CHARLOTTE — Vice President Kamala Harris pledged ongoing federal support and praised the “heroes among us” as she visited North Carolina on Saturday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, her second trip in four days […]
In our book, “Fixing Congress: Restoring Power to the People,” Mike Johnson (the other one, not the speaker) and I review how the negative impact of large population congressional districts, historic changes to the role of […]
Americans are now being forced to think through the first fake conviction in the history of presidential politics. As a historian, I am really bothered when I hear lawyers on television describe these proceedings as […]
Was the passage by the House last Saturday and the Senate on Tuesday of the foreign aid package with money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan a turning point in American foreign policy? It certainly was […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union speech Thursday night, lacing into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with congressional leaders in Washington late last year he told them privately what is now public: With U.S. weapons, they could win the war against Russia, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Inside the White House Situation Room, new House Speaker Mike Johnson made clear to Biden administration officials his demands when it came to foreign assistance: Aid to Israel for its war against […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A low-key lawmaker in Congress for less than a decade, new House Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t recognizable to most Americans. But the social conservative and devoted ally of former President Donald Trump […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Billy Constangy, a Charlotte native who has worked for an array of NC Republicans for over a decade, has joined new U.S. House speaker Mike Johnson’s political team. Punchbowl News first reported the […]
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