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Peter SchorschJuly 27, 2016

Outgoing DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is facing the strongest challenge of her congressional career back home in South Florida from Democrat Tim Canova. And if Wasserman Schultz is unsuccessful in the Aug. 30 primary, a new Smart Politics report finds she will be only the second party leader — either Democratic or Republican — to lose […]

Marc YachtMarch 23, 2015

Joseph Nye Welch was the head counsel for the United States Army under investigation during Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s, Army-McCarthy hearings. McCarthy had just grilled a young Harvard lawyer when Welch commented to McCarthy: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness…. Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. […]

Martin DyckmanMarch 25, 2014

You’d think the Republicans would have figured out by now how to be rid of President Obama. It would be simple: just say something nice about him, and he’d be put out of action by the shock. He can’t catch a break from them no matter what he does. Their latest snarl blames him for […]

Guest AuthorDecember 10, 2013

America is a nation that loves heroes. The recent death of South African leader Nelson Mandela spawned an outpouring of tributes from President Obama to the average American on the street. Mandela first led a decades-long fight to end apartheid in South Africa and then headed that nation in its democratic infancy with wisdom and […]

Tag: Henry Cabot Lodge

Debbie Wasserman Schultz would make history were she to lose party chair and re-election in same year

Marc Yacht: 47 Senate signatures defy President Barack Obama

Martin Dyckman: Wilson endured the kind of opposition Obama faces today

Steve Kurlander: America needs some homegrown heroes like Mandela