Politics Features

A watchdog is calling on the Biden administration to investigate whether donations to an organization representing Republican state financial officers have violated the Securities and Exchange Commission’s landmark pay-to-play rule. The State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF) — whose members include GOP state treasurers, auditors, and controllers — has led a …

New emails obtained by Rolling Stone and American Doom reveal how conservative Georgia election officials laid the groundwork for new controversial state election rules designed to give more power to those officials to arbitrarily refuse to certify election results. Months before the Georgia State Election Board passed the rules, emails …

With his selection as candidate for vice president, Tim Walz has burst onto the national political scene as one of the most folksy and estimable Democratic standard bearers in recent memory. Walz’s background includes having been a teacher, a football coach, a National Guardsman, a member of Congress, and one …

I don’t get to Washington, D.C., as much as I did when I was younger. When I do, I stop in to see my father. Sometimes I bring a beer and sit down and catch him up on things. I tell him about his namesake grandson, my latest misadventures, and …

O n the day Igor Danchenko believes he was betrayed by the U.S. government — when the federal government’s chief law-enforcement officer effectively outed the Russian émigré, then a confidential FBI informant, as the architect of one of the most explosive and controversial documents in American political history — Danchenko …

There are few who personally endure Elon Musk who don’t end up finding him uniquely off putting. That includes his political ally, former President Donald Trump, who is also nowadays increasingly relying on billionaires like Musk to use their considerable fortunes to put him back in the White House. Trump …

CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris — the daughter of immigrants, raised in the Oakland flatlands — accepted the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday night at the United Center. For the bleeding-heart, coconut-pilled liberals thrilled by Harris’ shock ascension to the top of the ticket one month ago, the …

The Democratic National Convention wrapped up Thursday night with Kamala Harris accepting the party’s nomination for president. It was a rousing end to a four-day party in Chicago’s United Center, one that was jam-packed with big-name speakers, bumping musical performances, and unbridled enthusiasm over Harris’ campaign, which is somehow only …

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s extremely colorful run for office has come to an end, but it will not be forgotten. Since his campaign began last April, the anti-vaxxer told us about his brain worm, his uncertainty around 9/11, and the time that he left a dead bear cub in Central …

CHICAGO – As political leaders have been campaigning for the Democratic Party and its nominees throughout the week, a contingent of Hollywood stars are making the case for the importance of funding the arts and the efficacy of the arts at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. They’re here with …