To put it mildly, the Democrats have had a complicated relationship with the white working class at least since passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But things are going to be simple in the run up to November’s midterm elections. Democrats don’t need to offer much. White working-class voters who su…
Trump’s loyal Republican lawmakers don’t often get corrected to their face when they play fast and loose with the facts, but CNN Saturday morning anchor Victor Blackwell had no such patience for MAGA Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.).Blackwell derailed Luna’s talking points at the start of the intervi…
A report published Friday reveals how President Donald Trump’s policies have jacked up prices for a host of potential Father’s Day gifts this year.Overall, the analysis by Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive economic think tank and advocacy group, finds that prices for popular Father’s Day gifts…
Visitors touring Washington D.C. cannot seem to shake off the feeling that President Donald Trump is stamping his presence on every nook and crevice — and they’re furious.Speaking with city visitors Julie and husband Robert on the edge of Lafayette Square, the Guardian noted a scuffed sign proclaimi…
Studies suggest there could be a reason your conservative friend has a bad habit.“New research published in the Journal of Marketing provides evidence that a person’s political ideology shapes their responses to addictive products,” reports PsyPost. “The findings suggest that political conservatism …
A Politico analysis argues that Trump’s second-term foreign policy signifies a fundamental departure from his nationalist messaging, undermining his political brand and effectiveness on the worldwide stage.The piece contends that Trump, who built his political identity around nationalist principles—…
This was the plan all along.That’s my strong suspicion after reading about and reporting on Senate Bill 105, a Kansas law passed last year that appears to give Republican power brokers a get-out-of-jail free card in this year’s U.S. Senate race.As reported Wednesday by Kansas Reflector, the law’s te…
Recent news disclosures are only adding to our understanding that for the Trump administration, grinding away at basic democratic values is a feature, not a bug.Any thinking that Donald Trump’s mass deportation strategy, for example, was such a high priority that he would suborn Constitutional right…
The Trump White House is attacking one of its loyal media figures after she berated Vice President JD Vance over President Donald Trump’s Iran deal.“The problem is, that it’s an absolutely disastrous deal that has brought us to our knees, weeks before our 250th birthday,” NewsNation host Batya Ungar…
“… ‘facts are stubborn things,’ as John Adams said. And the central fact of our time is that we are led — I am using that verb in the loosest sense — by a man whose idea of courage is bullying, whose idea of honor is knavery, whose idea of loyalty is convenience, whose idea of patriotism is self-ido…