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Al Franken allegations are a big money problem for Democrats

Perhaps a bigger loss than his direct contributions to Democrats' Senate campaign arm is the sidelining of Franken, 66, as a go-to fundraiser for his colleagues...  Read more

Is Virginia Permanently Blue Now?

There are lessons for both Republicans and Democrats in Ralph Northam's victory...  Read more

Public university tells graduate students to oppose Republican tax reform

Graduate students at the taxpayer-subsidized University of North Dakota received an email from the Office of Graduate Studies encouraging students to lobby against the Republican proposed tax reform bill that is currently under debate...  Read more

DC courts are becoming the place to muzzle scientists

A Stanford professor who is unhappy about a study contradicting his work has filed a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., demanding $10 million and the retraction of the opposing research...  Read more

Secret legislative settlements driven by sexual harassment, discrimination

In most cases, Congress is able to appropriate any money it needs for these settlements...  Read more

Trump Is Right: Five Ways Chinese Car Makers Are Hosing America

China's car manufacturers really are taking advantage of an unfair set of rules...  Read more

The Trump Administration Moves to Embrace Roy Moore

Donald Trump's team finally moves off the side-line to support Moore in Alabama...  Read more

Air traffic control privatization is just an airline power grab

The modernization of our ATC system is well underway and the proposed solution is in search of a problem that doesn't exist...  Read more

Congress' budgetary uncertainty is harming the troops

The defense budget is big. The only thing more costly than spending $700 billion on national security is to not provide that funding...  Read more

Al Franken, Bill Clinton, Roy Moore, and Donald Trump: Sex and cynical politics

Much of "Me Too" was driven by the mantra, "Believe women." If partisans get their way, that mantra will be, "Believe women, but only if it helps our side."...  Read more

Inmates ask Trump to pardon people alongside turkeys

"For everyone we communicate with, it's like pouring salt in a wound," Amy Povah, a clemency recipient who founded Can-Do Clemency to advocate for other federal drug offenders, said about the turkey pardons...  Read more

The Republicans' astonishing, Orwellian change of heart on Putin

Following the presidential election, President Trump's tone changed toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We're going to have a great relationship with Putin and Russia," he told a victory rally...  Read more

Keystone XL oil pipeline faces critical decision

Nebraska's state energy regulators are set to make a key decision Monday on whether to allow TransCanada’s Keystone XL oil pipeline to move forward...  Read more

Trump Twitter Can Still Shock You

Why is tweeting about Jeff Flake more important to the president than passing tax reform?...  Read more

The Polling on the Roy Moore - Doug Jones Race In Alabama Is Awfully Close

If you had told me last year that there was going to be a competitive Senate election in Alabama before 2017 was over, I would have probably smiled politely and slowly backed away...  Read more

Donald Trump's Roy Moore Problem

"The president has certainly a lot more insight into what he personally did or didn't do."...  Read more

Rug Money

Paul Manafort ruined a solid scam, say former middleman for Iranian regime, as well as IRS and Treasury agents...  Read more

Al Franken tests Democrats' sexual harassment resolve

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., apologized Thursday after a Los Angeles radio anchor accused him of forcibly kissing her during a 2006 USO tour and posed for a photo with his hands on her breasts as she slept...  Read more