Rafi Schwartz

When all is said and done, the award for "most compelling person on stage" during Thursday night's second and final presidential debate could very well go to first lady Melania Trump, who forcefully — and very conspicuously — rejected her husband’s…

It is a sad and unfortunate feature of American politics that elections have increasingly become a generational contest between aging conservatives who would like to keep the world as static — even regressive — as possible for their remaining years…

There are evidently people out there who still believe that President Donald Trump is hyper-dimensional master strategist whose chaotic outbursts and moments of embarrassing self-sabotage are ak-shu-a-lee part of a carefully crafted, expertly…

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill on Thursday dismissed one of the murder charges against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd after kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Cahill ruled that there was no…

Look, I've resigned myself to the fact that if he wins the presidential election next month, Joe Biden's theoretical administration will be one of deeply uninspiring conservatism in the truest sense of the word — a White House dedicated to…

It is probably a sign of a poorly functioning civil society that high-ranking government official is so concerned about local sheriffs not stepping up to make sure polling places are safe and welcoming for prospective voters that his office has…

It's been nearly five decades since a Democrat running for president won the state of Texas, when Lone Star State voters handed then-candidate Jimmy Carter a narrow victory over incumbent President Gerald Ford in 1976. But now, nearly 50 years…

At this stage in America's MAGA-induced decline, it's hardly a shock to assert that President Trump is peerless when it comes to psychological projection. He is, seemingly without fail, compulsively driven to transpose his own anxieties, foibles,…

The president's plan was simple: Humiliate Joe Biden during his televised town hall event on ABC News by counter-programming his own event on NBC News — one that would get even bigger ratings with which Trump could reportedly clobber Biden as the…

With Jeff Flake retired from the Senate and John McCain dying two years ago, the Republican Party's highly coveted position of "person who very occasionally says tepid things that could be construed as a critique of the president" has been left open…

When NBC News hastily announced plans to host Donald Trump for a Thursday night town hall opposite a previously scheduled Joe Biden event set to be broadcast on ABC News, it was clear that, despite the networks' insistences about "fairness" and…

Perhaps it's become cliché to point out that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result. Still, operating under that definition, it seems perhaps that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is…

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is something of a mystery to me. Clearly he's a shrewd politician, having served in the Senate for the better part of two decades now and risen to chair one of the most powerful panels in the Senate…

Just days after posting a lengthy video describing his dissatisfaction with both political parties and their failures to help Black communities in the United States, rapper and actor Ice Cube has been revealed by members of the president's inner…

You should always tip your servers at least 20%. This is one of the few immutable laws of the universe, along with death, taxes, and the fact that eating two, or even three full-size Cinnabon goo-rolls doesn't count so long as you do it in an…

One of the biggest open-ended questions of our rapidly approaching presidential election is whether or not Donald Trump will voluntarily submit to a peaceful transition of power should he be voted out of office in November. To date, both he and his…

The last time there was a congregation of GOP bigwigs gathered together to help push judge Amy Coney Barrett into Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's now vacant, but still-warm Supreme Court seat, it turned into a catastrophic super-spreader event that…

President Donald Trump has made election fraud one of the centerpieces of his seemingly preemptive refusal to accept a potential defeat in the upcoming election. He has railed against the (virtually nonexistent) dangers of mail-in voting, and in an…

Police in Portland, Oregon, declared a riot late Sunday night, as what had initially been billed as a "Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage" left multiple statues toppled, and windows broken ahead of Monday's federal "Columbus Day" holiday. An estimated…