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WASHINGTON — It’s not uncommon for struggling presidential candidates to blast their party’s nominating process, especially the decision to let Iowa and New Hampshire host the all-important opening two contests of the primary campaign. The latest candidate to take aim at Iowa and New Hampshire — states with overwhelmingly white …

WASHINGTON — Adam Schiff, the Intelligence Committee chairman and leader of the impeachment inquiry in Congress, was walking around New York City with a friend when the thing happened. It happens in airports, bookstores, restaurants. Strangers stopped him on the street and said he had to “save the democracy” or …

There was, hard as it is to remember, a time before Donald Trump dominated American politics. There will be a time after Trump as well — and if Democrats get their way, that time could come sooner than the 2020 election. As Trump’s Ukraine scandal continues to spiral outward, Democrats …

If you turned on cable news this week, or read our own coverage in Rolling Stone, you might have heard about YouTube’s decision to demonetize well-known conservative commentator Steven Crowder. Crowder’s offense involved calling Vox journalist Carlos Maza a “lispy queer” and a “gay Vox sprite,” leading, says Maza, to …

Bernie Sanders has accomplished something no one in American politics has managed for decades: He’s uniting Democrats and Republicans. It’s early yet, but talking points for the 2020 campaign season are emerging on both sides of the aisle. Republicans and Democrats both have been trying to sell the rise of …

The possibility that President Trump will face impeachment no longer seems far-fetched. Congressional investigations — on the Trump organization, the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team and the Trump administration — are ramping up, while Special Counsel Robert Mueller seems ever closer to releasing his report on the depth of …

Donald Trump’s apparent willingness to flout campaign finance rules and laws against self-dealing was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning series by Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold in 2016. More than two years have passed and —as was the case when he casually bragged about assaulting women, or evaded paying …

If the marketing folks at Dos Equis were casting for The Most Interesting Candidate in the World, they’d have to consider 31-year-old Katie Hill. The former homeless advocate is bisexual,a goat farmer,a gun owner,a survivor,and she won her Democratic primary while being trailed by a film crew for Vice News. …

In the final days leading up to his eleventh election for Congress, Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) was confident in his chances. As Capuano told a reporter over the weekend, “I fully admitted in the first couple of months… there was some rust on the machinery. We’ve gotten rid of that …

“Raise your hand if you’ve ever posted anything online to quote unquote own the libs,” President Trump’s Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley recently asked a crowd of high schoolers. Most of the teens in the audience raised their hands, then exploded into uproarious applause. “I know that it’s fun …