Why does a former Lt. Governor of Vermont lose a race for Congress and then return to run again for her old office. Welcome to the "Pain Cave.''

There is a book that tells you how to be an activist. Tools to Save our Home Planet tells you how to start, how to stay at it over the long term. Everyone has their own way. But the folks at Patagonia never disappoint.

Freed from mainstream media, John Harwood is right there to correct every lie on Twitter with a mix of old-school journalism experience and acerbic comment. Refreshing!

How the Dems victories affect shutdown, presidential aspirations and everything else.

My federal judge classmate tells Trump he cannot send national guard troops to Portland. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Richard Read explains Judge Karin Imergut’s ruling.

A Senate veteran and former chief of staff says the shutdown is high-risk for Democrats because of Russell Vought is hiding in the tall grass.

Few embody the rules of accurate and fair journalism more than Balz, who covered presidential campaigns for 40-plus years and understands why voters went to Trump better than anyone. Why? Because he talks to them all the time, on the ground, with a reporter’s eye and ear. We may not see the likes of him again. So I had to talk to him!

Journalist Nina Burleigh dissects the strange world of two sexual predators.

You win wars with armies. Bombs don’t work. And they only piss off the people you bomb for another generation. (Iran) Nuclear weapons scholar Ward Wilson joins me. 

Who do you talk to when you have just watched the best tennis match in history? Your local tennis pro of course. Breaking down Sinner vs. Alcaraz at the French Open with Daron Forohar.