After announcing he will close the Kennedy Center for two years in his capacity as chairman of its board, President Trump must have assumed he’d owned the liberals who once frequented events there. No ...

The doomsday scenarios coming out of the 2016 presidential race are concerning, but longtime political journalist Eleanor Clift said the U.S. people will persevere, no matter the outcome in November.

Louis XIV of France, the absolute monarch known as the Sun King, said, possibly apocryphally, “L’État, c’est moi,” literally, “The State, it is me,” or more commonly, “I am The State.” America’s ...

Trump pitches zero tolerance red meat to his base as part of his 2020 campaign re-launch, as his DHS threatens to deport 2,000 immigrants on Sunday. Congressman Raul Ruiz joins New York Times ...

And then they came for you. They came without warrants. They stopped and frisked you without probable cause, demanded proof of citizenship, perhaps after you were thrown to the ground, and identified ...

The Daily Beast’s brilliant political columnist Eleanor Clift reveals how she saw the truth about Jimmy Carter up close–and how when a source told her a story to attack Carter it really revealed the ...

Eleanor Clift's lecture, 'America at a Crossroads -- Politics or Partisanship,' will be at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 20, at St. Ambrose University's Rogalski Center. The lecture is free and open to the ...

In my book, “The President’s First Year,” I made the case that America has survived in spite of our presidents, not because of them. The title addendum read, “None were prepared, some never learned,” ...

SIOUX CITY | Eleanor Clift, a long-time political reporter and current Washington correspondent for the Daily Beast, is fascinated by the obsession with Donald Trump that has put him at the forefront ...

The Founding Fathers thought it was settled with James Madison, the principal author of what is known as “the Establishment clause,” declaring, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment ...

Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe’s admission that he was pulling back resources from the New York governor’s race irritated fellow Dems. Comptroller Carl McCall is the party’s only ...