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In case you missed it — and it’s likely you did — former President Trump announced Tuesday night he is running for president a third time. Maybe you were watching “Shark Tank,” “Bachelor in Paradise” or the premiere of “The Curse of Oak Island.” But even if you were watching...

Welp, it wasn’t the red wave that many Republicans promised it would be. If not for a certain former guy, it could have been. All of the momentum was with Republicans. There was the historically reliable truism that the party in charge — in this case, the Democrats — is...

As Paul Pelosi laid in a hospital bed in San Francisco, recovering from a horrific attack in his home by a conspiracy-obsessed, pro-nudist drug addict who wanted to break Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s kneecaps, former President Barack Obama was in Detroit begging for “civility.” Heckled by a pair...

That trite and maybe infuriating maxim is one thing I keep telling people who want me to predict who will win the midterm elections and why. We can all look at polling that attempts to tell us what the drivers of voter turnout will be. Some say the economy is...

In August, the residents of Nassau County woke up to find ominous flyers outside of their homes. They were aimed at Long Island’s Jewish community. “Every single aspect of the media is Jewish,” it blared across the top. “Every single aspect of gun control is Jewish,” it continued. “This is...

“I’m done! DONE! Everything has been a lie!” The frustration was both palpable and relatable. Who among us hasn’t felt this way — maybe even said this very thing — at one time or another, utterly exhausted by a friend, family member or colleague who perpetually lies and gaslights and...

As any New Yorker can easily remember, Midtown — the Manhattan neighborhood stretching from 34th Street to 59th Street and from Third Avenue to Eighth Avenue — was once a bustling beehive of corporate activity and commerce. On a typical weekday, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.,...

As we look ahead to midterm elections, where election deniers are on the ballot in 27 states, it’s still mind-blowing to consider how we got here in just a few years. And the answer, most bluntly, is a rise in right-wing nationalism. After lying dormant for some time, the contours...

Over the past week, it’s safe to say we’ve all shed a tear or two, maybe even said a prayer, and quietly reflected on the tremendous loss the world collectively experienced last week. For many that’s because of the historic and solemn events unfolding in the United Kingdom. But I’m...

In 1950, the late UCLA Bruins football coach Red Sanders entered the forever zeitgeist when he told his men, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” The quote has endured as a testament to competitive drive and ambition, both in sports and life. And nowhere is winning more important than...

With just a little more than two months to go before the 2022 midterm elections, one issue is emerging as a top turnout driver. And if Democrats do the historically unimaginable in November, staving off what was predicted to be an off-year Republican bloodbath, we can likely trace the root...

“The president has said he’s planning on running again. People should take him at his word.” That was Anita Dunn, a top adviser to President Biden, sounding very confident in her insistence Biden will seek a second term — and almost indignant that the question is being raised at all....

“When you’re attacking FBI agents because you’re under criminal investigation, you’re losing.” That 2016 tweet from Trump campaign adviser, and future White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, then referring to Hillary Clinton and Democrats, took on a special irony Monday, as former President Donald Trump and his allies spent...

This week, he has a high-visibility time slot on the opening day of CPAC Texas, the once annual conservative conference that’s become such a successful grift for Republicans, it’s now held multiple times a year. While he’ll be warmly welcomed in the Trinity Ballroom of the Hilton Anatole, the list...

Does the name Todd Akin ring a bell? For conservatives who remember the 2012 presidential election all too well, it induces a kind of political PTSD. Akin, the Republican nominee favored to unseat Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri, sent shock waves through the GOP when he said, in defense...

In the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, I was confronted with the same singular question from dozens of cable news hosts, print reporters, podcasters and panel moderators — not to mention the occasional stranger in the grocery store or friend at a party: What happens after Trump?...

It’s like something out of a bad Hollywood script. Our overheated action movie opens in the West Wing. An aide hears a noise coming from the hallway. She sees “the president’s valet in the dining room, changing the table cloth, ketchup dripping down the wall, a porcelain plate shattered on...

Back in 2015, I interviewed presidential hopeful and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for C-SPAN’s “Book TV.” His newest book at the time, “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy” was a chicken-fried paean to all the “Bubbas” of the American heartland. The god-fearing superiority of Bubbaville over the folks in coastal...

If you gave money to the House Majority PAC, associated with Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, you probably didn’t intend for it to help back a far-right Trump defender in California’s 22nd district, who believes Trump would still be president if the 2020 votes had been “properly counted.”...

It’s often pointed out that, under the tutelage of former President Trump, the Republican Party abandoned long-held conservative orthodoxies and interests — think lowering the debt and deficit and anti-protectionism — in favor of whatever Trump just said. For the four years Trump was in office, the GOP busied itself...

Over the past two weeks, we have all mourned and grieved, reeling from a double-whammy of horrific mass shootings — one in Buffalo and another in Uvalde, Texas. The first targeted a Black community, and was, according to the murderer, motivated explicitly by racism. The second, inexplicably, targeted elementary school...

Warning: This article contains information about suicide. If you or a loved one is in need of help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. In this month’s Better Homes and Gardens, readers were treated to a lovely interview with British singer and actor Harry Styles — shot neither...

Elections have consequences, they say. Late Monday night, Politico broke what could be the most consequential result of Donald Trump’s 2016 election, posting a leaked draft of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s would-be majority opinion that would overturn the landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade. “Roe was egregiously wrong from...

Like everything else in today’s era of total partisan absolutism, the news that billionaire tech magnate Elon Musk is buying Twitter landed like a giant sledgehammer, cleaving the country in two. Depending on one’s politics, the sound made by the hostile takeover was either the death knell of truth and...

As a 20- and 30-something young woman living in Manhattan some years ago, the city felt like my playground. Virtually nowhere was off-limits, too unfriendly or unsafe to visit. The Theater District for plays. The Lower East Side for live music. Harlem for soul food. The Bronx for Italian. Queens...