Author: Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner

Court shopping The mega merger of Kroger and Albertsons is poised to do more than change the signs and prices at your supermarket. As the grocery giants fight with attorneys general in several states, a pivotal showdown with the Federal Trade Commission in Ohio could wind up expanding Kroger’s brand and hobbling the administrative state…

Georgia on everyone’s mind Few states have earned more interest, scrutiny, praise, and criticism in the last four years than Georgia. The Peach State was the center of former President Donald Trump’s attention in 2020 when he narrowly lost to President Joe Biden by roughly 11,000 votes. Two years later, it was the poster child…

‘Blue wall’ reinforcement None of the seven primary battlegrounds have tipped so far in one direction that either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump can afford to take their foot off the gas. Both candidates are scrapping for every inch of ground for a map that was shaken up by President Joe…

Counting on the Keystone State Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are working on truncated timelines and with a miniscule map. The abbreviated contest that only came together under 45 days ago is a historical outlier. Most campaigns develop over months, sometimes years, as the Democratic and Republican principals do a slow…

Sticky situation in the Tar Heel State Swapping out the presidential candidate at the top of a ticket roughly 100 days before Election Day tends to shake up the electoral map. Vice President Kamala Harris has helped Democrats feel better about holding on to North Carolina, a reliably blue state in presidential contests that former…

Battleground beginnings With the 2024 presidential contest hinging on a few thousand votes in roughly seven states, every ballot, and who is casting them, is facing intense scrutiny. Besides a handful of national rules governing the voting process, each state is allowed a certain amount of leeway to conduct elections the way it sees fit.…

The interview we’ve all been waiting for Last night, the most engaged voters got what they’ve been waiting for since Vice President Kamala Harris announced she was running to replace President Joe Biden 39 days ago. By dancing around calls to offer firm policy positions and hemming and hawing about when she would sit down…

Iran looms President Joe Biden came into the White House with a foreign policy chip on his shoulder. He wanted to prove his decades in the Senate had equipped him to know more about the world than his former boss, President Barack Obama, ever gave him credit for. While he tried to separate himself from…

Nobody is listening There was a time not long ago when countries looked to the United States as more than a global police department. The physical ability to enforce rules and a particular U.S.-centric agenda on the world was an outgrowth of a general acknowledgment that America was the preeminent world leader, and crossing it…

Kamala Harris’s immigration nation Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris appears to have been listening to the critics complaining about her emphasis on “vibes” rather than painting a clear picture of her policy plans. During her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Thursday, Harris selectively detoured from a speech heavy on biography…