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

A Maine judge on Wednesday put off deciding whether Donald Trump’s name can appear on that state’s primary ballot, saying the Supreme Court needs to rule on the issue first in a similar case out of Colorado. The ruling sent the case back to Maine’s secretary of state and put it on hold. A nationwide […]Read More

The Iowa caucuses are a weird element of our politics. It’s not voting, really, but a sort of streamlined debate club. It’s not particularly representative, given the state’s demography and geography. And it’s not predictive for the nomination, particularly in recent years. At the same time, it’s important to offer some measure of candidates’ campaigns […]Read More

A divided Supreme Court debated whether and how to curtail the power of federal agencies Wednesday, with liberals urging the court to defer to the judgment of government experts, and conservatives saying judges should not systematically favor government regulators over private companies, industry or individuals in litigation. After more than three hours of argument, it […]Read More

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: One of Donald Trump’s chief political foes is the non-White offspring of at least one immigrant parent. So he baselessly suggests they are ineligible to serve as president and proceeds to make their name sound more exotic. It happened with Barack Obama and then Kamala D. Harris. […]Read More

Since the Iowa caucuses ended Monday night, there’s been a lot of energy spent on interpreting the results in a way that best reflect the interpreters’ desires. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took to the stage that evening to crow about having “punched his ticket” out of Iowa — meaning that his distant second-place finish wasn’t […]Read More