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-- Latest News Home Election 2020 -- Thursday, February 6 Wednesday, February 5 Tuesday, February 4 Monday, February 3 Sunday, February 2 Saturday, February 1 Friday, January 31 Thursday, January 30 Set this view as default? Yes No Set this view as default? Yes No -- Acquittal Is Not Exoneration John Avlon, CNN Trump Broke Pelosi. Or Maybe She Just Broke Herself. Kyle Smith, National Review Pelosi and Schiff Win, Republican Senators Will Take the Fall Matthew Yglesias, Vox Impeachment May Have Hurt Biden, Not Republicans Peter Beinart, The Atlantic Forget Moving On--Senate Must Probe Schiff, Ciaramella Betsy McCaughey, NY Post Senate Republicans Acquitted Trump Out of Fear Sen. Sherrod Brown, New York Times The Clouds Are Darkening for the Democratic Party Niall Stanage, The Hill WP's Fact-Check: Trump Uses 'Correct Numbers, But...' David Harsanyi, Natl Review Trump Didn't Make This Economic Upswing Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic The Coronavirus Could Derail Xi Jinping's 'Chinese Century' Charlie Campbell, Time China Brought NATO Closer Together Ringsmose & Rynning, War on the Rocks New Hampshire (Monmouth) : Sanders 24, Buttigieg 20, Biden 17, Warren 13 RCP Morning Edition Dems' Impeachment Farce Was a Fatal Miscalculation Miranda Devine, New York Post Until Trump, I Used to Respect Republicans. Not Anymore. Jill Lawrence, USA Today Is This Trump's Best Week in Office? Freddy Gray, The Spectator How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty McKay Coppins, The Atlantic Why Only Mitt Romney Fell for the Impeachment Scam Mollie Hemingway, FOX News Pelosi's Rage Is the Energy Democrats Need Right Now Liz Plank, NBC News President Trump's State of the Union for Minorities Steve Cortes, RealClearPolitics Celebrations of Racism Undercut Trump Message to Black Voters Dylan Scott, Vox Wake Up, Dems. Trump Is Helping African Americans in Real Life Van Jones, CNN Democrats 'Feel the Bern.' For Insiders, It's Heartburn Charles Lipson, RealClearPolitics Bye-Bye, Biden Jeet Heer, The Nation How the Tallying Debacle Could Help Biden Campaign David Wasserman, NBC News WashPost Aims to End Fake News, Becomes Part of Problem Mark Hemingway, RCP The Perverse Presidential Facade of Trump at SOTU Masha Gessen, The New Yorker The Most Pro-Life, Pro-Family SOTU in History Madeline Osburn, The Federalist Impeaching Trump May Produce Benefits for Dems, U.S. Robert Kuttner, AmProspect Nancy Pelosi Should Resign Jonathan Turley, The Hill Dem Betting Odds: Buttigieg, Bloomberg Jump; Biden Collapses, Sanders Leads Editorials A Fitting End to a Political Impeachment Washington Examiner President Trump Acquitted But Not Vindicated San Francisco Chronicle Biden Still Hasn't Figured Out an Answer on Ukraine Dealings New York Post Iowa Caucuses: Months of Labor Go Awry in Final, Crucial Moment DM Register More From Real Clear World: China Has Brought NATO Closer Together - Ringsmose & Rynning, WOTR Defense: China's Biological Chernobyl - Thayer & Han, RealClearDefense History: This Nuke Is Still Submerged Off Georgia Coast - Gary Northam, BBC Life: Beer Drinkers Are More Likely to Have Sex on First Date? - Vice Sports: It's World Series or Bust for Loaded MLB Choker - Evan Bleier, IH Videos Trump at Prayer Breakfast: "Corrupt People" Put Me Through "Terrible Ordeal" Buzzfeed Trump Hits Romney: "I Don't Like People Who Use Faith As Justification For Doing What They Know Is Wrong" Buzzfeed Mitt Romney Is Only Republican To Say He'll Vote To Convict Trump: "What He Did Was Not Perfect" Buzzfeed Watch Live: President Trump Delivers Remarks At White House Following Acquittal Buzzfeed -- RealClearPolitics Wednesday State of the Union: Trump Takes Victory Lap While Dems Fume Susan Crabtree, RCP Trump's Address Nothing Less Than Magnificent Roger Kimball, Spectator USA The State of the Union Was a Visibly Degenerate Variety Show Jim Newell, Slate Nancy Pelosi Shamed Herself Last Night Michael Goodwin, New York Post Whitmer Does Michigan Proud in SOTU Rebuttal