There’s no great mystery about what Attorney General William Barr did Wednesday during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He knows that Senate Democrats don’t have the votes or the power to do anything substantial to impair his tragic choice to protect President Trump from the substantiated allegations against …
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WASHINGTON — Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington state, has moved closer to entering the 2020 presidential race. And he’s betting on the idea that Americans care enough about the existential threat of our time — climate change — to elect a president with a laser-like, almost singular focus …
Read More »The Power of Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi sits in a black-leather booth at Americana, a burger bistro in downtown Des Moines, radiating optimism. “We’re in a very good place,” she says of Democrats‘ odds in November. Special-election results suggest more than 100 seats in the House of Representatives are in play, and Democrats need less …
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