Bipartisan Hill anger with Saudis flares after Khashoggi
A defense contractor pressing for a U.S.-Saudi weapons sale visited Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker’s office recently. And as the Tennessee Republican tells it, he gave the man a…
GOP deploys Pelosi and Clinton to rouse the base in midterms
Republicans will face a massive gender gap at the polls this November, but they’re still betting big on an ad strategy that demonizes two of the most recognizable women in…
Democrats could control trade deal’s fate
Congress is unlikely to have the time or political will to approve a new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement by the end of the year — increasing the chances that President Donald…
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Democratic voters driven by desire to ice GOP h…
Fear and anger over the GOP’s health policies are driving a majority of Democratic voters to the polls in an effort to flip control of the House and put the…
Trump May Not Be Crazy, But the Rest of Us Are Getting There Fast
CNN before love-making is not his idea of a turn-on. But she can hardly turn it off—engrossed as she is in the latest unnerving gyrations of Washington. Who else to…
‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: GOP overwhelmed by Democratic cash
A deluge of Democratic spending in the final days of the battle for the House has triggered recriminations among Republicans and forced the party to lean on its biggest patron…
In Senate battleground, Native American voting rights activists fight back …
Native American voting rights activists in North Dakota have launched an audacious plan aimed at pushing back against a Supreme Court ruling that threatens the reelection of Sen. Heidi Heitkamp…
Republican Candidate in Pennsylvania Threatens to ‘Stomp All Over’ Opponent…
Standing by the side of the road three weeks before Election Day, Scott Wagner, the Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, wanted to send a message to the incumbent, Gov.…
He’s ‘Trashing American Values’: Biden Doesn’t Hold Back on Trump
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., in some of his harshest criticism of President Trump to date, said on Friday that the president was “trashing American values” and undermining…
The End of American Lip Service to Human Rights
As the consensus grows that the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, there’s been a growing backlash to the regime in Riyadh. High-profile luminaries…