George Clooney complains of ‘obscene’ amount of money in politics after...
George Clooney said on Sunday that there is an “obscene” amount of money in politics, the day after hosting a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton at his Hollywood home that saw one donor and his wife pay...
View ArticleDonald Trump crushes opponents in N.Y. primary: ‘Cruz is just about...
NEW YORK — Donald Trump easily trounced his opponents in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary here in his home state of New York, notching his biggest win yet and pulling further ahead of Ted Cruz...
View ArticleFrank Bruni: This is no way to elect a president
With Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s victories in New York, we’re one furious contest closer to the end of this spectacle. But we’ve known for a while now where we’re headed, and it isn’t anyplace...
View ArticleAmericans would choose Tyrion Lannister over Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump...
The sixth season of Game of Thrones doesn’t premiere until Sunday, but as the world holds its breath to discover the true fate of precious Jon Snow, the kind people over at Survey Monkey decided to put...
View ArticleDonald Trump declares himself the ‘presumptive nominee’ as he trounces Cruz...
PHILADELPHIA — In a front-runner’s rout, Republican Donald Trump roared to victory Tuesday in five contests across the Northeast and confidently declared himself the GOP’s “presumptive nominee.”...
View ArticleClinton’s next big task as she inches closer to presidential nomination: woo...
On the brink of the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton and her advisers now must bring Bernie Sanders’ millions of supporters into the fold for the general election – with or without...
View ArticleFrancis Wilkinson: Bernie Sanders has to decide what to do with the rest of...
His hour upon the nation’s biggest political stage is almost up. The Democratic nomination is receding from his reach. And a 74-year-old doesn’t have a lot of presidential runs in his future. So it’s...
View ArticleConrad Black: Donald Trump, the centrist, has attracted an army of...
The United States is now moving in high gear into the most interesting election campaign it has had since 1968, and without the constant riots that occurred throughout that election year and surely,...
View Article‘The Republicans are cracking up’: How antipathy to Donald Trump within the...
WASHINGTON — Some of the Republican party’s most prominent members have resisted endorsing Donald Trump amid a historic, soul-searching exercise over their presidential nominee. The party’s two living...
View ArticleTrump and Clinton victorious: Proof that U.S. voting system doesn’t work
ANALYSIS Having outlasted all his opponents, Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. Hillary Clinton is closing in on locking up the Democratic nomination. Clinton and Trump...
View ArticleSanders’ West Virginia win makes up little ground on Clinton; Trump proceeds...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — White House dreams fading, Bernie Sanders added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia on Tuesday — a victory that will do little to slow the...
View ArticleRex Murphy: Hillary Clinton’s long, tortured, road ahead
Hillary Clinton’s second inevitable triumphal march to the Democratic nomination is even more depressing than her first one. At least eight years ago there was an ascendant star, a rare political...
View ArticleThe Wire’s Wendell Pierce arrested for allegedly attacking Bernie Sanders...
It looks like Donald Trump supporters aren’t the only vicious voters out there. The Wire actor Wendell Pierce, a noted Hillary Clinton supporter, was arrested over the weekend for allegedly attacking a...
View ArticleHow punk-rock band Anti-Flag plan to make America (and Canada) great again...
Pittsburgh rockers Anti-Flag have been at it for over two decades, but they haven’t lost any steam – in their music or their politics. Influenced by the great punk-rock bands before them with something...
View Article‘I would love to do that’: Donald Trump agrees to debate Bernie Sanders — for...
Hillary Clinton has declined an invitation to debate Sen. Bernie Sanders before the California primary election next month, but he may have found a willing replacement: Donald Trump. The idea of a...
View ArticleCharles Krauthammer: Crazy Uncle Bernie’s effort to undermine Israel
Part of Bernie Sanders’ charm is that for all of his arm-waving jeremiads, he appears unthreatening. He’s the weird old uncle in the attic, Larry David’s crazy Bernie. It’s almost a matter of style....
View ArticleAs House continues to sit, NDP MP Niki Ashton says she’s campaigning for...
Off to North Dakota to campaign for @BernieSanders! We #FeelTheBern! #BernieBus2 @noamgonick @LeahGAZ @MakinsonAQ pic.twitter.com/6rpRLMv7TS — Niki Ashton (@nikiashton) June 5, 2016 OTTAWA — Niki...
View ArticleHillary Clinton secures enough delegates to win Democratic nomination
LOS ANGELES — Striding into history, Hillary Clinton will become the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major U.S. political party, capturing commitments Monday from the number of...
View ArticleHillary Clinton may be on verge of history but determined Democratic rival...
DAVIS, Calif. — At a rally in Davis last week, 9,000 people came to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders speak, some catching a glimpse from a parking garage roof. In Palo Alto, Calif., some of his 4,000 fans...
View ArticleRobyn Urback: What was a Canadian MP doing campaigning for Bernie Sanders?
It’s easy to imagine the degree of hysteria that would have emanated from NDP benches last fall had, say, a Republican congressman hopped on a plane to Ottawa and offered to hand out “Protect Our...
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