President Biden from the start of Thursday’s debate spoke with a voice that was thin and raspy — at times, even when delivering lines meant to be forceful, speaking barely above a whisper — and about 10 minutes into the debate he appeared to lose his focus, unable to complete a train of thought. “I […]Read More

President Biden and former president Donald Trump took the stage Thursday for the first presidential debate of the general election cycle, and they are scheduled to face off again in less than three months. Biden and Trump agreed in May to participate in two debates: One hosted Thursday by CNN and another hosted by ABC […]Read More

The victory lap began before the debate was over. Donald Trump’s aides had prepared for him to face the fiery President Biden who showed up to the State of the Union earlier this year. Instead, the former president faced a shaky opponent whose stumbles sent Democrats into a full-blown panic — and Trump largely held […]Read More

The Supreme Court on Friday curtailed the power of federal government agencies to regulate vast parts of American life, overturning a 40-year-old legal precedent long targeted by conservatives who say the government gives unaccountable bureaucrats too much authority. For decades, the court’s decision in Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council directed judges to defer […]Read More

High-profile Democratic officials, including some who have been floated as possible replacements should President Biden step aside as the party’s nominee, have begun weighing in on his debate performance Thursday night. Some of these Democrats have conceded that the commander in chief had a rocky debate night. But they still broadly defended the substance of […]Read More

The Democratic Party has spent much of the 2024 campaign burying its head in the sand over Americans’ concerns with President Biden’s age and mental sharpness. Rather than reckon with the problem, its most influential voices have cast it as an overblown media construct. But the party abruptly jerked its head out of that sand […]Read More

Federal prosecutors improperly charged a Jan. 6 defendant with obstruction, a divided Supreme Court ruled on Friday, likely upending many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election. After the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors charged more than 350 participants in the pro-Trump mob with obstructing or […]Read More

The Supreme Court on Friday curtailed the power of federal agencies to regulate the environment, public health and other fundamental aspects of American life. The 6-3 ruling, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., could make it easier for courts to block regulations aimed at addressing air pollution, combating climate change and protecting endangered […]Read More

President Biden is now threatened by the sentiment that brought him to the White House. Democrats came into 2020 traumatized by their party’s 2016 loss and by four years of Donald Trump’s hard-right presidency. The party internalized the idea that the key to beating Trump was doing better with blue-collar Midwestern Whites, and Biden was […]Read More