded “s” word was on everyone’s lips.
Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka declared that “socialism is here in America,” noting a recent study which found that 40 percent of Americans described themselves as socialist, to loud boos from the crowd. Larry Kudlow, director of the White House National Economic Council, asked attendees to “put socialism on trial,” and said...
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The Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest threat to separation of church and state in decades
The Supreme Court will hear two cases on Wednesday that never should have been filed in the first place.
The outcomes in American Legion v. American Humanist Association and Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, two consolidated cases considering the fate of a cross-shaped monument in Maryland, are as preordained as anything in the Supreme Court can be. Every single member of the Court’s conservative majority...
The Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest threat to separation of church and state in decades
The Supreme Court will hear two cases on Wednesday that never should have been filed in the first place.
The outcomes in American Legion v. American Humanist Association and Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, two consolidated cases considering the fate of a cross-shaped monument in Maryland, are as preordained as anything in the Supreme Court can be. Every single member of the Court’s conservative majority...
Bernie Sanders’ 2016 run changed politics. His aides say it also changed Bernie Sanders.
On April 30, 2015, the day Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced his first ever presidential run, more than three-quarters of the electorate had no idea who he was.
Sanders, of course, went on to give former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a run for her money in the 2016 Democratic party primaries. His rallies attracted both enormous crowds and a healthy supply of young voters, for whom he articulated — in a thick Brooklyn accent — a vision of a government that he said...
One Democrat in the race seems serious about governing, and it’s not Bernie Sanders
Whatever you think of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the frumpy Vermont senator deserves credit for expanding the substantive ambition of the Democratic presidential field. Sanders’ unexpectedly strong 2016 primary campaign proved that there is a hunger for big ideas like Medicare for All within the Democratic electorate, and it’s now likely that whoever the 2020 Democratic nominee is, they will support some form of universal single-payer health care.
Yet, for all of Sander...
Speeches, speculation and snowstorms: Here’s the weekly roundup on the 2020 field
Fractures have emerged among Democrats on Medicare-for-all and the "Green New Deal."
Trump said he’d cut the national debt ‘very quickly.’ It just hit a record $22 trillion.
The Treasury Department released a report Tuesday evening confirming that the national debt had hit a record $22 trillion — nearly four years after then-candidate Donald Trump promised his supporters he would reduce the national debt from $18 trillion, if elected president.
In its fiscal statement, the department noted the total public debt had reached $22.012 trillion, the first time it has surpassed $21 trillion in history. On the day Trump took office, it was $19.947 trilli...
Gazillionaire senators push to make it harder for non-rich people to serve in Congress
Let’s start this column off with a bold assertion. Paying lawmakers good salaries is one of our country’s most important progressive reforms because it means that they don’t have to be wealthy to serve. High congressional pay is a safeguard against corruption, not a sign of it.
Bear this assertion in mind as you consider this proposal.
This morning I co-sponsored a bill to end congressional pensions with @SenatorBraun.
Americans shouldn't...
Trump praises communist North Korea as future ‘great Economic Powerhouse’
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to extol the virtues and the future economic promise of North Korea, which has long been a brutal communist dictatorship and shows no sign of changing its ways.
“North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, will become a great Economic Powerhouse,” the president of the United States said. “He may surprise some but he won’t surprise me, because I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is. N...