The New York Times reports that Melania Trump — who was visibly furious with her husband after the first reports broke that her husband paid a porn star “hush money” — is now supposedly “angry” with the “disgrace” of a criminal trial playing out in Manhattan. From the report: Join now to continue

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The following guest post is from Spencer Lindsay, a faculty member in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Predicting elections and estimating the uncertainty around those predictions is not an easy task. It is especially difficult to have a clear picture of the

I don’t agree with the idea that Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York City is a yawner. Sure, it’s a trial about business records. But it will also be packed with drama, involving a former president having sex with a porn star just after his wife Melania gave birth to their son in 2006 and

After seeing a post about a Republican candidate for the Kentucky House arrested for strangulation, a prominent political observer and longtime reader noted that Political Wire might have the most complete database of politicians doing bad things. He also noted that the overwhelming majority of