Donald Trump suggested without evidence Wednesday that Iran might have been involved in two recent attempted assassinations against him, as he called for threatening to blow the country to “smithereens” if it harmed a presidential candidate. During campaign remarks in North Carolina, Trump said the two attempted assassinations “may or may not involve, but possibly […]Read More

A few months ago, the 2024 presidential election was on course to be an inverse popularity contest. Polls consistently showed that both President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump were unpopular and, often, that voters wished neither candidate would actually be on the ballot. A Pew Research Center analysis found that a quarter of […]Read More

Republicans in 2022 suffered a second straight disappointing election — and a second straight drubbing in mail and absentee voting. So some of their leaders began to push harder for the party to embrace these methods. Then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) compared the GOP’s pre-Election Day vote deficit to “starting a race where you’re 30 […]Read More

The same day that the Supreme Court overturned federal protections for legal abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) signed a proclamation banning the procedure in his state. “We are issuing this proclamation to restore our state authority to regulate abortion and protect life,” Parson said. He went on […]Read More

Gov. Tim Walz will campaign in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, attending the University of Michigan vs. University of Minnesota football game. The vice presidential nominee and former Minnesota high school football coach will meet with students during the trip to speak about the importance of registering to vote and the power of them participating, according […]Read More

Donald Trump has spent virtually all of his nine years in politics stoking cultural resentment by using hyperbolic and false claims about scourges of immigrants and the crimes they commit. He has gradually worked his way up to the idea that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country — an echo of historical fascism […]Read More

Donald Trump portrays himself as a “protector” of women, who as president will safeguard them from inflation, undocumented immigrants, crime and foreign threats he often speaks about in exaggerated terms. Women will “no longer be thinking about abortion,” since states now make their laws unilaterally, he declares, nodding to the end of Roe v. Wade […]Read More

NEW YORK — Russia is making plans to attack Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned fellow world leaders at the United Nations on Wednesday, issuing a stark call for global leadership to help him attain peace as his country stares down a cold, dark winter with most of its energy infrastructure destroyed. […]Read More

Let’s begin with an electoral factoid: 16 out of every 1,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania have a last name that ends in -ski or -sky. This is not because the state is awash with newly arrived immigrants from Poland and Eastern Europe but because it used to be. A century ago, immigration from Poland peaked, […]Read More