Month: November 2019

Republicans have good reason to be unhappy with some of Tuesday’s election results. Democrats took control of the Senate and House of Delegates in Virginia. In Kentucky, a very red state, Democrat Andy Beshear has claimed victory, potentially injecting some blue into the state capital by defeating Gov. Matt Bevin, who is refusing to concede.

Few questions may shape the result of the 2020 election more than whether Democrats can exploit the religious gap in attitudes toward President Donald Trump that has emerged among his core constituency of working-class white voters. While polls generally show Trump retaining strong support overall among blue-collar whites, more detailed results in several recent surveys

All eyes are on Kentucky Tuesday, as Gov. Matt Bevin (R) faces down a very serious challenge from Andy Beshear, the state’s Democratic attorney general. How is it that Bevin is in such a tough race despite the heavily Republican lean of the Bluegrass State? And how much credit (or blame) does President Donald Trump

Among the ever-shifting grab-bag of impeachment defenses thrown against the wall by President Donald Trump and his supporters, one stands above (or perhaps below) the rest for its brazen falsity and recklessness: his vicious attacks on the whistleblower whose complaint first brought to broad public attention Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political

Patients in Pakistan like to receive injections. They believe that without an injection the treatment, even for minor ailments, is incomplete. Doctors in Pakistan like to give injections to satisfy patients. Providers can also make extra money by adding an injection to the prescription, even when the ailment can be treated with pills or other

Facebook and Twitter are reviewing and taking down posts that spread disinformation about how and when to vote on Election Day. A senior official from the National Association of State Elections Directors told reporters Tuesday that the group flagged election disinformation to both social media companies. Ahead of last year’s midterm elections, Facebook and Twitter

Joe Biden slammed Elizabeth Warren as out of touch after she accused him of running in the “wrong presidential primary,” writing in a Medium post on Tuesday that such attacks are “condescending to the millions of Democrats who have a different view.” “It’s representative of an elitism that working and middle class people do not

From the moment in September that the whistleblower complaint revealing the President’s involvement in the Ukraine scandal was made public, President Trump and congressional Republicans have attacked everyone involved with bringing it to the surface. Targets have ranged from the whistleblower himself, to career diplomats and soldiers, to the Democrats running the investigation. Trump and