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Byline: James Downie For Print Use Only. Joe Biden made a surprising observation at Thursday's presidential debate. 'The founders were smart,' noted the former vice president. 'They allowed the federal [...]

Byline: James Downie For Print Use Only. As Joe Biden closes in on his choice of a vice-presidential running mate, Democrats in Tuesday's primaries sent a clear message about what [...]

Byline: James Downie This election cycle's Democratic presidential primary has seen plenty of discussion about age. The heart attack of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in early October prompted fears about [...]

Byline: James Downie This election cycle's Democratic presidential primary has seen plenty of discussion about age. The heart attack of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in early October prompted fears about [...]

Byline: James Downie As I've written previously, the major Sunday talk shows are the best reflection of what topics our political and media establishments believe worthy of attention. So this [...]

Byline: James Downie The United States' economic outlook is not exactly confidence-inspiring: Manufacturing is flagging, bond yields have turned ominous, and stocks are down (then up a little on Friday, [...]

Byline: James Downie On the eve of the 2008 Iowa Democratic caucuses, the Des Moines Register's poll concluded that then-Sen. Barack Obama would win the contest by 7%. No other [...]

Byline: James Downie The Justice Department's decision Monday that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional has sparked many questions, such as, 'Didn't Republicans get killed in the midterms on [...]

Byline: James Downie On Saturday, in Long Island City, N.Y., rising star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) before a massive crowd of more than 25,000 supporters. [...]

Byline: James Downie If you have high expectations for Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), you are doomed to disappointment. The senator and former Florida governor has perfected the art of eking [...]

Byline: James Downie As I've written previously, the major Sunday talk shows are the best reflection of what topics our political and media establishments believe worthy of attention. So this [...]

Byline: James Downie The United States' economic outlook is not exactly confidence-inspiring: Manufacturing is flagging, bond yields have turned ominous, and stocks are down (then up a little on Friday, [...]

Byline: James Downie Another Sunday, another slate of political talk shows focused on the president's racist attacks on a member of Congress -- in this case, the Twitter volley that [...]

Byline: James Downie Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) drew ire from some quarters this past week when she said the Trump administration was operating 'concentration camps' along the country's southern border. [...]

Byline: James Downie One year after the clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, the two groups were expected to meet again, this time in Washington, D.C. The [...]

Byline: James DownieSen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) is very concerned about the state of our climate-change debate. 'You don't hear a lot of people who put climate as their number one [...]

Byline: James Downie When House Republicans tried to pass an Obamacare replacement plan back in March, it failed thanks to the resistance of the far-right House Freedom Caucus. Two months [...]

Byline: James Downie By the time you read this, conservative politicians and talking heads will have their spin for Wednesday evening's New York Times bombshell: China and Russia are spying [...]

Byline: James Downie It seemed the news couldn't get more troubling for American Catholics, already inundated with new sexual abuse scandals ensnaring (in different ways) former Washington Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, [...]

Byline: James Downie After Friday's shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas that left 10 people dead, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) blamed the violence in part on [...]

Byline: James Downie In the 2016 election, as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's probe and news reports have documented, Russian 'troll farms' masqueraded as concerned Americans and used basic [...]

Byline: James Downie On Monday, the New York Times's David Brooks criticized 'the decline of anti-Trumpism.' The movement, he writes, has descended into 'monotonous daily hysteria' over the president's fitness. [...]

Byline: James Downie It's all coming up aces for the Democrats. Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by more than seven percentage points nationally in the poll averages. She is [...]

Byline: James Downie The theme of the Republican National Convention's second night was 'Make America Work Again.' As Tuesday came to an end, we knew no more about what Donald [...]

Byline: James Downie Given how many years of tax returns Donald Trump has refused to release, there was always a strong possibility that some return would leak. And so it [...]

Byline: James Downie In advance of the upcoming presidential debates, we gave Post readers a chance to play moderator. We received more than 3,200 submissions, almost all thoughtful and sincere. [...]

Byline: James Downie Last August, at the first Republican presidential debate, Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly asked Ohio Gov. John Kasich to defend acquiescing to the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid [...]