Michael Berman, a political strategist who came to Washington as a top aide to Vice President Walter Mondale and built a career as an eclectic insider who helped organize Democratic conventions, lobbied lawmakers and wrote a heartfelt book about his struggles with obesity, died Jan. 12 at a Washington hospital. He was 84. Mr. Berman […]Read More

Donald Trump urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to ensure his name can appear on election ballots nationwide, warning of “chaos and bedlam” if the justices do not reverse Colorado’s top court, which disqualified the former president because of his actions on and leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. Trump’s attorney asked the justices to […]Read More

Hunter Biden will sit for a deposition before the House Oversight and Judiciary committees on Feb. 28, committee chairmen James Comer (R-Ky.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced on Thursday, ending weeks of contentious back and forth between the president’s son’s legal team and House Republicans. “His deposition will come after several interviews with Biden family […]Read More

Congress on Thursday passed legislation to keep the federal government open into March, approving the third stopgap spending bill in four months as lawmakers struggle to agree on long-term government funding plans. The bill extends deadlines to March 1 and March 8. Money for roughly 20 percent of the government — including the Transportation Department, […]Read More

Onstage at a New Hampshire campaign event on Wednesday night, former president Donald Trump bragged about many things: his immigration policies, his passage of a tax cut, the unemployment rates during his administration. He also bragged about how he recently correctly identified a whale on a cognitive test. “I think it was 30, 35 questions,” […]Read More

Stopping New Hampshire voters on the sidewalk, refilling their coffee mugs at diners and repeating his stump speech, long-shot presidential candidate Dean Phillips — the real one — explains why he thinks Democrats shouldn’t renominate President Biden: The leader of his party has lost the confidence of a majority of the electorate. A just-released artificial […]Read More

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