Politics & Power

Let’s talk about that Big Beautiful Bill the House passed, which is now in the Senate’s hands. Political analysts say if you look at the bill closely, yes, it delivers on President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda and cuts taxes. But they question at what cost. The answer is that the cost will be to the tune of lost health care for 8.6 million Americans through Medicaid or Obamacare subsidies. It ra...

Some Democrats say it was a mistake to allow then-President Joe Biden to remain in the 2024 race for as long as they did. A new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, contains some bombshells and raises some fundamental questions that the Democrats must ask: Did Biden’s team deceive them, or...

Since the United States was founded in 1776, 17 popes have presided over the Catholic Church. Until May 8, 2025, none of the men who held the post in the Vatican had been from the United States. History was made that day when Robert Prevost emerged on the balcony and proclaimed to the thousands of people from around the world who had assembled below in St. Peter’s Square: “La pace sia con tutti vo...

The political future for Ron and Casey DeSantis seems very precarious. Political analysts say it may even be in jeopardy. In fact, those analysts will tell you their more immediate present may also be in jeopardy. They hoped to establish a dynasty. Then, a scandal tied to Hope Florida surfaced. Claims to the future of the Republican party are very much in question in Florida and nationally. There...

April 29 marked 100 days in office for President Donald Trump. His second term in office has moved at a dizzying pace, with Trump enacting executive orders and policies with a fury. Intent on remaking the Executive Branch, he empowered Elon Musk to push aside civil servants and strike fear in the federal workforce. He launched the largest deportation program in U.S. history.

The U.S. Supreme Court is jumping headfirst into turbulent waters with issues that have become politically divisive. The 18th-century wartime authority to speed deportations known as the Alien Enemies Act is back in the high court’s hands. Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to employ the controversial authority, the issue was literally rocketed back to the j...

Since last November’s election, the Democratic Party has been wrestling with several questions: How to bring about a leadership change? How to develop an effective message that resonates with the public? How to get districts that President Donald Trump won to rebrand with the mid-term elections on the horizon? On Capitol Hill, several younger freshmen senators are gaining prominence, and there are...

Members of the legal community say that President Donald Trump’s “multi-pronged assault” on the Department of Justice, the nation’s major law firms, and the judiciary undermines central tenets of the U.S. justice system. And they don’t stop there. They say the damage will be generational and raises concerns about the judiciary’s independence. At the root of what’s going on is retribution.

The Trump administration continues its promise of a mass deportation of immigrants it says are in the country illegally. The problem is that the administration is not going after just the criminal element it said it would target. Look at the headlines on an almost daily basis. There are documented cases of people with U.S. passports -- and no criminal background -- being arrested by immigration of...

The Democrats' downward spiral seems to continue as the party is in disarray. Their message... oh wait, they have none. Some are wondering out loud: “Are the Dems broken beyond repair?” Well, look at history and you’ll find out that politics is cyclical. Time to convene the class? OK, here we go. Turn back the clock to the mid-90s. The Republican Party was not unlike the current-day GOP. They wand...

Some of the key cases before the nation’s highest court come into focus this week on Politics & Power. Reverse discrimination One of the cases being tackled has to do with reverse discrimination. At question is whether the U.S. Supreme Court will remove the additional “background circumstances” requirement. Suing gun manufacturers The second case up for discussion has to do with lawsuits against m...

The war between Ukraine and Russia is at a critical crossroads. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are pushing to end the war. But the reality is that within that push lies a dangerous fault line that opens further as Trump rushes to end the war. Issues concerning both Ukrainian and European security mean a quick fix might not be possible. Not helping matters, offici...

Word is Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis is seriously considering a gubernatorial run in 2026. (Although she has not announced anything official yet). Reports first surfaced in an NBC News exclusive report a couple of weeks ago when word got out that Republican donors in Palm Beach County openly discussed the prospect of Casey DeSantis succeeding her husband Ron in the governor’s office in Tallah...

He is the world’s richest man. He is also the president’s largest campaign benefactor. His companies have grown on government contracts. And he is calling a lot of the shots in Washington. He is Elon Musk an unelected businessman who has spent the last couple of weeks with his allies tearing through Washington causing confusion and chaos in government agencies. Among the questions begging to be as...

The clock is tick-tocking on the Supreme Court’s latest calendar. Several things before the nation’s highest court have national significance. First, let’s revisit what’s happening with the social media site TikTok. On Jan. 20, the Supreme Court upheld the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary-Controlled Applications Act. It’s the law that requires Chinese government–controlled corporation B...

Now that he is President Donald Trump again, there is still talk about immigration, cabinet confirmations and the economy. But there are a myriad of questions about another focus of the president: What’s been dubbed his “Annexation Agenda.” Trump, in the past, criticized U.S. military involvement in other countries, but he did a complete turnaround in recent weeks, pushing the idea that he wants t...

Inauguration Day is Jan. 20. President-elect Donald Trump and his team made a series of promises that would happen if he were to win the election. No one will argue that 2025 got off to a turbulent start. It leaves the president-elect having to confront a difficult opening to the 2nd Trump presidency. As one analyst put it, he’ll be “confronting the kinds of crises he has long been railing against...

The future has a history. And while we can’t see into the future, looking into our past can prove powerful. That said, there are two quotes that come to mind. Let’s start with George Bernard Shaw (quoting German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel): “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” Politically, 2024 had me and many others, quite frankly, taken aback. It was a year...

The world is watching to see if the Middle East is on the brink of monumental change precipitated by the ouster of Syria’s Bashar Assad. Rebels forced Assad to flee and seek asylum in Moscow, marking a major turning point in the nation’s 14-year civil war and more than 50 years of his family’s brutal rule. There are those who believe this will engender a major ripple effect. In fact, one GOP lawma...

The leaders of both major political parties have argued this nation’s justice system is politically biased. President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, after promising he wouldn’t because he felt the Justice Department, his own Justice Department, treated his son unfairly. He said, “raw politics” had “infected” Hunter Biden’s prosecution on gun and tax evasion offenses and “led to a miscarriage...

President-elect Donald Trump promised to make immigration a priority on his first day in office. And he has confirmed since winning the election that he plans to declare a national emergency and mount a mass deportation campaign. The promise will come, not through new legislation, not through structured policy change, but through Executive Order. Mr. Trump wants to send hundreds of thousands of pe...

President Joe Biden’s goal is to secure his legacy as he spends his last weeks in the White House. While the people in his administration work to prioritize the agenda and emphasize the things that might secure that legacy, they are mindful that Biden’s successor (who was also his predecessor) is lurking in the wings and come Jan. 20 will likely tear it all down. There is little doubt that now tha...

One political analyst described the flurry of President-elect Donald Trump’s blizzard of Cabinet picks as “MAGA shock & awe.” They could only be described as unorthodox. And it leaves one wondering if this country is about to take a dangerous ride. The earthquake started with appointing the world’s richest man — his buddy Elon Musk — to head a new department. His job: gut government agencies and d...

President-elect Donald Trump is laying out an agenda for his second term in the White House. And with the first female Chief of Staff in history by his side, a lot of people wonder if Susie Wiles, a political operative from Jacksonville, will have a profound impact on the tenor of a second Trump term. President-elect Trump promises the largest deportation of immigrants in American history, sweepin...

Young voters may hold the key to this year’s election and could very well play a decisive role in who is next to occupy the Oval Office. That’s why both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are actively working to court young voters, especially in key battleground states where polls consistently show the two in a neck-and-neck race. The bottom line: Both Trump and Harris...