Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering of the best […]
Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt focused her Thursday response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on family-focused issues, including one that’s been giving her party some heartburn as of late: in vitro fertilization. Following an Alabama Supreme Court ruling last month that embryos created via IVF are people, Biden used his remarks […]
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President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last year included a slew of promises and hints about what the president wanted to accomplish in the year ahead. So how did Biden live up to these promises? POLITICO dug through last year’s speech and assessed his progress on some of the major issues just before […]
With help from Shawn Ness In 2016, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo threw another stone in his tit-for-tat war with Mayor Bill de Blasio — he deployed hundreds of New York state troopers on de Blasio’s turf of New York City. De Blasio blasted Cuomo for it. Eight years later, with a very different mayor and governor […]
With help from Shawn Ness Both houses of the state Legislature are planning to introduce their one-house budget proposals next Monday then pass them sometime before they adjourn for the week on March 14. That will frame the debate around the $233 billion spending plan proposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul as lawmakers ramp up talks […]
The State of the Union may be one of the most vastly overrated speeches in all of politics. But not this year. The address President Joe Biden is set to deliver on Thursday night will come as the president faces intensifying worries about his age and vitality and a host of confounding international crises and […]
BEAUMONT, Texas — Forget the anti-climactic finale of the presidential primary, the most revealing Super Tuesday campaigns are taking place in Texas — and none more than in this swamp-and-refinery filled corner of the state, where the House speaker is at risk of falling victim to Washington-style political tribalism. Speaker Dade Phelan, the scion of […]
Former President Donald Trump paved the way for Mark Robinson. Robinson, a candidate in North Carolina’s GOP primary for governor Tuesday, has done all the things that would normally make someone a toxic general election candidate: He’s called homosexuality “filth,” made antisemitic remarks about Hollywood controlling Black people and expressed retrograde views about women. And […]
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