I was sitting at dinner with my editor in early 2022 when filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza challenged me to a debate. I had written an article assessing claims from the right-wing group True the Vote alleging that millions of ballots had been collected during the 2020 presidential election and dropped into ballot boxes — an effort […]Read More

Donald Trump had much more success persuading his peers outside his Manhattan courtroom than the 12 jurors within it. From the moment he was indicted in New York last year — and before it, really — Trump framed the effort as inherently political and, by extension, inherently invalid. Last week, the jurors offered their disagreement: […]Read More

Early in her career, Arati Prabhakar led the development of a self-piloting ship for a secretive U.S. military research agency. Now she’s the White House’s top technology official — the first to hail from a defense background since the Cold War and a representative of Washington’s new hard-line consensus on China. For three decades, the […]Read More

“You have places like Wisconsin with over 500 illegal drop box locations … you have places like Georgia where liberal groups were paying people $10 per vote. … Look at what happened in Arizona, 200,000 ballots, that the signatures didn’t match.” — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), in remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” May 19 […]Read More

Promising to make things more expensive when consumers already are angry over high prices might seem an unusual political strategy. But it’s one that both President Biden and former president Donald Trump are choosing. Both men, as they vie for a second White House term, say that tariffs on imported Chinese goods are needed to […]Read More

WILMINGTON, Del. — Jury selection for the trial of President Biden’s son Hunter on Monday turned into an impromptu but painful indictment ofthe nation’s drug epidemic, with person after person telling the court of their loved ones’ battles with addiction. Judge Maryellen Noreika swore in a dozen jurors — plus four alternates — to determine […]Read More

Embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Monday filed to run for reelection as an independent amid his trial on federal corruption charges. Menendez’s campaign submitted 2,465 signatures to the New Jersey Division of Elections. He was required to submit at least 800. Menendez’s corruption trial is underway in New York. He and his wife were […]Read More

For eight years, Larry Hogan was a Republican governor of a heavily blue state. This is a unique role in American politics, one of the last remaining places where the partisan bifurcation that defines national politics fails to draw sharp boundaries. Hogan won election and reelection in Maryland even as the state voted for Democrats […]Read More