Politics

Rep. Richard Neal told fellow Democrats on the committee that the hearing should instead focus on ways to achieve “universal health care.”

Sanders is responding to The Intercept’s exposé on Operation Car Wash, an anti-corruption probe that landed the former Brazilian president in prison.

Thanks to Kamala Harris’s predecessor, the San Francisco DA’s office had files on clergy sex abusers. But Harris refused to share them with victims.

The Justice Department and FBI recently eliminated the official category for investigating white supremacist crimes.

The district attorney race is testing the power and relevance of the Queens machine.

A Democratic retreat for congressional chiefs of staff includes a panel on how to work with K Street, and a happy hour with lobbyists.

Joe Biden argued that mandating contraception coverage through Obamacare would alienate swing-state Catholic male voters.

“I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if for some reason we didn’t sustain the governor’s veto by one vote.”

With the help of a who’s who of conservative activists, the Supreme Court justice’s wife aims to open up a new front in America’s political wars.

Hannah Arendt noted that if a leader lies all the time, “nobody believes anything any longer. ... You can then do what you please.”