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On Sunday, Donald Trump and Mike Pence appeared on 60 Minutes in their first joint interview since it was announced that the Indiana governor was going to be Trump’s running mate. style=”display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-5626295912827181″ data-ad-slot=”4169069414″> And, wow, this was one of the most awkward things I’ve ever watched. This Trump/Pence team might rank up there with […]

Chaos erupted at the Republican National Convention on Monday afternoon after the leadership bypassed a call for a full floor vote on the rules of the event. Just three hours after the four-day convention kicked off in Cleveland, anti-Donald Trump delegates and those supporting the presumptive Republican nominee shouted at each other on the floor

Some of our younger readers may not remember or only have a very faint recollection of the 1964 presidential campaign. I, for one, remember. I especially remember a television ad released by the Lyndon B. Johnson campaign. The ad, referred to variously as “Daisy,” “Daisy Girl” or “Peace, Little Girl,” depicts a lovely 3-year-old little

BATON ROUGE, La. — The gunman who shot and killed three officers here, wounding three more, was deliberately attacking law enforcement, officials said Monday. “We do believe that he was targeting police officers” in the shooting, said Major M. Doug Cain, spokesman for the Louisiana State Police. “This incident was an ambush.” The gunman was

CLEVELAND — House Republicans hold the biggest majority since the Great Depression. But the lawmaker in charge of keeping all those seats, Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, said Monday that the next election is about “whether you want to continue things the way they are or whether you’re ready for real change.” The contradiction is one

CLEVELAND – Accusations of racism, race baiting and use of racial dog whistles are age-old staples of American politics, but these recriminations have reached a fever pitch this year against Donald Trump. The likely Republican presidential nominee’s blunt rhetoric about illegal immigration and the threat of radical Islamic terrorism, as well as his clumsy handling

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Nate Silver. After getting his B.A. in economics at the University of Chicago in 2000, Silver took a job as an economic consultant with KPMG, the consulting company, but quit after a couple of years and made good money playing online poker. He also came up with a

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is set to speak at the Republican National Convention this week, but the vocally anti-Black Lives Matter law enforcement officer is already making headlines with his message. In the wake of a shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, over the weekend that left three police officers dead and three more wounded,

In 1952, TV manufacturers with such now-forgotten brand names as Philco, Admiral and Westinghouse were the exclusive sponsors of network coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions. They sought to motivate Americans to head to their local appliance dealer to purchase their first televisions, and ABC, CBS and NBC helped by offering viewers hours

CLEVELAND — Donald Trump’s climb to the top of the Republican ticket shattered the rules of presidential politics. Now, his nomination is promising to break with tradition like no other political convention in the modern era. Trump’s brash brand of reality-TV politics is expected to produce a crowd-pleasing four days in Cleveland. It’s sure to