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The unmaking of a president

Beginning with the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and through the re-election of Richard Nixon in 1972, political journalist and biographer Theodore H. White wrote books called “The Making of a President.” Were he alive today he might title one about Joe Biden “The Unmaking of a ...

Manchin frustrated over blocked border bill

CHARLESTON — Sen. Joe Manchin says he is incredibly discouraged over the failure of a border security package that had been negotiated by a bipartisan group of his colleagues. “Everything in this bill made the border a lot safer and helped us be able to control that border than what we ...

Republicans want the border to bleed

If House Republicans succeed in sinking the strongest border enforcement bill in a generation, they can go back to playtime, impeaching Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and spreading weird stuff about Taylor Swift being deployed for “psy ops.” Come November, though, the voting ...

House Republicans don’t actually want to fix the border

by Patricia Lopez House Republicans have a chance to prove they want to solve their declared border crisis, and not just as a means to inflame their base in an election year. Senate GOP leaders are supporting a bipartisan compromise on immigration, one that would give them much of ...

Democrats, make a border deal to save Ukraine

In exchange for approving a supplemental national-security bill providing aid to Israel and Ukraine, Republican lawmakers are insisting on a far-reaching crackdown on the flow of migrants at the U.S.’s southern border. Many Democrats continue to resist the GOP’s demands. They should ...

Build streamlined immigration, not a useless border wall

Political campaign season is starting to ramp up (not that it ever really ended), so we’re going to hear a lot more about illegal immigration and the border wall. Already, the national Republican Party has started running ads proclaiming the only way to fix America’s immigration ...