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Richard Cordray
2022 midterms
Jan. 25, 2021
Republican Senator Rob Portman to Retire in 2022 The fight for control of the Senate in 2022 is already underway. The key factor could be the kind of Republican divisions evident in Portman’s Ohio.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Oct. 3, 2018
Heartland Heartburn Grows for Republicans in Gubernatorial Races The very region that did so much to make Trump president is moving away from his party in the midterms.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Hope for Big Gubernatorial Gains This November With the gubernatorial landscape being the mirror image of the Senate’s pro-GOP tilt, Democrats should gain, but state politics can be complicated.
By Ed Kilgore
Favorites Win Nearly Everywhere on First Big Primary Night of 2018 With the exception of a GOP House member losing in North Carolina, upsets were few and far between in a four-state primary night.
By Ed Kilgore
What to Watch on 2018’s First Super Tuesday of Primaries Wild who’s-the-Trumpiest GOP Senate races in Indiana and West Virginia and a Democratic gubernatorial fight in Ohio are the big events.
By Ed Kilgore
Berniecrats Endorse Kucinich, Bernie Keeps His Distance If Sanders’s supporters go one way and he goes another in a key 2018 race, what does that say about 2020?
By Ed Kilgore
The Eternal Recurrence of Dennis Kucinich, Candidate for Office Yes, he’s back. In this incarnation he’s a Fox Democrat running for governor of Ohio.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Won’t Be Able to Defang the CFPB Without a Fight The president’s plan to put Mick Mulvaney in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — without Senate confirmation — might be illegal.
By Eric Levitz
Mick Mulvaney to Run Consumer Watchdog Agency He Hates Trump’s budget director once called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a “sick, sad joke.” Now, he’s the CFPB’s interim leader.
By Eric Levitz
Our Government’s Last Powerful Progressive Regulator Just Resigned Richard Cordray is out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Now, he might be in the race for governor of Ohio.
By Eric Levitz
The GOP Wants to Drain the Swamp of Wall Street’s Enemies by Any Means Necessary Richard Cordray can’t be fired without cause from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau until 2018. But the GOP is determined to find a cause.
By Eric Levitz
Senate Democrats Threaten Nuclear Option and Win Republicans have to let executive branch hostages go.
By Jonathan Chait
barack obama
Jan. 4, 2012
By Noreen Malone
