First off, Nikki, you're canceled.

His candidacy is about the truth, let’s hope it lasts longer.

The Republican rejection of the rule of law may be disqualifying. And then there’s the increasing GOP creepiness.

On Tuesday the U.S. Senate will commence a trial of former President Trump, who stands impeached by the House of Representatives for inciting the Jan. 6 attack...

Biden needs to capture the attention of the disengaged.

President Trump is aware there is no evidence of massive voter fraud resulting from an international conspiracy -- hatched not only by Democrats in every swing...

Missing-Melania-gate needs to end now. No, the first lady doesn’t need to resurface in a smashing outfit at a public event with President Trump; the media...

Think about what Republican senators must have known when they voted not to convict Trump during the second impeachment.

Republicans promised a red wave last November and then got faces full of egg. The precarious margin of control of the House, and the failure of Republicans to...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is in line to become speaker just days from now, but faces such a fierce revolt that no one is certain he will end up with...

The future of the Republican party is an endless series of loyalty tests and Trump family vendettas. Good luck.

By the middle of next year, House Democrats fighting to regain the majority, Senate Democrats working to maintain their majority, President Biden or another...

Now that President Trump has gone from calling the post office “a joke” to flat out admitting he wants to break it, Republicans tempted to stay silent...

And MAGA’s Taylor Derangement Syndrome kicks in.

After Donald Trump’s Florida residence was searched with a legal warrant last week, his supporters have erupted with “unprecedented” violent threats...

A historic assault on the U.S government, incited by an American president, has left five people dead, and armed protests are planned again in our nation's...

Vice President Mike Pence has weeks left to resolve the second most difficult dilemma of his career. The first one was decided in favor of Donald Trump and a...

On Wednesday, when numerous Trump loyalists object to the certification of the legitimate Electoral College count and fellow Republicans join Democrats to vote...

Washington Post's Robert Costa, RealClearPolitics associate editor A.B. Stoddard, Move On's Karine Jean-Pierre, and former CIA officer Jeremy Bash joined MSNBC's Nicole Wallace Monday to talk about...

In the week after earning plaudits for a powerful speech calling on the nation’s better angels to combat racism and hate and fight for the soul of America,...

Pete Buttigieg felt like a winner in the first two Democratic primary contests. He finished very narrowly behind Bernie Sanders in the Iowa and New Hampshire...

Just six weeks after a deadly insurrection against the U.S. government, incited by a president who sent a mob after his own vice president, Republicans are...

As the edict from Mar-a-Lago arrived, to oppose a commission that would probe the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol that former President Trump was impeached for...

Sen. Mitch McConnell was handily reelected in November, and has cemented his legacy as the architect of a recast judiciary that saw 230 new conservative...

The GOP representatives who have bravely voted against Jim Jordan’s bid for the speakership can help the House past its paralysis.

Convincing Joe Biden to end his 2024 campaign required the kind of tact, finesse, and steely resolve she has shown repeatedly in her long career.

Just weeks from Election Day, President Trump logged what may have been his most offensive day ever, disrespecting not only 200,000 dead Americans lost to the...

The response from Republicans to the damning revelations that have emerged from three hearings of the House Select Committee on January 6 has not contained one...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis polls well in the 2024 GOP presidential wannabe pack, always in second place behind former President Trump. Should the path to the...

The countdown has commenced, the election is mere days away, and in this, perhaps the strangest year of our lives, anything can happen. But in campaigns across...

Refocusing on Iowa won’t help you win the Republican nomination. Better to get out of the race while you still have a shred of dignity.

The endurance of COVID-19 and the increasing volatility of our politics have made life at the ballot box a danger for many. The fear of infection is now paired...

Where trolling, paranoia, and delusion come together.

Nancy Pelosi has amassed power through persuasion, and she had the nerve to push a sitting president off the ticket because she prioritized victory.

For all his flaws and failings, the first son has battled GOP lies effectively.

After ignoring for weeks, months even, repeated attacks by President Trump on the integrity of the 2020 election, some members of the GOP are crossing their...

By retiring, Sen. Sinema could stop Kari Lake—and maybe Donald Trump—in Arizona.

Nearly nine months after Donald Trump cost the GOP two Senate seats in a runoff election in Georgia, and handed control of the upper chamber to Democrats,...

In what feels like a flood of bad news of late, here are some scraps of good-news flotsam and jetsam to grab ahold of.

President Trump is loving his response to the pandemic sweeping across the country. You may have heard he gives himself top grades at briefings where all sorts...

