The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will debate Tuesday whether D.C. jurors are unfairly biased against people charged with committing crimes at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It’s an argument with relevance for former president Donald Trump, who plans to try to get his trial moved out of D.C. where […]Read More

Nevada voters are heading to the polls Tuesday for their state’s first primary in nearly three decades, offering President Biden another chance to pick up delegates after his Saturday win in South Carolina, while an unusual nonbinding Republican contest does not feature GOP front-runner Donald Trump. Biden faces only one long-shot challenger, with Nikki Haley […]Read More

Donald Trump has promised a presidency of “retribution” if he wins another term in office. Many Republicans fear they might face the brunt of it. The former president has threatened to have donors to his Republican opponent Nikki Haley “permanently barred” from his orbit. A top adviser has vowed to destroy the career of Rep. […]Read More

In the 2024 election year, caucuses throughout the country are bringing with them political fanfare and flurries of media attention — and, to the disappointment of many an American history teacher, questions about what exactly a caucus is. While the practice of caucusing — when voters gather at their local voting precinct to listen to […]Read More

GOP front-runner Donald Trump sent mixed signals on Monday over whether Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel should resign, first suggesting in an interview that she knows it’s time to step aside while later calling her a “friend” and saying he would make a decision on her fate after the South Carolina primary on Feb. […]Read More

Donald Trump has promised a presidency of “retribution” if he wins another term in office. Many Republicans fear they might face the brunt of it. The former president has threatened to have donors to his Republican opponent Nikki Haley “permanently barred” from his orbit. A top adviser has vowed to destroy the career of Rep. […]Read More

Fyre Festival was probably always doomed to be a catastrophe. The proposed 2017 concert on a private island in the Bahamas set a new bar for scams primarily because of the massive divergence between what was offered and what was delivered. Concertgoers were promised private flights to luxurious housing and gourmet food; they got commercial […]Read More

Something I’ve posited repeatedly in this space is that Donald Trump’s disappearance from most people’s everyday lives has benefited him. Most independents don’t really know much about his indictments, for instance. People might have forgotten the things they didn’t like about him if they haven’t been tracking conservative media or his rants on Truth Social. […]Read More

The Donald Trump era in American politics has been defined in part by the assumption that something might at some point get in Trump’s way. To date, this hasn’t really happened. Over the course of the 2016 Republican primaries, it was often assumed that Trump would flame out, that one of his controversial comments would […]Read More

In the spring of 2014 and on through the sizzling summer that year, tens of thousands of children crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas without their parents. News organizations blasted images of kids crammed into over-air-conditioned, cage-like U.S. Border Patrol holding pens partitioned by chain-link fencing. The youngsters cocooned themselves in shiny silver mylar blankets […]Read More