US Politics

In 2016, a fractured Democratic Party and a disliked candidate handed the presidency to Donald J. Trump. This time around, it's the GOP in disarray.

Women have always been active participants in the Modern American Libertarian Movement. Maybe they’re just not all being counted in those “Where are they?” surveys.

This article is about Donald Trump's use of the Power of Positive Thinking and how he misuses it to play in his sometimes-make-believe world as President of The United States.

A brief opinion of why the public seems to have deserted Trump in the upcoming election.

How politicians win elections by building a straw man, then knocking it down.

When a man’s quest for vengeance turned epic.

The divide of liberals in conservatives is brought up constantly in the United States' media. There is a common misconception that liberalism is leftist. In this article, I explain why liberalism is not left-wing.

The recent revelation that Russia offered the Taliban bounties for American soldiers exposes a major deficiency in the White House.

Philosophically, ideologically, politically collectivists hone in on the universality of human nature while libertarians focus on the individuality of human nature.

Shaun McCutcheon changed history with his lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission. Politics has never been the same.

Just a common person having the basic cognitive ability to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate formal and official discourse.

Citizens United v. FEC fundamentally changed the definition of citizenship leading to ever more corruption and partisanship.

Andrew Cuomo follows in the footsteps of his late father Mario Cuomo, the 52nd Governor of New York. Brother Chris Cuomo is a CNN journalist.

After the chaotic rollercoaster ride of the last four years of a Republican administration, the American people are traumatized, fearful, and looking for stability. Joe Biden is the intervention that will provide a calming and steady leadership to the nation.

In Michigan, Bernie Sanders has once again called voter disenfranchisement an "outrage," but no action has been taken to remedy the situation.

Gambling odds-makers have given Bernie Sanders a higher probability of beating Trump in November than Joe Biden, were Sanders to become the Democratic nominee. At the same time, concerns that recent Biden's gaffes indicate the onset of early-stage dementia have broken out into the open.

This is a review of facts you might not know about Joe Biden's voting record and beliefs, including revealing quotes and under-reported controversies. Even back in 2008, it's possible that Biden was chosen as Obama's VP in part to appease closeted white racists who were afraid of a Black president.

The validity of Biden's victories on Super Tuesday has been questioned due to information from exit polls. Long wait times at the polls in California and Texas may also have skewed the results of the election. Many factors were acting against Bernie, while the media exaggerated Biden's successes.

This was the second-to-last debate before the Democratic nominee for President of the United States was selected. The tenth Democratic debate demonstrated the pressure under which the current candidates were operating.

Bernie Sanders is being painted as a dangerous socialist, but ironically, he is one of the few US senators who strongly opposed the current law to allow the military to detain US citizens indefinitely, without charge or trial, if the executive branch claims they are "associated" with terrorism.

The acquittal of Donald Trump opened the door to the Democrats to take over the Senate. The reason is that many Republicans and Independents wanted witnesses at the sham trial, and their Trumplican Senators told them to take a hike. The question is, did they like being ignored?

Why are the Democrats upset with Michael Bloomberg spending so much money to win the primaries?

Analysts are aghast at a recent General Accounting Office report that the Pentagon was forced to make up to $35 trillion in "accounting adjustments," more than the entire size of the US economy, in 2019.

Many people do not use their real names except on legal documents. Celebrities change their names all the time. Did you know that Ivanka Trump, Prince Harry, Sasha Obama, and Whoopi Goldberg go by names that were not given to them at birth?

Elizabeth Warren's inclusion policies belittle the very people they're intended to help. If Warren truly has faith in the downtrodden minorities she’s championing, then her course of action would only consist of mitigating those factors that prevent workforce diversity.

Politicians hold important offices and have more responsibility than most others in society, but that doesn't mean they are invulnerable and without fault just like us. They have families, feelings, goals, dreams, and nightmares. Treat them like it.

The reason the Republicans don't want to have witnesses called is simple.

