Lawmakers in the Democratic-led New York state legislature Monday rejected a new congressional map proposed by an independent redistricting commission, the latest political twist in a state that could play a large role in determining which party wins control of the House. The New York Senate voted down the map proposal Monday afternoon, followed by […]Read More

Summaries of Donald Trump’s speech at a Black Conservative Federation (BCF) event on Friday can hardly capture the extent of the bizarre pandering that it entailed. Yes, Trump indicated that the mug shot that accompanied his arrest in Georgia had been embraced by “the Black population” more than any other group. “You see Black people […]Read More

President Biden and former president Donald Trump are both traveling to Texas border towns on Thursday, creating an unusual spectacle of dueling visits in which the prospective 2024 presidential rivals are expected to vociferously blame each other for chaos at the border. Biden will visit Brownsville, making his second trip to the border since becoming […]Read More

A majority of the Supreme Court seemed broadly skeptical Monday that state governments have the power to set rules for how social media platforms curate content, with both liberal and conservative justices inclined to stop Texas and Florida from immediately implementing laws that forbid removing certain controversial posts or political content. Even as justices expressed […]Read More

The past month has been a whirlwind for the politics of NATO. Former president Donald Trump continued to undermine the alliance — and scare allies — by saying he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to NATO allies who don’t pay enough. And a Republican U.S. senator is blaming the United […]Read More

LOS ANGELES — A former FBI informant pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he lied to the FBI when he claimed to know that Joe Biden and his son Hunter took bribes, and the judge overseeing his case ordered him to remain in jail out of concern he might flee the country. Alexander Smirnov […]Read More

After hundreds of thousands of Mexican migrants were put on buses, planes and boats during the scorching summer of 1954 and sent across the U.S. border into often-unfamiliar parts of Mexico, the head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service declared the border “secured.” “The so-called ‘wetback’ problem no longer exists,” Joseph Swing wrote, using a […]Read More

President Biden and former president Donald Trump will visit border cities in Texas on Thursday, underscoring the central role of border security and immigration heading into the election to determine which party will control the White House and Congress. Biden will travel to Brownsville, Tex., on Thursday to meet with U.S. Border Patrol agents, law […]Read More

Violent crime is one of those issues for which the introduction of nuance is understandably tricky. No one wants to be the person tasked with suggesting that, anecdotal examples of horrible crimes notwithstanding, trends aren’t as bleak as they seem. Just as the conflation of anecdotes with trends triggered the need for the nuance, the […]Read More

Banning abortion has been far better in theory than in practice for the Republican Party. After the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door to abortion restrictions, the party has struggled mightily with the new paradigm. And few examples drive that home like the party’s embrace of in vitro fertilization […]Read More