With the last primary in New York this Thursday, the 2018 general election is fully under way. Let’s take stock of the political landscape as the contest enters its final eight weeks.
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It didn’t take long for acrimony to emerge on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Democratic senators tag-teamed Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley from the very start of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
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There are two battles under way for control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The first and better known is over which party will have the majority when the 116th Congress meets in January.
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They show up for every presidential campaign: wannabes like George Papadopoulos, self-promoters like Carter Page, and worse, grifters like Paul Manafort and straphangers like Michael Cohen.
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United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, then a lifelong Democrat, electrified the 1984 Republican National Convention when she excoriated the recently completed Democratic Convention as a meeting of the “Blame America First” crowd.
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After GOP state Sen. Troy Balderson’s narrow victory in the special election for Ohio’s 12th Congressional District, Republicans understand what a 23-year-old war correspondent named Winston Churchill meant when he wrote, “Nothing in life is as exhilarati...
President Trump’s approach to trade has vacillated wildly since he took office.
When White House trade adviser Peter Navarro spoke about trade policy in March 2017, the administration appeared mercantilist.
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The savvy “Crystal Ball” election prognosticators, led by the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato, issued their latest midterm forecast Tuesday.
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