How we predict elections
Scott Bland is POLITICO’s national politics editor and leading all of POLITICO’s 2022 midterm coverage. To do it, he has a team of about 15 reporters around the country following campaigns. Despite ...
14 Loka 202232min
Dream job disappointment: Testifying against Trump
Sarah Matthews has a political resume similar to a lot of conservatives her age. At Kent State, she joined the College Republicans and made her first pilgrimage to the annual CPAC conference in Washin...
7 Loka 202253min
Giorgia Meloni's Hard Right Playbook
Last Sunday, Italians voted for the most right-wing government since Benito Mussolini. The controversial politician leading the winning coalition, Giorgia Meloni, will become Italy's first female prim...
30 Syys 202229min
The untold story of Trump's botched impeachments
It’s hard to imagine a political event that was covered more intensively in real time than Trump’s two impeachments. But only now, 18 months after the Senate acquitted Trump a second time, we are lear...
23 Syys 20221h 5min
The Bitter End to democracy? Hindsight is 20/20.
UCLA political scientists Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch and Vanderbilt’s John Sides argue that political party identity has become increasingly “calcified” in surprising new ways. Their latest b...
16 Syys 20221h 2min
Kara Swisher knows when to fold ‘em
Kara Swisher has hosted the annual Code Conference for the last twenty years. Recently she announced that this was her final year organizing and running the event, which concluded on Thursday in Los A...
9 Syys 202248min
When Senator Leahy laughed with Raul Castro
On Tuesday, Leahy, who is retiring this year after representing Vermont in the Senate since 1975, released “The Road Taken,” an engrossing memoir that covers his long career, from his politically frau...
26 Elo 202236min
Ron Klain says ‘season of substance’ could save Dems
The White House suddenly has a lot to brag about. And the president’s aides, led by chief of staff Ron Klain, are reaching deep into the 20th century to make the case that Joe Biden is a transformatio...
19 Elo 202225min
