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Michael Schaffer is a senior editor and columnist at POLITICO Magazine. He has covered national and local politics for over ...
About eighteen months ago, a broad-based coalition of political forces began to take shape under the umbrella of the African ...
The party needs a polite way to usher politicians toward retirement.
The Congress member framed the NYC mayor’s race as a referendum on the Democratic Party at a rally for Zohran Mamdani.
As well as Harris, Beshear’s potential rivals for the 2028 nomination include ex-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, ...
The 47-year-old Californian has been a member of the House for just over two years.
It is a choice, she said, between the “gerontocracy” represented by the 67-year-old former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the change represented by Mamdani, a 33-year-old assemblymember.
That absolutism was tempered somewhat in Trump’s first term by the sensible cap on the state and local tax deduction. But the new legislation raises that cap and offers a larger tax break for heirs ...
For months, I’ve been puzzling over the fact that Britain, where I live, does not have the same gerontocracy problem in its Parliament as the U.S. does in Congress.
Schmitz Stephen Miller has described the “big, beautiful” bill as “the MAGA agenda in legislative form.” He’s right, and it’s an agenda with some fundamental contradictions. You can’t keep slashing ...
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a fiery speech on Saturday night, told New Yorkers that they have the chance to beat back the Democratic Party’s “gerontocracy” when voters go to the polls ...