The American political right’s complicated internal debate over Russia and Vladimir Putin is coming to a head. Even as congressional Republicans this week were threatening to cut off Ukraine aid once and for all, former president Donald Trump floated the idea that he would encourage Putin to attack NATO countries that didn’t pay enough; Tucker […]Read More

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) announced Friday that he will not run for president after months of flirting with a campaign that could have complicated the 2024 race for the White House. Manchin said during a speech in West Virginia he “will not be involved in a presidential run” as he continues to focus on […]Read More

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) announced Friday that he will not run for president after months of flirting with a campaign that could have complicated the 2024 race for the White House. Manchin said during a speech in West Virginia he “will not be involved in a presidential run” as he continues to focus on […]Read More

It is immediately obvious why the White House pushed back as hard as it did on a draft of a report from special counsel Robert Hur summarizing his investigation into President Biden’s possession of classified materials. Hur’s report, both in draft and in its final release, suggested that Biden suffered from significant memory issues, a […]Read More

It is immediately obvious why the White House pushed back as hard as it did on a draft of a report from special counsel Robert Hur summarizing his investigation into President Biden’s possession of classified materials. Hur’s report, both in draft and in its final release, suggested that Biden suffered from significant memory issues, a […]Read More

President Biden had been in office for less than a week before he first addressed Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in a penal colony on Friday. A reporter from Reuters asked whether the new president would approve sanctions against Russia following Navalny’s August 2020 poisoning, apparently at the hands of Russian security […]Read More

President Biden had been in office for less than a week before he first addressed Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in a penal colony on Friday. A reporter from Reuters asked whether the new president would approve sanctions against Russia following Navalny’s August 2020 poisoning, apparently at the hands of Russian security […]Read More

Late Thursday afternoon, the Republican effort to impeach President Biden received an unexpected, wobbling blow. An FBI informant whose allegation that Biden and his son Hunter had received multimillion-dollar bribes from a foreign businessman was indicted on charges that he fabricated the story. The idea that the Bidens received these bribes persisted on the right […]Read More

Late Thursday afternoon, the Republican effort to impeach President Biden received an unexpected, wobbling blow. An FBI informant whose allegation that Biden and his son Hunter had received multimillion-dollar bribes from a foreign businessman was indicted on charges that he fabricated the story. The idea that the Bidens received these bribes persisted on the right […]Read More

DALLAS — Nikki Haley’s rally had all the trappings of a competitive campaign: She spoke under a giant shining disco ball to more than a thousand enthusiastic supporters waving “Nikki Haley for President” and “Women for Nikki” signs. Fresh off a fundraising spree in Texas, a delegate-rich Super Tuesday state deep in the primary calendar, […]Read More