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There was an extraordinary story in Politico this week. A group of Democratic officials and union leaders told journalists that Donald Trump was competitive in New York State. In 2020, [...]

Democrats had a golden summer. The Dobbs decision led to a surge of voter registrations. Voters handed Democrats a string of sweet victories in unlikely places -- Alaska and Kansas, [...]

One of the stunning facts of the age is the continued prominence of Donald Trump. His candidates did well in the G.O.P. primaries this year. He won more votes in [...]

We're learning not to underestimate the guy. Many of our best presidents have been underestimated. Truman was seen as the tool of a corrupt political machine. Eisenhower was supposedly a [...]

The party still has a strong vibrant center. You've probably heard of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but you may not have heard of Derek Kilmer. Kilmer grew up in a timber region [...]

A four-day showing of apocalypse now. I've been thinking about the two families we've encountered over the past two weeks. The Biden family is emotionally open, rendered vulnerable by tragedy [...]

Imagining Jan. 20, 2021. The first thing you'll notice is the quiet. If Joe Biden wins this thing, there will be no disgraceful presidential tweets and no furious cable segments [...]

If he fouls this up, we're doomed. I don't know about you, but the election results this week filled me with more hope than I've felt in years. It felt [...]

Here's why he is still winning. It was yet another epic failure of political punditry. Go back to the early months of Joe Biden's presidential campaign and read what the [...]

And not for the reasons you think. Those of us in journalism primarily do one thing: cover events. We report and opine about events like election campaigns, wars and crimes. [...]

A hard but necessary choice to save the country. This is a memo for the politically homeless. It's a memo to those of us who could never support Donald Trump [...]

A look back at American politics from the year 2050. A crisis of legitimacy swept across American politics in the second decade of the 21st century. Many people had the [...]

I could never in a million years vote for Donald Trump. So my question to Democrats is: Will there be a candidate I can vote for? According to a recent [...]

Pete Buttigieg has some kind of magic right now. His campaign bio, ''Shortest Way Home,'' was the 25th-best-selling book on Amazon when I checked on Monday. That put him just [...]

How do you answer hatred? How should you respond when your political opponents assault you with insult, stereotype and contempt? That's the moral question we all have to answer during [...]

I often wonder who didn't love Donald Trump. I often wonder who left an affection void that he has tried to fill by winning attention, which is not the same [...]

The article presents the discussion on rapidly evolving American cultural values influence political figures, highlighting how Kamala Harris is aligning with current cultural shifts while Donald Trump appears out of sync. Topics include the changing cultural zeitgeist from the 1980s to the present, Trump's rise and decline in relevance; and how contemporary values shape political dynamics and perceptions of candidates.

Hillary Clinton made a very pertinent comment this week: '''Why aren't I 50 points ahead?' you might ask.'' Indeed we might! Clinton is running against a man whose approval ratings [...]

I'm beginning to think this whole sordid campaign is being blown along by an acrid gust of distrust. The two main candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, are remarkably distrustful. [...]

Once, I seem to recall, we had philosophical and ideological differences. Once, politics was a debate between liberals and conservatives, between different views of government, different views on values and [...]

Does anybody else have the sense that Donald Trump is slipping off the rails? His speeches have always had a rambling, free association quality, but a couple of the recent [...]

Donald Trump has done something politically smart and substantively revolutionary. He is a Republican presidential candidate running against free trade and, effectively, free markets. By putting trade at the top [...]

In any organization there are some people who serve at the core. These insiders are in the rooms when the decisions are made. Hillary Clinton, for example, is now at [...]

In March Hillary Clinton told a CNN interviewer, ''We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.'' That was a true but dumb thing [...]

Donald Trump built his campaign on the promise to build a wall along the Mexican border. The idea is attention-grabbing (and unworkable). But the striking thing is that it's not [...]

In 1997, Michael Wayne Haley was arrested after stealing a calculator from Walmart. This was a crime that merited a maximum two-year prison term. But prosecutors incorrectly applied a habitual [...]

There are two types of Machiavellians in politics, Selfish Machiavellians and Kind Machiavellians. The Selfish ones are the ones we usually think of -- the nakedly ambitious people who are [...]

Carly Fiorina's presidential campaign has been built on confrontational moments. With impregnable self-confidence and a fearless intensity, she has out-Trumped Trump and landed the most telling and quotable blows on [...]

Hillary Clinton has obviously had a bad summer. She's losing in New Hampshire to Bernie Sanders, even among women. She's barely leading him in Iowa. In a Quinnipiac poll of [...]

Political audiences always like patriotic rhetoric, but as several reporters have noticed, this year's Republican audiences have a special hunger for it. The phrase ''American exceptionalism'' has become a rallying [...]

Over the past month, Mitt Romney has aggressively appealed to moderate voters. President Obama, for some reason, hasn't. But, in what he thought was an off-the-record interview with The Des [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSo it was ''The Honeymooners'' versus ''Family Ties''; Ed Norton versus Alex Keaton. What we saw Thursday night in the vice-presidential debate wasn't only an argument about policy, it [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to use the opening minutes of this debate a little differently. I'd like to say that I wish everybody could have known my father, George [...]

Let's say you are president in a time of a sustained economic slowdown. You initiated a series of big policies that you thought were going to turn the economy around, [...]

Ottumwa, Iowa The Republican Party is the party of the white working class. This group -- whites with high school degrees and maybe some college -- is still the largest [...]

Chicago The people who run the federal government spend almost no time outdoors. They get driven from home to work and move through corridors from meeting to meeting. So it [...]

Mark Kirk has had a brilliant career. He graduated from Cornell, obtained a master's degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from Georgetown. He worked at [...]

Last night, the Democratic presidential candidates took part in yet another debate. Amid all this buzzing, blooming confusion, it becomes ever harder to keep the candidates and their traits clear […]

As I watched the images of Iraqis lining up to vote, even in the face of terrorists who threatened to wash the streets with blood, I couldn't help thinking of […]

Presents a look back at the campaign and the candidates for the November 2, 2004, election in the United States. Factors that may influence the author to vote against President George W. Bush; faults in the decisions made by the Bush administration on local and foreign matters; Observation that Senator John Kerry's moves since he was elected to public office was for career advancement and that the Democratic Party is not interested in reforming the entitlement programs that are causing problems for the government.

Looks at the political campaign of presidential candidate, John Kerry. Description of Kerry's speeches; Different kinds of people who gathered to hear what Kerry has to say and believed in.

Analyzes traits of John Kerry. Benefits of his tedious trait; Analysis on Kerry's campaign; Unifying the Democratic Party.

The article offers information related to the views of author regarding the political campaign of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.

An editorial is presented on the midterm election campaign in the U.S. wherein the America people talk about the political system under the administration of President Donald Trump.

The author reflects on the political campaign of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump which revealed information on his life and germophobe personality.