America's founders dealt with "mobbish insurgents" by strengthening the democracy. By Michael Steele, MSNBC Opinion Columnist History will not soon forget the 1,500 disgruntled Americans who set out on a cold January morning with the goal of overthrowing our...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 11/22/21 10:01 AM EST The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world upside down and forced many to realize what truly matters — the health and safety of ourselves, our loved ones, first responders and those all around the globe....

Posted to Politics October 03, 2021 by Michael Steele, Ed Towns Despite the differences in our political perspectives as a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a representative who served in the Democratic congressional caucus for three decades, we...

How the Republican Party — my party — has quietly participated in the systematic deconstruction of our republic. By Michael Steele, MSNBC Opinion Columnist Addressing a reunion of Civil War soldiers in 1875, President Ulysses S. Grant predicted that the dividing line...

Republicans are cynically supporting anti-voting measures that will ultimately hurt both parties—and our country. by MICHAEL STEELE AND CARLOS CURBELO MARCH 29, 2021 5:30 AM When John F. Kennedy squared off against Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election, 64...

This Sunday, Trump will rally conservatives to himself, lacing every sentence with political arsenic. By Michael Steele, MSNBC Opinion Columnist By the time he’d left office, former President Donald Trump had successfully sold his “big lie” that the 2020 election was...

Congress, the states and the political parties must all rise to the moment we now find ourselves in. Donna Brazile and Michael Steele Opinion contributors The Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol showed democracy itself is threatened, not just from foreign adversaries but...

By Michael Steele, MSNBC Opinion Columnist The Democrats' lead impeachment manager avoided the obvious partisan traps that caused Republicans to shy away from conviction during Trump's first trial. The impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump has begun, and America once...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR  THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL Over 200 years ago, our nation’s Founding Fathers sat down and laid out what would become the most important document in American history. The United...

By Michael Steele, MSNBC Opinion Columnist Joe Biden is offering Republicans unity. Republicans should accept. During his 1796 Farewell Address, President George Washington said: “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in...

MICHAEL STEELE , FORMER GOP CHAIR. NEWSWEEK ON 1/19/21  When insurrectionists and thugs stormed the Capitol on January 6, their attack reverberated pain throughout our republic. Not just because of the power they hoped to exude by invoking fear, but because they tore...

Michael Steele, Opinion contributor. USA TODAY. 12/02/2020 Trump has ignored laws, punished whistleblowers, fired watchdogs, distorted executive powers, wasted taxpayer money and profited off his presidency. Americans turned out for the 2020 elections in numbers not...

By Michael Steele, Opinion Contributor- NBC NEWS. October 20, 2020. America has watched as the Republican Party stopped pursuing its animating principles of freedom and opportunity and instead gave up its voice on things that mattered. I am an American, a conservative...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR , THE HILL— 08/31/20 01:30 PM EDT The 1970s. America was changing. The trials of Watergate and Vietnam were testing the idealism of the 1960s. It may seem strange today, but I was a 17-year-old black kid growing up in DC's...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 04/14/20 10:30 AM EDT Are your health, home, and job likely to be safer if you live in a presidential battleground state? Might your life actually depend on it? And by making everyone’s vote count equally, would a...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL— 04/01/20 08:30 AM EDT COVID-19 first appeared a little over three months ago and its spread has been vicious. The virus has a stranglehold on the American health system, the economy and our way of life. In a matter of...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 10/17/19 07:00 PM EDT God blesses us with the precious gift of life, and what we do with that gift is the legacy we leave behind. And what a legacy Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) has left for us. Thurgood Marshall once...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 09/22/19 08:00 AM EDT Throughout my career in politics, especially as Lt. Gov. of Maryland, health care has been of considerable importance to me, especially the health-care challenges facing minority communities. We...

By SAUL ANUZIS and MICHAEL STEELE, Opinion Contributors, POLITICO, August 28, 2019 Every Colorado voter – Republicans in particular – should think twice about the opportunities and benefits that come from Colorado becoming the 13th jurisdiction to join the National...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 04/21/19 09:30 AM EDT Earlier this year I raised concern that many of the lessons that should have been learned from the 2008 financial crisis had not been; and that incoming Chairwoman of the House Financial Services...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 04/05/19 09:00 AM EDT No one saw her coming. The 29-year-old New York City bartender and political outsider who decided to call for a “political revolution” got herself elected to Congress as a Democrat last fall and...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 02/01/19 11:15 AM EST In 2007 the newly appointed Fed Chair, Ben Bernanke, declared that problems in the subprime mortgage market were so “limited” they would not create “significant spillovers." Within a year, those...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 08/28/18 11:00 AM EDT On a hot summer’s day in 2007, presidential candidate John McCain found himself in a bit of pickle: He was stuck at Reagan National airport hoping to catch a flight that would get him to a meet...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 07/26/18 09:30 AM EDT In May, the President gave his first major speech on lowering drug prices, making good on his campaign promise to go after drug makers to get lower prices for consumers. Following the speech, the...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 07/11/18 11:32 AM EDT “Elections have consequences. I won.” That was President Barack Obama’s response to congressional Republicans in a 2009 White House meeting regarding his economic proposals. If much of what has...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL — 10/26/17 05:00 PM EDT Let’s be clear: There is a difference between disruption and destruction. When any institution becomes static, myopic or just plain out of touch, there is value in disrupting the status...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL - 05/26/17 01:40 PM EDT The American Dream is dying. Or at least that’s how it may feel to millions of Americans priced out of the housing market. Since the 2008 financial crash that led to the Great Recession, middle...

BY MICHAEL STEELE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, THE HILL - 05/26/17 01:40 PM EDT Apparently asking Greg Gianforte, the Republican contender in Montana's recent special election, a question about the Congressional Budget Office scoring of the Republican healthcare bill is...