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Democrats were relieved when President Joe Biden finally pulled out of the presidential race. That was understandable. It was easy to see why they quickly coalesced behind Vice President Kamala Harris as Biden's replacement: Time was short, there's no standard party process for putting on a snap second round of primaries, and passing over a ...Read more

When Kamala Harris was elected vice president, I cried happy tears. Now, our country has the prospect of watching Harris become our first female president, and I'm trying to pinpoint and articulate exactly what this means to me.

President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump once, but I wasn't excited about a Biden ticket this ...Read more

For Americans of my generation, the Olympics have been miserable since the Soviet Union fell apart.

Back there in the land of the rotary phone, all good Americans wanted to see the United States win more medals than the Communists. It was fun, but it was serious. It was prideful. It was James Bond taking on Soviet evil. It was an ancient-...Read more

"I love you," Donald Trump told an audience of Christian conservatives on Friday. "You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not going to have to vote."

What does that mean?

That there will be no election in four years? That Donald Trump will not leave office in four years? ...Read more

On the tip of tongues in the Capitol: Vice President Kamala Harris' pick as her running mate in the 2024 presidential stakes. Everyone has a theory. All agree this is a happy problem to solve, a true test of judgment.

Democrats were tearing out their hair before frail President Joe Biden retired from his reelection race. Now the party has ...Read more

Suddenly, the presidential election has turned dynamic ... even fun!

The handoff from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris has not only energized Democrats, but it's also driving the Trump Party's top leaders absolutely crazy. Of course, that's a very short ride for most of them.

Take Andy Ogles, a far-right congressional goober from Tennessee who ...Read more

Donald Trump's claim that the 2020 election was "stolen" from him is not only a lie (no widespread voter fraud was detected in that election); it's a lie that breeds public mistrust in our electoral system. Today, he is already casting doubt on the 2024 election, saying he will accept the results "if everything is honest." The implication is ...Read more

Some years ago, John Connors Jr. was touring an inner-city Boston school that he had helped fund out of his own pocket. Connors was long legendary for his relentless, titanic philanthropy, always on 24/7 alert for ways to do as much good in as many ways for as many people as possible.

He'd created a major summer camp for underprivileged kids,...Read more

When Republicans took control of the House in January 2023, their first order of business was a bill was to cut additional IRS funding from the Inflation Reduction Act. President Joe Biden fought them off and managed to retain $60 billion of that needed money.

Had Republicans succeeded in keeping the IRS enforcement budget at starvation ...Read more

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is right. He called two of the most popular talking points Republicans are using right now "dumb" and "stupid." This is what he said to NBC News:

"Two attacks I've heard Republicans give that are totally stupid and dumb to do is the DEI attack, OK? The other attack that I would not do is saying that the ...Read more

Poor Joe. No. Poor us . Poor United States. Poor Democratic Party.

We've been suckered. While we were fearfully obsessing over the ethically challenged former President Donald Trump, a much more talented grifter -- President Joe Biden, along with his hidden passel of coconspirators -- conned the electorate, the news media and most of ...Read more

With his former vice president sidelined by that near-death experience on Jan. 6, former President Donald Trump had to name a new running mate at the recent Republican National Convention. But his campaign had scarcely announced the selection of J.D. Vance, the very junior senator from Ohio, before they began to feel pangs of regret.

Not only...Read more

If I don't schedule downtime as a way to set boundaries and focus on the things that matter to me, then it just doesn't happen, which leaves me feeling burned out and overwhelmed. Let me explain.

I had taken Monday off work and planned to spend it alone. Maybe I'd read a book or catch up on chores around the house and my favorite podcast at ...Read more

When the Olympic Games come sprinting into Paris for their most recent sweaty installment, among those carrying the Olympic torch will be Snoop Dogg, American rapper and stoner superieure.

Snoop's leg of the run will take him through the streets of Parisian suburb Saint-Denis. It's a rough neighborhood, the kind of place where someone will ...Read more

It all started with a claim by Anthony Rapp that while attending a party in the home of Kevin Spacey in 1986, the actor got drunk, threw him on a bed and jumped on top of him. Also an actor, Rapp was 14 at the time, and Spacey was 26. Spacey denied that happened.

In the wake of the charges, Spacey's talent agency and publicist dropped him. ...Read more

He can't help himself.

On Thursday night, Donald Trump was supposed to give a unifying address, recounting the assassination attempt that he survived and uniting not only his own party but the country. He was supposed to convince independent and undecided voters that he was not the angry and bitter victim that he displays on social media, but...Read more