As Democrats wrangle over his domestic agenda, and anti-Trump conservatives agonize over political strategy, both should pay more attention to the 27-point drop in presidential approval among self-described independents.
Congress prepares to assert its investigative authority.
The Trump-era border measure relegated 70,000 migrants to dangerous conditions in Mexico while they awaited immigration court dates.
They favor special interests, hurt consumers, and have utterly failed to rein in China.
President Trump is telling former aides to assert executive privilege to frustrate the congressional investigation of January 6.
Josh Mandel and J.D. Vance are locked in a race to the bottom.
Rather than fighting for power, Americans should ignore each other and go about their lives.
The President's inaugural "unity" rhetoric has given way to apocalyptic condemnation.
A conservative law professor advised Donald Trump that Mike Pence could unilaterally overturn the 2020 election.
Before Mike Lindell's lunatic claims and Donald Trump's sour grapes over 2020, there was Hillary Clinton and the media's false insistence on Kremlin interference.
Democrats want to raise the debt ceiling, while Republicans occasionally remember they're against big government spending.
The Washington Post columnist says President Joe Biden isn't a progressive but "will go where the [Democratic] party goes, and the party is being driven by other people."
An audacious last-minute attempt to undo the results of the 2020 election.
There simply aren't enough rich people to finance all the new spending.
When government "gets out of the way, we're going to see again, the creativity of the American people," says the 80-year-old optimist.
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad.
Historian Stephen Wertheim says two decades of failed wars have finally made America more likely to embrace military restraint.
"You don’t get to lose a war and expect the result to look like you won it," says the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.
Thwarted politicians rant, pout, and are outraged by anybody who pushes back.
The health program won't be able to pay all of its bills starting in 2026, according to a new Trustees report.
Overheated rhetoric is a ploy to treat migrants like enemy combatants.
A federal judge concluded that Powell and eight other pro-Trump lawyers who challenged Michigan's election results made frivolous arguments and treated evidence recklessly.
Their study found that Twitter's efforts to police Donald Trump's false election fraud claims were ineffective and may even have backfired.
Although Patrick notes that blacks are less likely to be vaccinated than whites, the gap between Republicans and Democrats is much larger.
The foreign policy author and podcast host discusses Joe Biden's withdrawal and how to fix U.S. foreign policy.
The same institution that's unable to run the Postal Service or Amtrak orchestrated our invasion and withdrawal of Afghanistan.
Why did it take presidents so long to realize this?
Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Mike Lindell can still beat Dominion Voting Systems in court by showing that their accusations were true.
The political right's movement toward authoritarianism is exemplified by its refusal to embrace facts that don't conform to their alternative reality.
Another bad day for the Kraken team of lawyers.
Two rotten politicians demonstrate the sickness of America’s political culture.
Market power does not make a private company the equivalent of a government agency.
The popular podcaster and comedian on the future of the Libertarian Party, his vaccine hesitancy, and fighting the culture war
The ruling is unsurprising. But it does further strengthen the case against the moratorium, and increases the odds the issue might eventually make it to the Supreme Court.
Live-and-let-live political types are stuck between cultists and totalitarians.
The bill is the most far-reaching recent proposal of its kind.
Each major party portrays the other as a deadly threat to democracy.
Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell says the sheer volume of the affidavits she collected shows she exercised due diligence.
The House of Representatives gave the agency $2 billion in additional funding.
Governments at the state, local, and federal levels can obstruct our pursuit of happiness and at times even jeopardize our safety.
It will fail, and fail badly.
The suspension is based on "demonstrably false and misleading statements" that Giuliani made as Donald Trump's lawyer.
An interesting report by Jonathan Karl on how and when AG William Barr rejected President Trump's absurd election fraud claims.
Renew America Movement co-founder Miles Taylor vows, "We will split the vote and sink him."
The only L.P. member to ever hold national office says the party needs to stop being gratuitously shocking and start making the principled case for limited government.
The latest extension, which is expected to the be last, runs until July 31. Meanwhile, the legal battle over the moratorium will continue. And the plaintiffs' position is likely to be strengthened by the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid.
Trade news worth celebrating with a fine French wine.
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