Author: W. James Antle III

President Donald Trump’s decision to yank the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is the latest sign Republicans have a special election problem. Trump specifically cited in pulling the nomination the need to protect House Republicans’ slim majority rather than any problem with Stefanik herself. The House…

Democrats are shut out of power in Washington, D.C., but they hope that doesn’t last long. Historically speaking, the midterm elections offer an opportunity to rein in a political party that controls the elected branches of the federal government. That currently describes Republicans under President Donald Trump. Democrats earnestly believe they can make next year’s…

Both parties are seeing mixed signals from the data 19 months ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, less than 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term. Trump’s support is softening amid economic worries, and there are growing signs of rage on the Left, though the Democratic Party remains deeply unpopular and shows little indication…

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 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…

If President Donald Trump was under any political pressure to extend an olive branch to Democrats during his first speech to Congress since returning to the Oval Office, they quickly showed they would not take it. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to intervene when Rep. Al Green (D-TX) disrupted the proceedings. The Texas lawmaker,…