By Colby Etherton On April 25, President Joe Biden announced his intent to run for reelection. It was a decision that was widely expected, and likely affirmed by a string of legislative wins over the course of his term and the unexpected performance Democrats had in the midterms, increasing their numbers in the Senate and

By Johnny Trlica Commentary: On Thursday, March 30, four words echoed across the country, from sea to shining sea: “It’s about damn time.” It wasn’t a mass sing-along to a Lizzo song, but was the moment we learned that maybe we really are a nation of laws. We, as a democracy, had begun to wonder

By Colby Etherton  For months, Democrats and Republicans have clashed over raising the debt ceiling. It is estimated that the Treasury Department will have exhausted its means for the government to pay its bills on time by as early as July, and so far there is no compromise. Republicans seek to push Democrats to agree

By Colby Etherton Last month, on February 7, 2023, President Joe Biden gave his second State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. His address largely centered on his accomplishments in his first two years in office, particularly bipartisan pieces of legislation such as the infrastructure package that was signed into law

By Colby Etherton Over the past few weeks, revelations that classified government documents were found at President Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and in a private office of his in Washington D.C., have raised questions about Biden’s handling of classified documents that many have compared to the infamous FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last August. There

By Colby Etherton On January 3, 2023, the 118th Congress was sworn in. While Democrats maintained and even improved upon their lead in the Senate, they did narrowly lose the House to Republicans — something that was expected, but by a smaller margin than most were anticipating. The House currently stands at 222 seats for

By Colby Etherton For months, the narrative on the midterms was that Democrats were facing an inevitable shellacking. Not just because of historical precedent (which points to how rare it is for Presidents to gain seats in Congress during their first midterm cycle, with few exceptions — such as Republicans expanding on their majority in

By Colby Etherton After a slow march toward midterm season, the midterm elections have finally arrived. In mere days, the nation will turn out and vote on hundreds of races that will dictate the makeup of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. It’s been a strange midterm season, where the narrative hasn’t followed

By Colby Etherton  With midterm elections just over a month away, the campaign trail is heating up and the plethora of political ads are about to come crashing in. Conventional wisdom is that in a midterm cycle, the party that is not in the White House tends to gain seats in both the House and

By Colby Etherton  Much has happened in Washington the past several weeks, from the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act to President Biden announcing that $10,000 to $20,000 in student loan debt will be forgiven. The Inflation Reduction Act, for its part, is a much smaller version of Build Back Better, a massive piece of