
Jeff Stein
Former reporter on politics & policy
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“I don’t trust the bookkeepers. I don’t trust the people who say, ‘This president spent X and this president spent Y.’”


The “Trumpized Republican intelligentsia” predicted by Ross Douthat will be in full force at CPAC 2017.


Trump started reelection fundraising years earlier than any president in modern American history.


For President Trump, “life is a campaign.”


GOP-controlled investigations of Trump and Russia are underway. Critics wonder how how far they’ll go.


“You know what uranium is, right? It’s this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium.”


The new nominee’s CV could hardly look more different than that of Trump’s first pick.


Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz: Playing basketball with Ted Cruz won’t make the Senate work better.


The US Senate is further than ever from its founding ideal — and that may be a good thing.


Andrew Puzder was sunk by two high-profile scandals that led several Republican senators to refuse to support his candidacy.