While the Democratic candidates seem to genuinely get along, it was inevitable that eventually they would grow more explicitly critical of one another. Which isn’t a bad thing — voters are facing a ch...
Everyone has a theory about the impeachment of the President, but everyone cannot be right. Right now, though, Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — two people who don’t appear particularly fo...
Joe Biden has never been coy about his desire to be president, even as he has wavered about whether he will actually make a third run for the Oval Office. But as the former vice-president nears a deci...
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will be leaving Congress soon, surely to glide into a Wall Street sinecure where his extraordinary service to America’s overclass can be properly rewarded. But before he...
The vast majority of our attention in this election has focused on the races for House and Senate, but there may be equally dramatic changes in store at the state level. If you’ve heard anything at al...
Only the little people pay taxes,” said a New York celebrity real estate figure in the 1980s. It was not Donald Trump but Leona Helmsley, who was eventually convicted of tax fraud and served time in p...
After the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings gave the country a window into workplace sexual harassment — and featured a committee composed entirely of white men sceptically questioning the African...
Whenever Rudolph Giuliani makes a new round of television appearances saying false, curious or just bizarre things in defence of his client, Donald Trump, some people inevitably ask why he keeps getti...
There are some parts of the Republican coalition who feel like they have not received what they expected from the presidency of Donald Trump. Those who are opposed to gay rights, however, have little ...
At the Plum Line, we write a lot about the mechanics of politics — the processes of governing, the interplay of political forces, the back-and-forth between citizens and lawmakers, and so on. We do th...
