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National Interest Archive

Then- Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, shown at a campaign rally in Springfield, Mass., in October. (Michael Dwyer/AP Photo, file)
National Interest
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National Interest

Three big reasons why Bernie Sanders 2.0 is probably toast

There's a hunger to turn the page and leave the past behind.

2 days ago

President Donald Trump turns back to the audience after speaking during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

A national emergency: Fealty to Trump or the Constitution?

We will soon learn whether he has fatally infuriated the Fellowship of the Furrowed Brow.

4 days ago

In this file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up his book 'The Art of the Deal', given to him by a fan as he speaks during a campaign stop Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015 in Birmingham, Ala. (Eric Schultz/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The art of the schlemiel

There's a Yiddish saying that "a schlemiel is somebody who often spills his soup." Which brings us to Donald Trump.

1 week ago

Political propaganda, painted on a street wall, La Habana, Cuba (Lucas Vallecillos/VWPics via AP Images)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump’s fright-wing freakout about ‘socialism’

Did you catch Trump's 2020 campaign message, lodged deep within the State of the Union speech? "Here in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism."

2 weeks ago

President Donald Trump gestures as a conductor as people in the chamber sing
National Interest
Politics & Policy

State of Disunion: Wall-fixated Trump roars like a paper tiger

Deep into Trump's State of Union speech, when it appeared he would go longer than Putin and Castro, he bellowed anew about a big beautiful border barrier.

2 weeks ago

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's new book, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics, details his history with New Jersey politics and thoughts on the Trump administration. (Elias Williams for NPR)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Chris Christie is desperate for any piece of the action

In Chris Christie's telling, the buck stops everywhere — with the exception of the Oval Office.

3 weeks ago

Former Starbucks CEO and Chairman Howard Schultz looks out at the audience during a book promotion tour, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, in New York. Democrats across the political spectrum lashed out at the billionaire businessman on Monday after he teased the prospect of an independent 2020 bid, a move Democrats fear would split their vote and all but ensure President Donald Trump's re-election. (Kathy Willens/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Yo, Starbucks billionaire! Wake up and smell the coffee!

Howard Schultz, the ex-Starbucks CEO who somehow thinks that mass-marketing lattes is a boffo presidential credential, was smacked upside the head yesterday on "The View."

3 weeks ago

Unions and supporters join the AFGE TSA at Philadelphia International airport to call for an end to the government shutdown. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Five takeaways from the farcical Trump shutdown

There is a concept in the American system called "checks and balances."

4 weeks ago

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks to members of the media at her alma mater, Howard University, Monday, Jan. 21, 2019 in Washington, following her announcement earlier in the morning that she will run for president. Harris, a first-term senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump's nominees, entered the Democratic presidential race on Monday. Vowing to
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Can Kamala Harris flunk the perfection test and still win the nomination?

The freshman California senator, who announced her presidential bid on Monday, has already made history.

1 month ago

Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Trump, in Portsmouth, N.H., Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Thank you, Rudy Giuliani, for confirming Trump’s core conflict of interest

It's a mystery why Team Trump keeps trotting out Rudy Giuliani to spin for Client-1. Every time he opens his mouth, he digs the hole deeper.

1 month ago

Attorney General nominee William Barr (left) testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. In this Sept. 2, 1970 file photo, Sen. William B. Saxbe, R-Ohio, serving his first term in the Congress, poses at Capitol Hill. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo and AP Photo, file)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Can William Barr live up to the standards of William Saxbe?

The big question now is whether William Barr can meet the standard set by William Saxbe. The preliminary verdict appears to be, "Meh."

1 month ago

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit, Friday, July 7, 2017, in Hamburg. Trump and Putin met for more than two hours. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Border ‘crisis’ distracts us from the true national emergency

Are we capable of connecting two dots? The fake border crisis distracts us from the true national emergency: A suspected Russian asset sits in the White House.

1 month ago

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 70th anniversary. Hillary Rodham Clinton at Oxford University to honour the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Picture date: Monday October 8, 2018. (Victoria Jones/PA Wire/Press Association via AP Images)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

If President Hillary Clinton had stormed out of a meeting …

Alternative news: President Hillary Clinton storms out of a White House meeting after she doesn't get what she wants ...What do we imagine the reaction would be?

1 month ago

The North Portico of the White House is seen, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, in Washington. The partial government shutdown will almost certainly be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year, as both parties traded blame Friday and President Donald Trump sought to raise the stakes in the weeklong impasse. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Up against the wall: Trump shuts down reality

Theodore Roosevelt, who died 100 years ago yesterday, famously declared that dissent was a citizen’s duty: “To announce that ...

2 months ago

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, who will become speaker of the House on Jan. 3, walks to her new office at the Capitol during a television interview for the NBC Today Show, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. The Republicans will relinquish the majority to House Democrats under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi beginning a new era of divided government. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Message to Trump: ‘The time for accountability has arrived’

Today marks the end of all-Republican rule in Washington, thanks to the tallest blue wave since 1974.

2 months ago

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