Republican Party

Arguably one of the more hilariously sad events in the 2024 GOP presidential nomination contest dominated by former President Donald Trump is Nikki Haley doing a victory lap after winning Washington, D.C. Sunday’s conquest was the…

Mitch McConnell and his friends are keen to paint the outgoing majority leader as the bookend of the Age of Reagan. Even some of his liberal opponents are happy to repeat the lazy mantra, if only to contrast gooey 1980s nostalgia with the…

Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced Wednesday he will step down from his leadership role this fall, citing his age and health. “One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to…

After nearly 40 years of wreaking havoc on the Republican Party and nation, the longest-serving Senate leader in history Mitch McConnell announced on Wednesday he’ll retire from GOP leadership — in November. The news was a long time coming…

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley refused to quit the presidential race Saturday following an overwhelming defeat in her own state. The Associated Press called the contest for the Republican frontrunner Donald Trump shortly after…

If you’ve been paying attention to conservative political discourse in America, you’ve probably seen a recurring message spoken into the ether of social media by all manner of pundits and politicos. Different factions within the party are…

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ departure from the GOP race this week gives Republicans yet another chance to learn a vital lesson. Somehow, though, we just don’t seem to be getting it. In the late spring of 2023, I was talking to a friend who had…

“To attract female voters, we would probably have to color the elephant logo pink and give it long eyelashes, and then we’d need to come up with a backstory for her. Maybe we’d call her Enid the Elephant and she’d be a mother of three…

In August, Federalist columnist Eddie Scarry mocked former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as “Hillary Clinton 2.0.” Talk about a take that aged well. In the fall, the DeSantis campaign even began using prior footage of Haley admiring the…

The impeachment of thrice-elected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton by the Texas House of Representatives in May drew national attention to the internecine quarrels between conservatives and moderates within the Republican Party in the Lone…