Trump mentioned a variety of tax relief ideas on the campaign trail. However, Republicans aren’t entirely unified on tax policy.
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Taken together, many of Trump’s proposed policies may fuel another “inflation nightmare.”
People born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens, but can vote in U.S. elections only when they live on the mainland. And those who live in Pennsylvania could prove pivotal come November 5th.
Understanding how false information travels and takes root is vital to understanding today's political environment.
Over the past century, so-called childless women have shown that they have a stake in children’s welfare, women’s welfare and the nation’s welfare.
Voting is your right. If you make your plan and follow the rules, you can cast your ballot and be certain that your vote will count.
Campaigning is now an industrial operation, concentrating on large population centers. But, ignoring rural areas cost Democrats dearly. A candidate in Mississippi shows what it really takes to gain votes in rural America.
Trump doesn’t like being laughed at. Ridicule reduces him from the dictator and tyrannical bully that he imagines himself to be. It exposes him not as he wants to be but as he is.
The Electoral College system essentially identifies the states where malicious people who want to alter or undermine the election results should focus their energies.
Vance filled his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" with selections from the greatest hits of “poornography”—violence, drugs, sex, obscenity and filth. But Vance himself was never actually impoverished.
Many members of Congress have embraced styles of communication that effectively undermine not just their opponents but the very democratic systems that give legitimacy to their own positions of status and power.
Roads, railways and bridges are experiencing increasing levels of damage and degradation because of the steady rise in temperatures. Left unconfronted, this situation will only worsen.
Kamala Harris has a real opportunity to contrast her humor and positive energy with a very dark vision from the GOP—without letting them dictate when it’s OK for her to laugh.
Whether Kamala Harris will be an effective president is a matter for the voters to decide in a few months. But as a legal matter, she is absolutely eligible to hold the office.
If there was any speculation that Republicans would revert to some form of traditional conservatism after Trump leaves politics, the prospect of a JD Vance presidency makes clear that the answer is no.
The intense attacks against Harris so far are only a fraction of what will come. Trump is skilled at both character assassination and political self-defense.