Nancy Kaffer, Detroit Free-Press Trump Just Moved Closer to Reelection George Neumayr, The American Spectator Takeaways From the Early Iowa Caucus Results Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics Caucus Debacle Helps Biden Overshadow a Terrible Night Marc Caputo, Politico Buttigieg a Liberal Who Makes People Think He's a Moderate Dylan Matthews, Vox Why the Democrats Won't Stop Bernie Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire Scenes From the Democratic Meltdown in Iowa Shawn McCreesh, Rolling Stone Trump Working to Break Democratic Lock on Black Vote David Drucker, DC Examiner Hillary Clinton Was Right About Those 'Deplorables' Leonard Pitts, Salt Lake Tribune Is Trump's Unorthodoxy Becoming Orthodox? Victor Davis Hanson, Chicago Tribune Why Trump Should Be Convicted by the Senate Sen. Kamala Harris, Los Angeles Times The Best Week of Trump's Presidency Josh Kraushaar, National Journal Israeli Arabs Alarmed Over Gantz Supporting Trump's Plan Shlomi Eldar, Al-Monitor New Hampshire (Suffolk): Sanders 24, Biden 15, Buttigieg 15, Warren 10 | More PM Update Iowa Muddle Isn't Over, Even Now That First Results Are In Ronald Brownstein, CNN How Iowa Slipped Away From Joe Biden Ken Thomas, Wall Street Journal Despite Chaos & Dirty Tricks, Sanders Can Still Prevail Bhaskar Sunkara, Guardian Key Takeaways From Trump's Epic SOTU Address Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist President's Job Is to Be the Adult in the Room Howard Fineman, RealClearPolitics Pelosi Does Her Best to Reelect Trump Roger L. Simon, Epoch Times Out of the Impeachment, Into the Fallout Todd Ruger, Roll Call How America Was Hoaxed by 'Russia Collusion' Thomas Farnan, The National Pulse What Bloomberg's Money Can Buy Lance Trover, RealClearPolitics Buttigieg's Iowa Success a Template for Victory in November William Saletan, Slate Rush Limbaugh Is Irreplaceable John Nolte, Breitbart Business Roundtable's Harmful New Standard Schultz, Boskin, Cogan & Taylor, RCM Impeachment Trial : President Trump Found Not Guilty | McConnell | Schumer Acquittal Is Not Exoneration John Avlon , CNN Despite the Trump White House's insistence that the President has been vindicated and exonerated by the Senate vote to not remove him from... Read More Trump Broke Pelosi. Or Maybe She Just Broke Herself. Kyle Smith , National Review Trump broke Pelosi. Or maybe she just broke herself. Read More Pelosi and Schiff Win, Republican Senators Will Take the Fall Matthew Yglesias , Vox Vulnerable GOP senators take the fall, Pelosi gets her way, and more. Read More Impeachment May Have Hurt Biden, Not Republicans Peter Beinart , The Atlantic Forget Moving On--Senate Must Probe Schiff, Ciaramella Betsy McCaughey , NY Post Senate Republicans Acquitted Trump Out of Fear Sen. Sherrod Brown , New York Times The Clouds Are Darkening for the Democratic Party Niall Stanage , The Hill Democratic anxiety about the 2020 presidential election is edging upward after a bad few days for the party. Read More WP's Fact-Check: Trump Uses 'Correct Numbers, But...' David Harsanyi , Natl Review They hide their worldview behind a patina of impartiality, claiming to be arbiters of the truth. Read More Trump Didn't Make This Economic Upswing Annie Lowrey , The Atlantic The Coronavirus Could Derail Xi Jinping's 'Chinese Century' Charlie Campbell , Time The coronavirus crisis threatens to rattle China's authoritarian apparatus Read More China Brought NATO Closer Together Ringsmose & Rynning , War on the Rocks The December 2019 NATO Leaders Meeting in London could have been a disaster. Ahead of the event, the alliance had rarely been more divided.... Read More RCP Morning Edition Dems' Impeachment Farce Was a Fatal Miscalculation Miranda Devine , New York Post Now that the impeachment farce is finished, and the president is acquitted, the Democratic Party has nothing left but futile gestures to mask... Read More Until Trump, I Used to Respect Republicans. Not Anymore. Jill Lawrence , USA Today Until Trump, I found something to like or respect about most...