Biden addresses Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
“There is a complete rupture in U.S.-Russia relations right now.”
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“There is a complete rupture in U.S.-Russia relations right now.”
You won’t learn anything about Ukraine from watching Tucker Carlson, but as a jaw-dropping demonstration of a biased vacuousness, it can’t be beat.
I was taken aback by a Thomas Friedman column in the New York Times, in which he dug up an interview with George F. Kennan, a great sage of Cold War politics and history.
The New Republic asked scholars how worried they are about political violence increasing ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Mazars bears at least some accountability for those financial statements, on which various parties relied in doing business with Trump.
I grant Greene half a point for making fun of herself while acknowledging her garble.
Political scientist Ivan Krastev developed his insights — and presumably his views of Russian-ness — from neighboring Bulgaria, where he grew up.
Because Lindsay Graham was the friend and sidekick of the late Sen. John McCain, Graham was, long ago, considered a relatively candid pol. That’s over. Waaay over.
And it’s getting harder and harder to see whether, when or how it gets to being anything else.
One of the weak spots in the system is the vagaries of an old and inadequate federal statute called the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
A lawsuit seeks to knock North Carolina U.S. House Rep. Madison Cawthorn off the ballot over his actions on January 6, 2021.
At the outset of the Senate, a simple majority could vote to end debate and force a vote. But that was so rarely necessary that such a power was left out of subsequent revisions of Senate rules.
According to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution … probably.
In 2020, Biden had some of the strongest Gen Z support of any recent Democratic candidate.
Republicans haven’t held a quarterly advantage this large since 1995.
Whether economic, meteorological or political.
An anocracy is a form of government that is neither a full democracy nor a full dictatorship, but has elements of both.
Trump’s reaction to President Joe Biden’s most direct criticism yet is as predictable as it it fantastical.
Everything President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said this morning about the January 6 insurrections falls into the category of true-but-not-new.
If you had to guess, of the 45 men who have been president of the United States, how many of them would you say served two and exactly two full terms, then retired?
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By Eric Black | Columnist
Jan. 5, 2022