The True Source of the NRA’s Clout: Mobilization, Not Donations

Jennifer Charteris does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has … The Labor Party has pledged to create a A$280 million research institute to “take politicsout of the classroom” and “put an end to decades of …

Animated by a wave of polling since the Florida massacre, Democratic governors warned that candidates would pay a political price for opposing new gun regulations, and some of their Republican counterparts conceded that the pleas of voters could no longer be ignored as they increasingly abandon the …

To many of its opponents, that decades-long string of victories is proof that the N.R.A. has bought its political support. But the numbers tell a more complicated story: The organization’s political action committee over the last decade has not made a single direct contribution to any current member of the …

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The adviser, Rick Gates, is a longtime political consultant who once served as Mr. Trump’s deputy campaign chairman. The plea deal could be a significant development in the investigation — a sign that Mr. Gates plans to offer incriminating information against his longtime associate and the former Trump …

How easy is it to change people’s votes in an election? The answer, a growing number of studies conclude, is that most forms of political persuasion seem to have little effect at all. This conclusion may sound jarring at a time when people are concerned about the effects of the false news articles that flooded …

American politics have always been rife with individuals who invoked the Almighty and sought divine leverage to achieve their own agendas. Partisans on both the right and the left have revered such figures – when they agreed with their ends – and reviled them when they did not. But it is hard to think of …

Britons are “sceptical” about how the Government and charities spend their money on aid projects Penny Mordaunt has admitted in the wake of the sex scandal that has rocked voluntary organisations. The International Development secretary told senior figures in the voluntary sector that the British people …

President Donald Trump blamed former President Barack Obama for failing to stop Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images). President Donald Trump on Tuesday blamed former President Barack Obama for failing to stop Russia’s meddling in …

She said during the interview that “we have to look at the totality of the presidency” and Clinton’s record “on women’s issues generally,” essentially arguing that Clinton’s conduct towards women should be tolerated due to his political views. That is why I recently joined other female conservative leaders in …