Are the Democrats exposing their hypocrisy with Rep. Adam Schiff's sudden interest in transparency and wanting his memo released? What was Carter Page’s involvement in the Trump campaign? How did the Trump White House handle the Porter resignation?

The Schiff memo claims the FBI acted appropriately at all times, but are sources based on FBI documents and protocols flatly rejecting that assertion? Did the Democrats purposely put things in the memo that needed to be redacted to make Trump look untr...

Should Gen. Kelly step down over the handling of the Rob Porter revelations? Are there two Trumps, TV attention-grabbing Donald and behind the scenes reasonable Donald? Does anyone at the White House miss Bannon?

A Bruce Rauner vs. J.B. Pritzker race seemed like a forgone conclusion for a while, but with voters on both sides of the aisle unhappy with those choices, the gubernatorial primaries are up for grabs. On this edition of Illinois Rising,

Was Rand Paul correct in saying that neither of the parties care about the national debt? Was raising the spending caps a capitulation on principle for the Republicans? How are the Trump tax reform “crumbs” benefitting small businesses and middle-i...

"Top FBI officials wanted to believe Steele. They needed to believe Steele. So they believed Steele." Renowned Russian Studies professor, Stephen Cohen, wants to know if we still have only three branches of government?

Rauner is set to give his budget address next week despite the fact that Illinois hasn’t had a balanced budget since 2001 and he hasn't proposed one in his three years in office. What should be laid out in the budget preview in order to give Illinois...

In the new budget deal, did the Republicans take full advantage of the leverage Trump had won over the Democrats on the previous government shutdown? Trump didn’t campaign on being a budget hawk, but how does the expansion of the federal budget help ...

Is Trump making a mistake obsessing over the Dow Jones and S&P numbers? What’s the significance of the fact that the stock market is still up 35% since Trump took office? Did the rise in wages spook the sell-offs? Does prosperity cause inflation?

Which politician feels more compelled to rehabilitate their image based on their 2016 performance, Hillary Clinton or Comey? The Democrats said the release of the Nunes memo would be catastrophic to national security, but now they say it’s irrelevant.