Biden is right to focus on democracy—even if some of his fellow Democrats worry that voters don’t care enough about it.

RCP associate editor A.B. Stoddard weighed in on the Biden administration's Covid-19 messaging strategy Thursday morning on MSNBC: AB STODDARD: I think that the polling began to plummet when the...

Coronavirus, the worst crisis of Donald Trump’s presidency, had given him something he had sought all these years -- more approval of his performance than...

Analysis and reporting on politics and culture in America. Home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL and more. No partisan loyalties. No tribal prejudices. Click to read The Bulwark, a...

Two shadow campaigns are ramping up—one aiming to create a constitutional crisis, the other aiming to prevent one.

He keeps coasting past accountability.

She’s jonesing for the job—but Trump’s not that desperate. Or dumb.

For most of 2021, the Democratic party in Washington has earnestly tended to deck chair displays as the ship of democracy sinks.

Last year President Biden nearly let progressives use the perfect to kill off the good. But this year, as two voting rights bills have gone the way of his...

On Monday, President Trump promised his familiar fiction of a surprise health care policy in a tweet storm from Walter Reed medical center. A barrage of nearly...

Three months after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Democrats and Republicans alike are responsible for a shameful failure to respond as hopes fade for a...

As the dust and dismay have settled in on Democrats assessing the 2020 election and planning for a Joe Biden administration, it’s perfectly clear the...

Forty years after ‘The Day After,’ can we have cohesive national moments anymore?

Mention that Mike Pence is trying to run for president in 2024 and people laugh — out loud. But he is. Even more hilarious is that the former vice president...

Four years into Donald Trump’s quest to become, and his performance as, U.S. president, a large majority of us are teaching our young to reject his example,...

Amid the sound and fury of a pandemic, and a response some label a colossal failure of government, it might be hard to notice what additional damage can be...

Democrats celebrated the confirmation of the nation’s first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court at the White House earlier this month. And when Justice...

There is a crisis on the border that President Biden did not inherit but instead created, and while he belatedly tries telling migrants to stay home, some...

After the debate she needs a media blitz.

RCP columnist and associate editor A.B. Stoddard said on MSNBC Monday morning that while the president's "PR team" wants us to think the Mueller probe has found all there is to find, we really only...

If there is one thing Senate Republicans trying hard to get reelected in November can count on, it’s that President Trump will make it even harder for them....

For Joe’s legacy, and for democracy, the first lady should accept the truth.

He reminds Republicans their party doesn’t matter to him.

He and his allies cemented the dictator narrative, and it will backfire.

A divided Democratic Party, united only in a quest to defeat President Trump this year, is stretched to breaking over fault lines of young and old, liberal and...

He thought he had this race in the bag.

It’s highly orchestrated, not remotely subtle, and likely doomed to fail: A late, and desperate, campaign by Republicans urging President Trump to ease up on...

Around the world, both friends and foes will watch this week as the daughter of a former two-term vice president is likely ejected from her leadership role in...

The president can reverse the chaos narrative. He must act.

As they pursue young men they’re disparaging women.

A.B. Stoddard, Byron York, and Ben Domenech discuss with host Bret Baier.

In the firestorm of allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Republicans have made clear that mitigating their woman problem has taken a back seat to voting...

President Trump’s bold assassination of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani has risked escalation of tensions -- or war -- with Iran, as he faces...

His administration will forever be credited with producing a vaccine for a disease that caused a global pandemic, and he has even called it a “medical...

This week 20 years ago, America was paralyzed by fear and grief. Every day felt like Sept. 12, because we woke each morning awaiting another attack. And every...

Sure, they’re trying to reelect the most unpopular president in modern times and they have their work cut out for them, but it’s no wonder the Republican...

The prospect of a vaccine for coronavirus suddenly has a starring role in the presidential campaign, despite the likelihood that an actual vaccine won’t...

The economic recovery, bumps and all, is set to break records, and President Biden enjoys sturdy job approval ratings that have outlasted the traditional...

For Ukraine, but also for yourself.

No, we’re not going to have a nationalized vote-by-mail election this fall. You can ignore the hysterical tweets. But yes, many states will be expanding the...

Democrats were thrilled last week when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had to shush his fellow Republicans as they screamed at the president of the United States....

The COVID-19 pandemic, tanking markets and prompting fears of recession, has blindsided the 2020 campaign season, imperiling President Trump’s reelection....

Some in the GOP are engaging in career-ending straight talk.