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Joe Biden has lost sight of how he won in 2020, Winston writes. Above, the president is seen on May 3 at a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony.

Biden and Trump: We can’t possibly lose to this guy

By David Winston
Posted May 15, 2024 at 6:00am
This is not a year when any rational voter should believe in ticket splitting, or that a Democratic Congress could contain a President Trump bent on vengeance, Shapiro writes. Above, the Capitol is seen at dusk in October.

Will the last ticket-splitting voter please turn out the light?

By Walter Shapiro
Posted May 14, 2024 at 6:00am
Campaign signs for Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Nikki Haley beside a sign asking voters to write in President Joe Biden before the recent New Hampshire primary. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A threat to democracy no one is talking about

By David Winston
Posted February 7, 2024 at 6:00am, Updated May 13, 2024 at 6:27pm
Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, slides in safe to home plate as catcher Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., appeals to the umpire during the Congressional Baseball Game on Wednesday.

Editor’s Note: Mixing baseball and contempt

Back before the discussion turned to a worm that ate part of his brain, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was a star witness for the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government at a July 30, 2023 hearing.

Editor’s Note: Dead dogs, porn stars and brain-eating worms: Congress can barely compete

By Jason Dick
Posted May 10, 2024 at 3:09pm
Ignorance of history makes it much easier to sell the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, Curtis writes. Above, voters in Washington, D.C., wait in line on Election Day in 2022.

Blocking voters you don’t like is a shameful American tradition

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted May 9, 2024 at 6:00am
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., arrives to a news conference after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on May 7.

Elise Stefanik for veep?

By Stuart Rothenberg
Posted May 8, 2024 at 12:40pm
New data from the latest Winning the Issues survey explores how voters think colleges and universities have handled pro-Palestinian protests. Above, an encampment is seen at George Washington University on April 25.

How voters are responding to the latest campus protests

By David Winston
Posted May 8, 2024 at 6:00am
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie sound off on Speaker Mike Johnson in a May 1 news conference. They got the attention they wanted, Shapiro writes.

Republicans can’t stop threatening their speaker? Take away their TV!

By Walter Shapiro
Posted May 6, 2024 at 6:54pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., attend a ceremony for Army Col. Ralph Puckett, Jr., the last Korean War Medal of Honor recipient to die, as his remains lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda on April 29.

Editor’s Note: Congress’ own river of life, in miniature

By Jason Dick
Posted May 3, 2024 at 3:46pm
Former President Donald Trump is seen here speaking to supporters from the Ellipse at the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.

Playing by the rules? What a concept

By Mary Curtis
Posted May 2, 2024 at 6:00am