Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal published Thursday evening in which he defended his “emotional” testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. “I was very emotional last Thursday, more so than I have ever been. I might have been too emotional at times. I…
Sixty House Democratic candidates broke the $1 million mark in fundraising from July through September, a whopping total fueling the party’s campaign to retake the House in November. Thirty of those candidates exceeded $2 million raised last quarter, while eight of them brought in more than $3 million over that period. Three of those $3…
Jeanie Brakebill voted for President Trump. But when a conservative canvasser showed up at the 63-year-old’s door here recently, she confided that she had grown tired of Trump’s confrontational brand of politics and was leaning toward voting Democratic in the upcoming midterm election. “I would vote for Bredesen, to help out Tennessee — even if…
AS SENATORS prepare to vote this week on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, they, and the rest of the country, must wonder: Which Brett M. Kavanaugh are they evaluating? Is it the steady, conservative jurist he was reputed to be before his confirmation saga? Or is it a partisan operative harboring suspicions and resentments…
President Trump and his conservative allies now see their effort to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as central to salvaging the Republican Party’s fortunes in the midterm elections, and hope to use the fervent liberal opposition to his nomination to the Supreme Court as a graphic example of the threat posed by a Democratic return…
The church gathering was a campaign event intended to boost the candidacy of Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican candidate for governor, but it wasn’t long before the television cameras turned to a rally outside on the street supporting Mr. DeSantis’s Democratic opponent, Andrew Gillum. Sweating through their union T-shirts on a 90-degree day, the protesters in…
It was in 2014, after a Supreme Court decision allowing Hobby Lobby to deny employees contraceptive coverage, when Karen Smythe began to consider running for office. For Anna Kaplan, the decision stemmed from her experience as a political refugee from Iran, and her appreciation of the opportunities for women in the United States. For Janet…
PEG 12th Congressional District Newsletter #79, Thursday, October 4, 2018 99 weeks down, 5 weeks to midterm elections URGENT: Register yourself, then help others Source
The word liberal was one of the many casualties of the Vietnam era. A generation before, Americans competed to own the term. Anti–New Deal Republicans like Senator Robert Taft claimed that they, not their opponents, were the “true liberals.” Former President Herbert Hoover preferred the term historical liberal. The social turmoil of the 1960s and…
The Museum of African-American History and Culture is in part a catalog of cruelty. Amid all the stories of perseverance, tragedy, and unlikely triumph are the artifacts of inhumanity and barbarism: the child-size slave shackles, the bright red robes of the wizards of the Ku Klux Klan, the recordings of civil-rights protesters being brutalized by…