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President Trump's "internal polling must be terrible, because he is now reaching out to people who want nothing to do with him and this time, it's not Melania," Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. On Monday night, Trump held a rally in New Mexico, wh…

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To the Editor: A photo in For California, Liberal Policies at Warp Speed (front page, Sept. 15) says Not Our President. A better slogan for Californias approach to the president would be Not Our Focus. Your reporters adeptly described the progressive polic…

Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly's new book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, will be published on Tuesday. In The New York Times, Pogrebin and Kelly reveal some of what they learned about Kavanaugh, including this: During the winter of her freshman year ... […

'I'm for Barack; I think the Obamacare worked,' Biden said. About 80,000 Kaiser Permanente employees will  strike for a week starting Oct. 14 after accusing their employer of enriching top executives, raising rates on patients and outsourcing jobs, the Coali…

by Lambert Strether of Corrente Elizabeth Warren posted her health care plan to her campaign site on September 12, the morning of the third Democrat presidential debate. This will be a short post, since there’s not much to it, and what is missing is more not…

Earlier this year, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was fairly candid in his assessment of why House Republicans struggled so badly in the 2018 midterms, in which the GOP lost its majority. Confirming what the evidence suggested, McCarthy priva…

For a good portion of last nights Democratic presidential debate in Houston, friends and usual allies Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were on the same page. Together they defended Medicare for All from criticisms offered by Joe Biden and the moderators. T…

(Bloomberg) -- House Republicans plan to run on tried-and-true issues in 2020: repealing Obamacare and reducing the national debt, even though the GOP fell short of both goals the last time the party had full control of Washington. The first thing we would d…

After a pair of crowded, multi-part Democratic debates that featured way too much of former Maryland congressman John Delaney, Thursday's ten-person affair felt decidedly less hectic and more focused. For the first time in the 2020 presidential primary, voter…