Early last year, Republicans from the House Judiciary Committee were invited to a private dinner at the Justice Department. Representative...

Right before armed guards escorted me from the rally and left me on the edge of a Texas-county road, I...

On a winter night last year, shortly after Donald Trump was sworn into office, senior officials at the Department of...

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Casey Means has, to say the least, modified her tone. When she testified today in front of the Senate’s health...

The middle-aged man in a giraffe costume removed his sunglasses and told the crowd he was breaking character in order...

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Sherrod Brown can be hard to follow at times. He apologizes for his frequent rambles, parentheticals, and asides. “I don’t...

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President Trump’s state of the union address last night was very like the man who delivered it: divisive, abusive, and...

All that’s left of T. J. Semmes Elementary School is the scattered slabs of the building’s brick foundation. The otherwise...

In 1952, President Harry Truman asserted his power as commander in chief to seize America’s major steel mills. He insisted...