David Faris

The conservative members of the rogue, corrupt, illegitimate Supreme Court indicated last week that they might extend total immunity to former President Donald Trump.

A once abstract possibility has become increasingly plausible: that the Republican nominee for president will need to deliver his acceptance speech and conduct his campaign from prison.

The dumbest institution in the democratic world might not have long to live.

Since the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision, Democrats have overperformed expectations and have come out on top every time the question of reproductive rights has been put directly before the voters.

The inexplicable determination of the party's voters to pick unstable provocateurs might be the only path Democrats have to hanging onto their narrow and very much endangered Senate majority.

This month, presumptive Republican nominee for president Donald Trump took over the Republican National Committee (RNC) and then days later liquidated dozens of staff members.

For the first time since 2004, when George W. Bush was the incumbent Republican and Democrat John Kerry eliminated what remained of his competition, the two parties' presidential primaries are completely over after Super Tuesday.

President Biden's brutal polling numbers against disgraced former President Trump have been causing major controversy inside the Democratic Party's big tent.

Trump continues to misunderstand the nature of the NATO alliance, which is not like some kind of Netflix subscription that Europeans have to stay current on or else the United States cuts them off.

U.S. political dysfunction is the product of bad system design that has empowered a set of extremists in the GOP to grind problem-solving to a halt.

By the end of this week, hopes for compromise legislation unveiled by Senate leaders on Monday around immigration and the southern border are highly likely to be dashed.

There's a new conventional wisdom taking shape that the Biden administration has been too focused on Jan. 6 and the defense of democracy as a 2024 strategy.

There are a number of lessons to be learned from last week's Iowa Republican caucus, won by former President Donald Trump.

Is anyone paying attention to Monday's Iowa caucus? The feverish pitch of horse race polling, speculation and jockeying that usually precedes an Iowa caucus is mostly missing this year.

in the spirit of the holidays let's think about what might go right rather than wrong and why 2024 might actually rule.

Now that the Colorado Supreme Court has used the 14th Amendment to bar former President Donald Trump from the state's primary and presidential ballot, the real action begins.

Republicans are walking into their own Trump trap—one that might not just cost them the presidency but any ability to be competitive down ballot if they saddle themselves with a future inmate as their nominee.

Earlier this month, the astroturfed right-wing war on intellectual freedom in public schools met its Waterloo.

Democrats still have total issue ownership of health care, and the idea that it is going to be a strength next year for former President Donald Trump and the Republicans is impossible.

Johnson and his fellow radicals are like the political equivalent of pre-parenthood adults who look on in horror at the compromises that parents make to their kids to get through the day.

The former president is plotting his revenge on critics, planning to pursue a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown and looking to pink-slip everyone in the federal government who doesn't bend the knee to him.

The ill-fated presidential candidacy of former Vice President Mike Pence collided with empirical reality on Saturday and unfortunately for him, only reality survived.

By selecting policy hardliner and 2020 election truther Rep. Mike Johnson as their leader after more than three weeks of infighting, Republicans are telling us exactly who and what they are.

The inability of Republicans to choose a leader in the House is a lot of things at once—it's a tremendously telling indictment of the party's lack of interest and skill at the basic tasks of governing.

The Trump administration obliterated longstanding American policy in the region, handed a series of pinless policy grenades to President Biden and then took cover.

Yesterday Republicans issued one of their periodic and predictable reminders of why they cannot be trusted to govern.

Why should voters waste two hours of their lives listening to a bunch of future also-rans yap at each other as the elephant in the room stomps all over them?

The 2020 round of redistricting didn't just create new maps for the House in most states—it also changed some of their electoral vote numbers.

After half-heartedly resisting them for most of the year, McCarthy has faced reality—in order to remain speaker, he must do the Republican fringe's bidding.

The idea of using language in the 14th Amendment to remove Trump from 2024 ballots for president has gone from fringe idea to mainstream discussion point with shocking speed.