Lander’s resignation constitutes the highest-profile departure from the president’s team to date — his office has cabinet-level status — and a black eye for Biden, who had pledged early on that he would have a zero-tolerance policy when it came to bullying. “The President accepted Dr. Eric Lander’s resignation letter this evening, with gratitude for … Read more
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A secretive liberal dark-money juggernaut spent more than a billion dollars in 2020 to help President Biden win the White House, take the US Senate and hold the US House of Representatives. This group, Arabella Advisors, isn’t a household name, but if there is a liberal cause that you’ve heard of, Arabella is likely funding … Read more
It’s Supreme Court nomination season again. Last week, Justice Stephen Breyer announced he would be retiring from the court at the end of the term, and President Biden has announced he will nominate his nominee until the end of the term End of February. True to a campaign promiseIt is widely expected that Biden will … Read more
While Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi go all out to protect Ukraine’s national sovereignty, at the same time they are orchestrating a clandestine invasion of America across the southern border. Two million illegal immigrants from dozens of countries crossed over from Mexico last year, and the Biden administration is facilitating the cartels’ people-smuggling operation — … Read more
With Wednesday’s news that Judge Stephen Breyer will retire from the Supreme Court At the end of their current term, Democrats have avoided their worst-case scenario for the nation’s highest court: that Republicans would take control of the Senate before Breyer retires, allowing Senator Mitch McConnell to keep Breyer’s seat open to eventually replace the … Read more
In this edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew debates why politicians break with their parties in a public way and the consequences this can have. They also discuss the trend of amateur candidates running and winning the House primary and question whether Biden’s rejection of the polls is a “good or bad use … Read more
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This was not a quiet term for the Supreme Court, to say the least. But just before Christmas the judges added another series of high profile cases on their file: two cases involving the legality of President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Oral disputes in cases involving mandatory vaccination for some health care workers and mandatory … Read more
President Joe Biden will speak about Covid-19 vaccinations on Thursday, October 7, 2021. (Susan Walsh / AP Photo) EDITOR’S NOTE:Every week we post an excerpt from Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column on WashingtonPost.com. Read the full text of Katrina’s column here. Subscribe to something The nation Subscribe now for just $ 2 per month! Thank you … Read more