Jonathan Allen
Former Chief Political Correspondent
Jon’s reported on Congress, the White House and electoral politics in Washington for 15 years. He’s a co-author of the New York Times-bestselling “HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton” and a winner of the Dirksen and Hume awards for his reporting on Congress. Before coming to Vox, he was Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg, White House bureau chief for Politico and a reporter for Congressional Quarterly and The Hill. Jon graduated from the University of Maryland.
Latest articles by Jonathan Allen
Carson was in the middle of the stage Wednesday night. But he was nowhere near the center of the debate.
Improbably, she was the beneficiary of a congressional grilling.
This is an abuse of an important congressional tool.
The Benghazi committee’s deposition of Sid Blumenthal proved that it’s more interested in attacking Hillary Clinton than in learning about Benghazi.
The vice president is the rightful heir to the Obama legacy, and he may be the only viable alternative to Hillary Clinton.
Moderate Republicans may be worrying that the Benghazi committee’s partisan investigation will hurt them more than Hillary Clinton.
One of Clinton’s toughest challenges is convincing the Democratic base to nominate the primary candidate who is the most comfortable with the use of military force.
“She was poised, she was passionate, and she was in command,” David Axelrod said of the former secretary of state’s performance in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate.
“A job is about more than a paycheck,” the vice president says in the ad by a group encouraging him to run. “It’s about being able to look your child in the eye and say, ‘honey, it’s going to be okay,’ and mean it and know it’s true.”