Donald Trump continues to outpace his competitors with more votes, delegates and primary victories during the 2016 election season. And if the pattern holds, Donald Trump has a very good chance of becoming the Republican nominee for President of the United States. Yet the ...read more

In an extremely interesting interview with New York Times Magazine about his economic legacy, President Obama delivered a stinging assessment of current conservative economic ideology and trashed the economic platforms of the Republican candidates running for president.  After ...read more

News broke today that the speaker of the House Paul Ryan categorically won't be running for President. Responding to calls to be a potential party savior in the case of a contested convention where no candidate could receive a majority, Ryan held a press conference on Capitol ...read more

I have been following Noam Chomsky's take on the 2016 presidential election with interest, mostly because the famed political activist has started to draw a serious distinction between the two political parties in America.  Chomsky has historically disavowed both parties, ...read more

Paul Krugman's latest Op-Ed neatly sums up the hypocrisy of the GOP's shock over Donald Trump's tactics in one painfully truthful paragraph. He writes:  Republican political strategy has been exploiting racial antagonism, getting working-class whites to despise government because ...read more

In response to his complete irrelevance in a contest featuring candidates who make him look like an almond latte sipping vegan, Mike Huckabee's campaign team figured it would rip off popular artist Adele's "Hello", for reasons that are likely never to be understood in this ...read more

If current polls are any indication, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's presidential campaign appears to be on political life-support. So the question that should be asked is how did the perceived frontrunner for the republican nomination in 2013 become such a marginalized ...read more

Recently I have struggled to find the words to describe the horror show otherwise known as the 2016 Republican primaries, mostly because it is so horrific I can't bring myself to watch it any more. I'm sure if I had watched the debate last night I would be spending the entire ...read more

Presidential no-hoper Mike Huckabee occupies a very odd niche in the American political system. Popular enough with Christian fundamentalists to be a moderate force in conservative circles, Huckabee uses his credibility as a good ol' boy doin' the work of the Good Lord to keep ...read more

Much of what you need to know about the state of the Republican Party can be gleaned from last week’s spectacular debacle on Capitol Hill. The party that hopes to retake the nation’s highest office next year by appealing to a broad cross-section of voters around the country is ...read more