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It’s the go-to play nowadays.

If you’re a politician collared for alleged crimes, feign indignation, call it a “conspiracy,” blame the “corrupt” Department of Justice, and refuse to resign.

New York Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on five federal charges related to 2021 campaign contributions, wire fraud, and bribery. The ...Read more

She’s nervous. But she’s got three kids at home, and in this economy, it’s a job, and she needs it.

She didn’t know just how dangerous it would be, though. And now, as the big day gets closer and closer, she’s just hoping to survive it.

She was prepared for the worst. She’d had a five-hour training session in which local law ...Read more

After months of following the many twists and turns of this presidential election, we’ve all been zooming in on some very particular voters who will ultimately decide who wins in November.

It’s the undecided, moderate and independent voters in seven ...Read more

Believe it or not, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will meet next week in Philadelphia — for the first time.

That’s right — Harris, who entered the U.S. Senate at the same time that Trump entered the White House, who had breakout moments during her cross-examination of Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett ...Read more

After enduring weeks of blistering criticism from Republicans, the Trump/Vance ticket, and members of the media (including this one), Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz are finally sitting down for a joint interview on Thursday night by CNN’s Dana Bash.

Despite Democratic pushback that this wasn’t even necessary, but...Read more

After covering six presidential elections and five midterm elections for more than 20 years, I’ve long believed that there are many reasons why a person votes the way they do. And all are valid.

Many vote on pocketbook issues, and, especially in times of economic pain, who could blame them for prioritizing things like gas prices over esoteric...Read more

On Monday afternoon, former President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was on Fox Business discussing the state of Trump’s campaign with former Trump adviser Larry Kudlow.

You’d assume the two Trump allies would have been heaping lavish praise on their favorite candidate. Instead, it was some tough love.

Conway ...Read more

It’s likely many people turned on their television sets or scrolled through social media on Tuesday morning and said, “Who?”

Tim Walz, the second-term governor of Minnesota who burst onto the scene over the past few weeks while campaigning for Vice President Kamala ...Read more

“Weird.” It’s the new Democratic talking point being used to describe former President Donald Trump and his newly minted running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance.

It was first used by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the wake of newly-...Read more

After what was, by all accounts, a resoundingly successful Republican National Convention, the party appears to be over for former President Donald Trump and the GOP.

The weeks leading up to the RNC were good for Republicans. Very good.

President Biden had suffered through an agonizing and, some would say, fatal debate performance. ...Read more

In many ways, the selection of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as former President Donald Trump’s running mate is odd and seemingly impolitic.

After all, Vance is another white guy from a state Trump won twice and is sure to win again — hardly a value-add. He’s brash and often unlikeable. Despite his humble beginnings, he’s often described as a ...Read more

Common sense. We all know what it means, but common as it is, definitions and ideas of it have changed over centuries.

Aristotle connected common sense directly to the senses, and the ways in which we use different tastes, colors, feelings, smells and sounds to collectively perceive and categorize things.

Descartes agreed with Aristotle that ...Read more