The votes were the culmination of a months-long argument about how quickly to enforce restrictions on spending from the two taxes, and in particular the Sweetened Beverage Tax.

Before left-liberal candidates run away with the Democratic party and get Donald Trump re-elected, one of the moderate progressives has to have a breakout moment in the second round of presidential debates next week.

By Nick Licata and Roger Scott The Supreme Court recently gave the green light to 29 states (with 46% of the Congressional seats) to...

Donald Trump is living in my head and I can't get him out. When I'm swimming laps in the pool or playing fetch with...

If the Democratic Party keeps surging to the left and nominates a 2020 candidate who can be credibly labeled “socialist,” “radical,” or just far out of mainstream, it will not only reelect Donald Trump, but unleash a cascade of nightmares on itself and the nation.

When Apple News forwarded a reported on a 2.3 magnitude earthquake near Moores Mill, Alabama, it was clear the cycle of online sensation that...

Trump’s evil genius has been on full display of late. On one level his attacks on the four members of Congress known as the ...

You may not have heard of them yet, but two fresh players in  Seattle’s civic arena may right now be busy establishing themselves as Seattle’s newest...

Granted, having Congress try (and likely fail) to impeach Trump is a high enough risk to make this option largely hypothetical, and maybe politically...

As the civil war among Congressional Democrats heats up and comes to define Democratic politics, the case will be made that AOC & Co....

The New York Times’ Tom Edsall has established himself as one of the very best political analysts in the country, consistently backing his...

How many single-issue climate change activist candidates does it take to run for president? I suspect it's like Highlander; there is only room for...

It looks like the presidential campaign of former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is coming to an end. Key advisers are leaving, and the pressure...

Several anti-Trump moderate-to-conservatives followed up on the Democratic Party Debates last month by worrying that the Democrats had let themselves be pushed too far...

The Seattle City Council just passed, 8-0, zoning modifications that will make it much easier to build backyard cottages and parent-in-law units in the...

A lot of Democrats are lining up for pole positions, assuming Jay Inslee decides not to seek a third term. Here's a good Crosscut...

We are not yet post gender. But watching three women presidential hopefuls in each of the debates helped normalize their presence and that makes...

I was hiking recently with a friend who had turned eighty this spring. I asked how that felt. “I don’t recommend it,” she said. I...

My 10 hot takes from Night 2 of the first Democratic debate (Night 1's hot takes can be read here): First, wow, what a difference...

“This is more difficult than last night.” That was a shared sentiment among my viewing foursome for Round Two of the Democratic “Debates.” Why? Overall, the...

A quick take on the second 10: My overriding takeaway tonight is that the NBC interviewers did a terrible job of keeping the discourse orderly...

Fulcrum is a project of Issue One, one of the leading national groups working on saving democracy from ruinous hyper-partisanship. The movement involves...

TV entertainment now deeply undergirds the forms of our political discourse.  In the year 2016 we had the framing power of The Apprentice.  NBC’s answer in...

Sen. Cory Booker was the real pro in the first debate, a man born to aspire to the presidency. He put slower-tongued politicians like...

He's unfortunately going nowhere and the Thursday night moderators half the time wouldn't let him talk, but I think John Delaney made a lot...

Nobody really disqualified themselves, though no one really stepped up to dominate. Inslee had a great first answer on climate change, painting his state...