John Adams’ Fears About America’s Future Feel Pretty Darn Prescient Today
National Gallery of Art Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During America’s first Gilded Age, in 1898, Sen. Mark Hanna was sufficiently candid when asked about his political principles. There are two political truths, the Ohio Republican observed: “The first is money. I can’t remember what the second is.” Now, during…
Democrats Are Hauling In Unprecedented Funds for the Midterms
Democratic House candidate Abigail SpanbergerAP Photo/Steve Helber Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Democrats continue to wring their hands over whether they can turn out voters on Election Day, yet another candidate is reporting a remarkable multi-million dollar fundraising haul, adding to the arguably historic numbers reported by a number of campaigns already. One…
Paul Ryan Decries Tribalism as His Super-PAC Spreads It
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. House Speaker Paul Ryan lamented the increasingly personal tone of American politics at a National Press Club event Monday. “I worry about this a lot,” he said. “The incentive in politics is invective; it’s outrage; it’s hysteria.” He ought to know. Ryan’s super-PAC, the Congressional Leadership…
This Major Republican Donor Just Renounced the GOP
Leslie H. Wexner at an event in 2011. Fred Squillante/The Columbus Dispatch/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ohio’s wealthiest Republican donor, Leslie H. Wexner, has left the party, saying he is fed up with its antics, the Columbus Dispatch reported. “I’m an independent,” Wexner said at an event for Ohio…
Verizon Leaves Lobbying Group ALEC Over Ties to Anti-Muslim Activist
Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Telecom giant Verizon has decided to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council, a powerful corporate lobbying group, over its connections to David Horowitz, an anti-Muslim activist, according to a report from the Intercept. The group had hosted Horowitz as a featured speaker at…
Political Operative Tied to Paul Manafort Charged With Illegal Foreign Lobbying
Federal prosecutors on Friday morning charged Sam Patten, a former associate of ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, with illegally lobbying for a Ukrainian political party. Patten was charged by the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, and the Justice Department’s National Security Division, not by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But the case appears to represent the…