when some of Trump's supporters chanted, "Hang Mike Pence." The relationship between the two was never the same, after Pence defied Trump's urging to alter the 2020 presidential election results.
Washington State Governor, and short-lived Presidential candidate, Jay Inslee (D) failed to persuade the Washington legislature to pass his cap-and-trade proposal. Undaunted, he attempted to implement, by fiat, his own carbon cap policy, but was thwarted (for now) by the Washington Supreme Cou...
Since then, Putin has transformed the anarchic plunder of the 1990s into a centralized structure of state-approved oligarchs, with himself at the top of the pyramid.Putin is believed to be among the richest people on Earth— impressive for a man who has worked his whole life for the governme...
Inslee, by raising the minimum wage in Washington state, helping to pass a statewide paid family leave law and enacting a moratorium on the death penalty, has been an outspoken progressive executive since he became governor in 2013. But his profile truly rose after the election of President Do...
Early voting in California will also begin 30 days before primary day, meaning voters in the state can cast their ballots on the same day as the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses. The move rankled some in the party, but another top official in Nevada, whose 2020 presidential caucus...
"The interim deal is a code name designed by the (U.S. President Joe) Biden administration to evade fulfillment of JCPOA commitments, while at the same time, notching up a dramatic achievement within the framework of Democrats' slogans in the 2020 presidential election," wrote Nour News, a ...
Walz, near the end of his meeting with Vance, turned to the Ohio senator and asked him, point blank, if former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, a lie many Republicans continue to repeat. When Vance would not answer, the Democratic...
(I have frequently written about its political implicationsin the Monthlyover the past 14 years, but there’s a detailed summary here.) The regions do not respect state or even international boundaries, as you can see from the map at the top of this post of what they look like today...
On an hour-long phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday, President Trump pressured him and other officials to "find" enough votes in the state's presidential election to make him the winner, according to audio of the call obtained and published by The Washin...
the CIA, Pentagon and State Department all still have documents they’ve refused to release. The justification for those documents remaining classified largely stems fromefforts to protect the identitiesof confidential sources who are still alive, or might be alive, and prot...