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When victory is its own worst enemy

A prospective second Trump administration has plans to strip perhaps as many as 50,000 federal civil servants of employment protection, claims an analysis by the nonprofit Protect Democracy. On its website, Protect Democracy quotes the American Enterprise Institute, which says a Trump ...

The debate’s unfinished business

"Well, that was fun. Let's do it again in October," wrote an aide to the Kamala Harris for president campaign on X, moments after the vice president left former president Donald Trump reeling Tuesday evening in Philadelphia; hers was a debate performance for the ages. Of course, she couldn't ...

Candidates would rather not go there

On Wednesday outside the Throwback Brewery in South Hampton, N.H., Vice President Kamala Harris stated her intention, if elected to the White House, to help spur the growth of an estimated 25 million small-businesses in the United States. Specifically, the Democratic nominee for president ...

Labor’s heroes deserve admiration

Down through the years, the American labor movement has produced its share of heroes and villains. The latter includes the likes of Jimmy Hoffa, the mob-compromised, mid-20th century leader of the Teamsters, and Tony Boyle, the president of the United Mine Workers who plotted the 1969 murder of ...

Hold on, Dems, it could get bumpy

The Democrats' convention and their crowning of Kamala Harris as their nominee for president was nearly blemish-free. The ticket of Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz head into the fall with a strong wind at their backs. But wait a minute, the process of electing a president and vice president ...

Pelosi: John Murtha was her hero

In her new book 鈥淭he Art of Power,鈥 former House speaker Nancy Pelosi praises the late local congressman John Murtha, and deservedly so. Murtha - a muscular Washington, D.C., deal-maker who dealt, when need be, across-the-aisle with the Republican opposition - brought millions of federal ...