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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

This last week of June 2024 will go down in history as one of the most consequential in American politics.

Thursday, June 27, in particular will go down as one of the most consequential debates in American elections — perhaps even more so than Nixon/Kennedy, or Lincoln/Douglas.

That’s because the CNN debate between President Biden and ...Read more

The presidential election is less than five months away, and the Democratic National Convention that will officially nominate sitting President Biden is exactly two months away.

You’d think by now, and with these events fast-approaching, we’d have finally moved through the stages of grief to acceptance that Joe Biden, for all his flaws and ...Read more

It’s nearly two years since the conservative Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision that had protected access to abortion for nearly 50 years, sparking a seismic series of events in American political history.

And if overturning Roe was ...Read more