The slain U.S. senator, like his martyred brother, knew how important it was to concede defeat—a lesson Trump still hasn’t learned.
Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews has worked as a political aide, author, broadcast host, and journalist. He is the author of This Country: My Life in Politics and History and Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked. He is a senior fellow at The Charles F. Kettering Foundation.
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What Trump Means by “Great Television!”
Donald Trump wants to kill the Department of Education while he creates a new one for himself.
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Bill Cassidy, A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You
With the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nomination, the Louisiana senator’s moment is here to do the right thing, like in the novel and film Advice and Consent.
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Before I Was a Politico and a Journalist, I Was a U.S. Capitol Police Officer
My heart broke over Trump’s January 6 insurrection and again after his unconscionable pardons
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Jimmy Carter’s Segregation Journey
Born in the Jim Crow South, Carter saw the scaffolding of segregation dismantled in his native Georgia.
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The Jimmy Carter Way
I worked for the 39th president, who, years later, reflected on his audacious 1976 presidential victory as a Washington outsider, forging the Camp David and Panama Canal treaties, and why he put the Iranian-held American hostages first.
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I Asked Trump if Women Should Be Punished for Having an Abortion. He Said, “Yes.”
My 2016 interview revealed that he was willing to go further than the Catholic Church or right-to-life groups, and this was a mainstay in ads this year. But it wasn’t enough
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The Furies Tormenting Donald Trump
E. Jean Carroll, Cassidy Hutchinson, Nikki Haley, Tanya Chutkan—they’re just some of those who could bring down the former president who once boasted about grabbing women by their private parts.
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Nikki, We Hardly Knew Ye
The former South Carolina governor vows to press on, but Trump’s hold on the party seems irrevocable, and she’s still not made a passionate case for why she should be president.
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The New Hampshire Primary: A Love Story
This is my tenth Granite State presidential primary, and this time, I am reporting for the Washington Monthly. In 1992, I started a family tradition of bringing one of our children along for the big final weekend of cold and snowy campaigning. First came my son, Michael, then Thomas in 1996. In 2000, it was […]
