Triple Crown
His father and brother won in the Hawkeye State and Jeb’s hire of a top Iowa operative raises the expectation that he will play there, too.
Ben Jacobs is a former reporter for The Daily Beast. His journalism has also been published in outlets like The Boston Globe, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Salon and Capital New York. You can follow him on Twitter at @bencjacobs.
Disgrace
At one of the most influential synagogues in Washington, a rabbi secretly taped dozens of women as they undressed for a ritual bath. Now he's on trial, and his victims are speaking.
TEXAS JUSTICE
A Texas judge who has effectively paused the implementation of Obama’s executive order on immigration, has a long history of pleasing conservatives.
SMH
The House and Senate Republicans are edging ever closer to a totally predictable shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
Fight Club
Huckabee and Santorum are both returning to Iowa as former caucus champions but are now completing for the same pool of evangelical supporters.
Hawkeye Visit
While there’s certainly a hunger for Democratic attention among activists in the state, the vice president’s trip this week might not be what they’re looking for.
Louisiana Governor and potential 2016 hopeful Bobby Jindal used a speech at a swanky Washington hotel to slam “elite bureaucrats” who implemented Common Core.
‘I Call It Like It Is’
Rep. Alan Grayson may be married to a bigamist. He’s compared the Tea Party to the KKK. He also wants to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate—and Republicans couldn’t be more thrilled.
He Said, He Said
David Axelrod is claiming Romney ‘shocked and irritated’ the president by talking about Election Night turnout in racial code—but Garrett Jackson says his boss said no such thing.
Showdown Over Immigration
Senate Republicans want to link a bill to fund the department with another measure to defund Obama’s immigration executive order—but Democrats are digging in. Who will blink first?