Author: W. James Antle III

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump laid down the law with fractious House Republicans as they prepare for a key vote on his agenda. We’ll soon see if they are listening even to the Republican leader with the…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Many Democrats are saying now is not the time to discuss former President Joe Biden’s health while in office in the wake of his prostate cancer diagnosis. The news that Biden is suffering from an…

A quirky podcast conversation between Govs. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Tim Walz (D-MN) revealed an important divide within the Democratic Party as it seeks to regain power. Newsom kept urging Democrats to find ways to win back the voters they lost to President Donald Trump and the Republicans. Walz, the unsuccessful 2024 Democratic nominee for…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has learned the hard way the angry progressive wing of his party wants political scalps, possibly now including his. Schumer is still reeling from the liberal backlash against his vote, supported only by a small minority of his caucus, to keep the federal government open by allowing the Senate…

A new book about the 2024 presidential campaign states that former President Joe Biden wouldn’t let Kamala Harris, his vice president and replacement at the top of the Democratic ticket, get enough distance from him to win. Being joined at the hip with Biden made it possible for a former president, Donald Trump, to be…

When Democrats say they need a generational change in their party’s leadership, they usually aren’t referring to former President Barack Obama. Although the 63-year-old has been out of the White House for eight years, he retains his grip on the Democratic imagination. Perhaps last year loosened it some, however. Obama took it upon himself to…

President Donald Trump is unhappy with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) for impeding short-term spending plans, vowing to “lead the charge against him” in a Republican primary and even likening the Kentucky lawmaker to former Rep. Liz Cheney “before her historic, record breaking fall (loss!)” “The people of Kentucky won’t stand for it, just watch,” Trump…

President Donald Trump is betting heavily on his ability to use the blunt instrument of tariffs to build a “golden age of America” as economic uncertainty batters the stock market. Even Trump hesitated to rule out a recession this year as he acknowledged there would be a “period of transition” before the economic benefits of…

President Donald Trump showed his trademark flexibility Thursday on a pair of issues Democrats have been hoping to use to halt his second-term political momentum. Trump took his first steps toward reining in Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, telling a hastily convened Cabinet meeting that the Senate-confirmed agency heads will ultimately determine…

After being shut out of power in Washington, D.C., during last year’s elections, Democrats are leaderless, rudderless, and divided about how to move forward. Yet Democrats can hope to turn things around without changing much substantively or stylistically, if only the electorate turns on President Donald Trump. Trump continued to hit Democrats in his speech…