With a larger Senate majority, Mitch McConnell feels empowered to remake the federal judiciary in a far-right mold.
Donald Trump presents an extraordinary challenge to democratic governance. And Mitch McConnell has utterly failed to check him.
Forced to permit a truncated FBI probe of charges against Brett Kavanaugh, Senate leaders have scant interest in the findings.
Today's Republican Party, led by such moral midgets as Trump, McConnell and Ryan, is hostile to the legacy of Lincoln.
Having delivered a stolen Supreme Court nomination for Donald Trump, the cynical Senate majority leader now delivers another to this constitutional ignoramus.
Overshadowed and bulldozed by Trump since his inauguration are the two men who might have curbed his worst excesses. But what kind of men are Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell?
Republican leaders and senior White House officials are so concerned that Trump is leading the party towards a midterm election disaster that they have staged an intervention with him, hoping to get him to change ...
If the recent brief government shutdown accomplished nothing else, it sent Donald Trump into hiding for three days, no small blessing. Somebody convinced him that golfing in Florida would look bad, and his minders didn’t ...
Reprinted with permission from Shareblue. After Donald Trump and the Republicans spent three days failing to get their act together, Democrats helped end the Trump shutdown in exchange for a promise that DREAMers will finally get a ...
Negotiating a path Senator Chuck Schumer calls “neutral and fair to all sides,” Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill reached a deal to re-open the government on Monday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other ...
Reprinted with permission from Shareblue. For any Republicans still in denial about how the looming government shutdown might play politically, a new poll confirms their worst fears. “A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds substantially greater Republican ...
Jeff Danziger lives in New York City. He is represented by CWS Syndicate and the Washington Post Writers Group. He is the recipient of the Herblock Prize and the Thomas Nast (Landau) Prize. He served ...
Jeff Danziger lives in New York City. He is represented by CWS Syndicate and the Washington Post Writers Group. He is the recipient of the Herblock Prize and the Thomas Nast (Landau) Prize. He served ...
It’s always fun when The Daily Show compares and contrasts past statements by politicians with what they’re actually doing now. So as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan prepare to ram ...