A THROUGH LINE IN THESE CONVERSATIONS is that building power also means undertaking fights now, not just after a candidate ...

Last night, I watched Donald Trump’s one-hour-and-forty-five-minute speech to the Republican midterm convention. I watched it ...

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley suggests a future lane for the GOP that is drastically different from other Republican presidential contenders.

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Chris Gober, who helped draw Texas’s gerrymandered maps, is now running to represent one of those districts. His AI and defense industry ties could pose problems.

Wages now constitute the lowest share of the nation’s income since the government began measuring them in 1947.

A piece of Anthropic’s surveillance architecture was revealed in a podcast interview from last year between Anthropic Global Security Operations Center Manager Keon Ellison, Security Operations ...

The tariff-free importation of 300,000 metric tons of potentially substandard beef crashed cattle markets. Trump’s makeup plans to placate ranchers are lacking in substance.

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Meanwhile, one of the genuine vulnerabilities that did need attention—international money laundering by terrorists—was remedied by the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020. But the same politicians who ...

It looks like the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, are unsympathetic to Trump’s schemes to steal the election.

Former federal judge Nancy Gertner speaks during a news conference regarding provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, June 5, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington. Credit: Rod Lamkey Jr./AP Photo.