Originally posted by Arizona Republic Online Opinion: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is not a maverick like John McCain, who was still a stout Republican. She will pay for that with Democrats. Democrats have seen this movie before, and it will not end well for Arizona Sen....
Originally published by Chicago Tribune’s News Service Commentators portray Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a more organized and calculating Donald Trump. In reality, DeSantis most resembles Richard Nixon — disciplined, stiff and intense. Both lack Trump’s charisma...
Originally published on RealClearPolicy.com The Republican Court is systematically eroding working-class prosperity. Its crusade receives little attention, but gives noncollege men and women a huge stake in the midterm elections. Liberty of Contract Doctrine The...
Originally published on RealClearPolicy.com President Biden may have the rarest of political openings — the possibility of becoming only the third administration since the Civil war to retain or pad its House and Senate margins in a midterm election (1934 and...
Originally published on RealClearPolicy.com A spate of 2022 Supreme Court rulings at odds with national sentiment has created an opportunity for the Democratic Party to avoid the typical midterm election drubbing. Incumbent administrations rarely avoid midterm...
Originally published on RealClearPolicy.com Inflation has slowed to below 5% during the last year through April according to the latest core personal consumption expenditure price index which excludes wartime volatility in the energy and food sectors. And core...
Originally published on RealClearPolicy.com American democracy faces numerous threats including pay-to-play governance, voter suppression, a deceit-infested information universe, politicized Supreme Court, Republicans covetous of one-party rule, along with...
President Biden needs reelection of a Democratic House and expansion of the Democratic Senate in 2022 to fulfil his agenda. He can accomplish that by changing the election dynamics just as President Harry Truman did in 1948, famously besting the pollsters and pundits...
Originally published at RealClearPolicy.com Selecting a president on the basis of the national popular vote is an elemental characteristic of democracy long denied America. An amendment to the Electoral Count Act of 1887 — perhaps as a component of the pending voting...
Originally posted on Real Clear Policy Supreme Courts have frequently been ideologically divided, but the five justices appointed by Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump (plus Justice Clarence Thomas) have created the first partisan Supreme Court in American...