by Steven Roberts “Why Nikki Haley Scares the Biden Campaign,” headlines the New Republic. Vanity Fair asks: “Nikki Haley: Is She the Republicans’ Last, Best Hope for 2024?” Political analyst Mark McKinnon answers that question: “Increasingly, it seems like Nikki Haley ...
Tonight’s GOP primary debate in Milwaukee for the Republican candidates for the presidency will be more a Q&A session than a classic debate, but that’s OK. Viewers will have a chance to take the measure of the men — and woman — who wish to become president. Each candidate ...
by Jonathan Bernstein Republicans have been responsible for every extended government shutdown in U.S. history, and they will probably add to their total this fall. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll helps explain why: Republican voters tend to have outlandish or even ...
Remember when Republicans would boldly stand up to any attempts to tell capitalists how to run their businesses? The GOP still claims to be the pro-business party, but you wouldn’t know it from the way many in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail are harassing corporations for ...
It’s been a while since we’ve heard the kind of optimism contained in Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) announcement of a presidential run. Usually, it is gloom and doom, racism, white supremacy, claims that Republicans want to eliminate Social Security and the rest of the ...
by Robert Reich I want to start today with a bit of history that sheds some light on what’s happening in Washington this week, and what Biden should do about the debt-ceiling crisis created by Kevin McCarthy’s Republican House. On Oct. 22, 1985, Treasury Secretary James A. ...