Three things to know for the week of Jan. 5

We’re just days away from Donald Trump’s inauguration, and as usual it’s been his rampant tweeting that’s designated the headlines in news cycles for much of the past week: That caused […]

5 presidents who used the most executive orders in American history

Although some on the right have compared Barack Obama to an English monarch, and then in the eight years before that anti-war Democrats decried executive action by George W. Bush, […]

TBT: Remember when Omarosa and Donald Trump first met on ‘The Apprentice’?

As much of the nation came to grips with the election of a businessman whose outlandish rhetoric and twitter ranting didn’t stop his roll into the White House, the transition team immediately […]

Stat of the Week: It’s been over 160 days since Trump held a press conference

It’s been one week after another without a formal press conference from President-elect Donald Trump, who with just this maneuver is breaking with tradition — as he has promised to […]

Here’s how Chuck Schumer is preparing Democrats for a skirmish on Capitol Hill

With Barack Obama leaving the White House in just about two weeks, and the Democratic Party still reeling from years of losses, progressives have begun looking to new leadership as they take […]

3 things to know about potential Trump Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue

Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, the 70-year-old who in 2003 became the state’s first Republican governor in over a century, is reportedly the leading contender inside the Trump transition team to lead […]

Year in Review: Elections, outrage and the rollercoaster of 2016

It was the most unconventional election of our lifetimes. When anti-politician Donald Trump began his run in the middle of 2015 while riding down a golden escalator with flanked his […]

TBT: Remember last December when Jeb Bush’s coronation was a ‘certainty’?

By the time Jeb(!) had entered the presidential race, nearly a full two years before voting was set to begin, the Bush brand had stood the test of time in Republican […]

Three times policy actually worked in 2016 for the good

The failures and wrongdoings of 2016 have been widely reported, and it wouldn’t take much Googling to find out how upsetting current events over the past year have been to big swaths of […]

The best Bernie Sanders moments of a 2016 election you might want to forget

When a little-known senator from Vermont entered the Democratic presidential race to challenge Hillary Clinton, we can assume she set down her chalice on the wrought iron table at whatever […]