Many are beginning to understand that their elected officials and political parties are not working for them and do not have their best interests at heart. No, it's not the Alamo, but there's a reason why so many American citizens are holding the line right now.

As polarisation quietly destroys democracy, the principles of graded exposure therapy could help reverse our deepening divide in favour of egoless compromise.

The whole issue surrounding Trump may seem complex, but when we allow all dust to settle, a logical treatment of the current political antagonism in the US reveals the simple, familiar conflict between mind and heart.

Ayanna Pressley is a Massachusetts Congresswoman who revealed on January 16, 2020, an issue that was concerning to her. She wanted to share her story, so she came forward to show the world that she has alopecia.

Who will win the presidential election in 2020? The Keys to the White House is a system created by historian Allan Lichtman to predict presidential elections. The system has correctly predicted the winner in every election since 1984 and retrospectively fits all "modern" elections since 1860.

Donald Trump will forever be known as an impeached president. It is up to the Senate to determine if he will be removed from office.

I pity the poor Republicans. Judging by the effects of the Reagan, Bush, and Nixon administrations, I think the Republicans will fail once again under Trump.

Democrats enjoy complaining that they are being insulted when Republicans and other opponents employ the term "Democrat" in place of "Democratic" while referring to that party, its officials, or its policies. The distinction is trivial, influenced primarily by dialect more than a desire to insult.

The lead 1619 Project essay argues that the American Revolution was fought in part to maintain slavery. While the factual basis for acknowledging that some were motivated to join the rebellion by this desire is sound, the absence of a larger context gives that fact an illusory sense of truth.

The Deep State is the federal bureaucracy that creates laws, enforces them, and judges and punishes transgressors, which means it possesses all three powers that are supposed to be separate in America: legislative, executive, and judicial.

There are not sufficient grounds to impeach President Trump. At worst, his conduct was inappropriate; at best, it was absolutely necessary. There is no legal basis for impeaching President Trump.

Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, was ill-prepared to lead a nation on the verge of civil war. His support of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill brought bloody turmoil to Kansas and opened the door to slavery in the West.

Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ message was riddled in divisive rhetoric even before he took office; his opinions on race, gender, religion and other social issues lacked good reasoning and intent. Interestingly, this message was able to resonate with conservative and Christian demographics.

Both Republicans and Democrats are largely walking in lockstep with their parties for the 2020 election. The deciding vote is going to come down to the Independent voters. The Left is going to make it hard for Democrats to get those votes.

In a heavily disputed photograph that Prince Andrew has suggested is inauthentic, a full view of the usually cropped image shows Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell smiling in the background.

The internet erupted when President Donald Trump posted, without explanation, an image that appeared to show his head on what is widely believed to be Sylvester Stallone's body in "Rocky III"—an image that Team Trump is now denying is doctored.

After one week of testimony, the Republican denials just don't hold water. There seems to be a problem with finding out who the whistleblower is; the past two impeachment inquiries were also based on whistleblower testimony, although it may not have been called that at the time.

Although Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, was the president when American women country-wide finally won the right to vote, it was the Republican Party that advocated for and supported women's rights, including the politically important right to vote.

The 2020 election is narrowing down to four major candidates. The Iowa caucus is coming up on February 3, and here is what you need to know.

The time has now come for voters to get rid of Jill Holtzman Vogel once and for all. Her 11-year political regime has left many scars on the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Voting her out of office altogether will prevent her from doing any further substantial harm to Virginians.

Vice President Millard Fillmore became president upon the sudden death of President Zachary Taylor in 1850. Fillmore inherited the heated debate over the spread of slavery, which culminated in a series of laws known as the Compromise of 1850.

Andrew Johnson was sworn in as president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson quickly made many enemies in Congress and became the first president to face an impeachment trial in the Senate.

In this article, I go through what I believe to be the winners and losers of the October 2019 Democratic Debate. With 12 candidates taking the stage, this was a record-setting debate.