Trump's baseless election claims march GOP into ‘policy wasteland’  —  Ronald Reagan, the president who reinvigorated the Republican Party, promoted the GOP as the “party of new ideas” on his way to a landslide reelection in 1984.  —  In the post-Donald Trump era, judging by the fare inside …

Cuomo Attacked Over His Plan for Review of Sex Harassment Claims  —  Democratic leaders in Albany questioned the impartiality of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's choice to lead the inquiry, while others called for his immediate resignation.  —  Hours after a second woman came forward to accuse …

Litigation Tracker: Pending Criminal and Civil Cases Against Donald Trump  —  On both the criminal and civil litigation fronts, former President Donald Trump faces a bevy of lawsuits and investigations, with more cases likely to follow.  Some are civil suits stemming from his pre-presidential business dealings.

CPAC Speaker Angela Stanton King Promotes QAnon From Stage  —  Speaker Angela Stanton King called for an investigation into QAnon's baseless allegations of child sexual abuse and cannibalism.  —  A speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory …

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Gets MUTED During Live Interview at CPAC as He Spews Vaccine Conspiracy Theories  —  The conservative pro-Trump YouTube channel Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) cut off MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell during an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference …

4 Minutes With Jill Biden Grieving with the First Family.  —  She died just as I arrived at the wrong hospital.  It was Wednesday afternoon, February 24, and the First Lady, Jill Biden, was making her first official trip outside Washington to tour the labs of the Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Neera Tanden's confirmation fight is the first morality play of post-Trump Washington  —  All the fighting must be exhausting, really.  —  The fights over her reputation, over how she ran her liberal think tank.  The battles with journalists who published her stolen emails.

DOJ charges man who allegedly sprayed chemicals at cops in Capitol riot  —  (CNN)The Justice Department has charged a Texas man who was allegedly caught on video attacking a dozen police officers with a chemical spray during the Capitol insurrection, according to court records.

The power is back, but millions of Texans wonder what it will take to fully recover — and who will help them  —  AUSTIN — The plumbing in Marilu Leyva's mobile home looks as if it was mangled by a monster, and it no longer delivers water.  The damage to Hussein Kamel's power-washing equipment …

Pro-Trump Republican secession rhetoric in Texas and elsewhere is more than a punchline  —  For the past few months, a long-buried idea has been creeping from the fringe into mainstream Republican discourse: secession.  Following President Joe Biden's victory in November …

Border Democrat warns Biden about immigrant fallout  —  A Democratic lawmaker representing a border district warned the Biden administration against easing up too much on unauthorized immigrants, citing their impact on his constituents, local hospitals and their potential to spread the coronavirus.

The Liberal-to-Ultraleft Pipeline: Breaking the Cycle  —  I have been in DSA since the spring of 2016.  Like many, I was tired of feeling politically lonely and isolated.  I saw DSA as one of the only places where I could find others that shared my anger at the state of the world …

Joe Biden won the presidency by making the most of his lucky breaks  —  Review of ‘Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely won the Presidency’ by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes  —  Book critic  —  Sometimes a book is so eager to take readers behind the scenes that it neglects to spend enough time on the scenes themselves.