Category Archives: politics

The real issue, to hear Republicans tell it, isn’t that the Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a copy of the draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito. The real issue, they say, is that the draft opinion was leaked to the press. “I think the story today is an effort by […]

Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance speaks to his supporters during an election night watch party on May 3, 2022, in Cincinnati. The 2022 primary season kicked off in earnest on Tuesday, with voters in Ohio and Indiana going to the polls to choose nominees for Senate, governor and a myriad of House races. I went […]

Senate candidate J.D. Vance greets former President Donald Trump at a rally on April 23, 2022, in Delaware, Ohio. On Tuesday night, author and first-time candidate J.D. Vance won the Ohio Republican Senate nomination, a victory that establishes him as the front-runner to win the general election this fall. While victory has a thousand fathers, […]

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy discussed the 25th Amendment on a call with GOP leadership days after January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and said the process “takes too long,” according to an audio recording obtained by two New York Times reporters and shared . McCarthy also said during the call that he wanted […]

In this October 13, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Eastern Kentucky University, in Richmond, Kentucky. Tuesday proved it again: The Republican Party is Donald Trump’s party. Make no mistake: Trump’s endorsement of J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican US Senate primary was the reason the author and first-time […]