Politics

During Fox News’ coverage of Wednesday’s impeachment hearings, Chris Wallace, once again, set himself apart from the mostly wall-to-wall pro-Trump coverage that the channel usually provides, giving viewers some straight analysis of US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland’s testimony. Wallace first said that Sondland’s motives were self-preservation and trying …

Mike Pence would very much like to be excluded from the Ukraine narrative. The Vice President is contradicting sworn impeachment testimony from European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland, who on Wednesday claimed he had raised concerns with Pence in September that U.S. military aid for Ukraine was being withheld, pending political …

Roger Stone, long-time friend and informal adviser to President Donald Trump, was found guilty Friday on charges related to his efforts to stymie Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of interference in the 2016 election. Stone was indicted on seven counts — obstruction of proceedings, witness tampering, and five counts of …

Jason Pye has never told anyone this story, not on the record. It’s about Justin Amash, the Michigan congressman. Earlier this year, Amash was the first Republican to call for President Trump’s impeachment. After his colleagues branded him a loser and a traitor, Amash quit the GOP and switched his …

Earlier this week, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham seemed at a loss on how to proceed in defending President Donald Trump on the Ukrainian scam. When asked if he’d read key portions of recent transcripts of the ongoing impeachment inquiry, Graham said, “I’ve written the whole process off. I think …

During a September unveiling ceremony for the newly built section of President Donald Trump’s wall in Otay Mesa, California, the president claimed that his wall was unscalable, even by professional mountain climbers. That, like many of Trump’s fables, was easily proven to be a false claim. And now his other …

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday that the platform will no longer host political advertisements, a major shift in the social media giant’s policy ahead of the 2020 elections. “We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally,” he wrote. “We believe political message reach should …

Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told the Washington Examiner that the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump “pains him” and that during his final days on the job, he warned the president not to hire a “yes man” or “you will be impeached.” Kelly said that while …

Hillary Clinton, not long ago the nominee of the Democratic Party, had some choice words about the state of American politics Friday. “I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the …

WASHINGTON — A recovering lobbyist once told me a story about how he did his job. He said he would sometimes stand outside of a committee room before a hearing, and when a friendly member of Congress would walk by, he’d slip them some talking points to use in the …