Nearly 180 congressional Republicans signed on to an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Donald Trump’s legal battle to remain on the primary election ballot in Colorado. The long list of signatories to the brief includes someone who has largely steered clear of the 2024 race and who previously said the […]Read More

Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson come from different generations, different political orbits. McConnell (R-Ky.) is the 81-year-old Senate minority leader whose childhood was defined by battling polio with his mother as his father served in the Army in World War II. His first years as senator came at the peak of the Cold War. Johnson […]Read More

There’s an ongoing debate in political circles about the divide between how Americans view their own economic situation and that of the country overall. Polling has consistently shown robust personal economic confidence when Americans are asked — but ongoing skepticism about the national picture. Such a divergence isn’t unusual, really. For years, Americans have expressed […]Read More

Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson’s decision to run a distinctly anti-Trump Republican presidential campaign translated to just 191 votes in the Iowa caucuses Monday, one of the worst showings ever for a politician of some renown. He dropped out of the race. And then the Democratic National Committee took the opportunity to dance on Hutchinson’s […]Read More

With one answer in a TV interview, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley again ignited a campaign trail debate about racism and its role in America, putting the precarious politics of race front and center as the GOP nominating contests get underway. Just a few weeks after Haley’s comments about whether the Civil War was caused […]Read More

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Nikki Haley, treating the primary as a one-on-one race with Donald Trump, has stepped up her criticism of the former president, lobbing pointed attacks on his age in a one-two punch against him and President Biden, yet still holding back on the full offensive many Trump critics wish she would launch. At […]Read More

President Biden met with congressional leaders Wednesday in an 11th-hour attempt to break a long-running logjam over his funding request for Ukraine, but there was little sign of a breakthrough on Biden’s top foreign policy goal in the hours after the White House meeting. The bipartisan confab, which aides said was designed to focus specifically […]Read More

At 6 feet 6 inches and nearly 300 pounds, the force of Kenneth J. Bonawitz launching himself through the air and slamming his forearms into the throats of two police officers standing below him during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot must have been enormous. One officer suffered back injuries such that he was forced to […]Read More

There’s admittedly not much reason to pay attention to Tucker Carlson these days. You remember Tucker, the guy who used to wear bow ties and then became a prime-time host on Fox News (to Russia’s delight) before losing his job for unclear reasons and being relegated to the social media network for people too right-wing […]Read More