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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 choice, and need to know what’s good and bad about t...

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 fond of each other — seem to be in agreement that if...

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 decision, he is apparently homing in on the worst poss...

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 goes, Ryan has some legacy-polishing to do. Ryan’...

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 all about a governor’s race, chances are it had to d...

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 prison. But they had a lot in common. On Tuesday ni...

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-American woman detailing what she suffered at Tho...

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 getting invited back on these programmes. But there is ...

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 that because it is interesting and because it winds ...

We get worked up about a lot of silly stuff in presidential campaigns, micro-controversies driven by faux outrage that are inevitably forgotten in a couple of days once the next micro-controversy comes along. On first glance, that is what the kerfuff...