When my wife told me this morning that Trump caved to Nancy Pelosi over the State of the Union address and wouldn't be giving it until after his shutdown was over, my first reaction was, "Naaaaah...that can't be right." Trump  would never back down over something that public, ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Jan 24, 2019
• Opinion

(Image via AP) In a matter of weeks on the job, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to checkmate Trump over his government shutdown in spectacular fashion. Not only has Pelosi refused to back down from Trump's childish threats over his border wall, she has managed bullied the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 17, 2019
• Opinion

In 2019, president Trump appears to be working extremely hard to make the Democrats'  job of opposing him as easy as humanly possible. Facing a career defining stand off with the House, Trump is laying it all on the line in order to get his infamous border wall. And the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 4, 2019
• Opinion

As the government shutdown grinds on, Trump's survival in the White House becomes ever more precarious. Democrats and Republicans are locked in a deadly battle with each side making bold demands and refusing to cede ground. Nancy Pelosi, the new Speaker of the House, has ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 4, 2019
• Opinion

When Trump was first elected, he listened to the GOP and hired a lot of people who were, if not particularly honest, more or less capable of doing their jobs. Since then, like most autocrats, he's winnowed out the competent in favor of those most likely to kiss his ass and ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Dec 28, 2018
• Opinion

As the stock market tumbles, the Mueller probe finale looms, and the reality of a Democratic controlled House sets in, Donald Trump is finding himself in an increasingly isolated political position. Having recklessly shut down the federal government over his inability to secure ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 28, 2018
• Opinion

In his latest book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Stephen Greenblatt analyzes the Bard's most power-hungry characters. The book never mentions Donald Trump by name, but it is easy to see the parallels between our president and the characters ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 12, 2018

In a meeting that probably could have gone better, Donald Trump, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi got into an argument in the Oval Office with Trump repeatedly raising his voice. Mike Pence was also present but apparently remained silent the entire time: President Trump, House ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Dec 11, 2018

There are two popular depictions of Nancy Pelosi. She is either an establishment Democrat opposed to progress or she's a radical leftist with San Francisco coastal elitist values etc. etc. The first is believed by people on the far left who hate the Democratic Party and don't ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 21, 2018

Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton's plan to oust assumed incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has always resembled what Bob Cesca calls the "Underpants Gnomes Model." This phrase, which comes from a South Park episode where the boys meet the legendary underpants gnomes, ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 20, 2018

This January, House Democrats led by (probably) Nancy Pelosi will immediately pass a bill that would, if put into law, end the Republican Party. The bill would establish automatic voter registration and reinvigorate the Voting Rights Act, crippled by a Supreme Court decision in ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 13, 2018

One of my least favorite traits about Democrats is that we tend to get dissatisfied with our leaders pretty quickly. In the year following Obama’s inaugural, major news outlets were already writing articles saying Obama was disappointing them, despite the fact that he hadn’t ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Oct 24, 2018