by James Fite | Jun 3, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
President Joe Biden spoke to the nation Friday night in his first ever primetime Oval Office address to tout the latest debt limit deal. The Fiscal Responsibility Act, which Biden plans to sign later today, cleared the Senate 63-36 Thursday, June 1, after passing...
by Mark Angelides | Jan 21, 2020 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), with full pomp and circumstance, sent the articles of impeachment to the upper chamber, all talk turned immediately to the rules for the Senate trial. After much speculation, and presumably closed-door dealings, Senate Majority...
by Tim Donner | Aug 25, 2018 | Articles, Politics
Senator John McCain, one of the nation’s most prominent and controversial Republicans of the last two decades, has succumbed to brain cancer at age 81. He died at his home in Arizona just one day after discontinuing treatments for the disease. As tributes to...
by Tim Donner | Aug 15, 2018 | Articles, Politics
The Donald Trump era has now been marked by the shattering of yet another seemingly unbreakable tradition. This one has nothing to do with calling out NATO, shredding trade deals, or forcing recalcitrant Republicans to actually deliver what they’ve long promised on...