In 1988, the power brokers of the Democratic Party watched a Chicago civil rights leader, a maverick with a movement he called a “Rainbow Coalition,” start to threaten the presidential candidacy of Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. They’d expected him to do well with Black voters, but not to win easily the state of Michigan or make major...Read more

President Donald Trump ran on a platform that included downsizing the bloated federal administrative state. He has more than delivered.

In January 2025, Trump promised “to promote prudent financial management and alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens.” He vowed that “for each new regulation issued, at least 10 prior regulations be ...Read more

There is no question that Trump is a megalomaniac. Look at the definition: "An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions." Whether it's relatively harmless actions like redecorating the White House with gold everywhere or attaching his name to every building and project he's involved in, or his more problematic king-like ...Read more

Major changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, courtesy of President Donald Trump and his GOP-controlled Congress, have arrived across the nation. The reforms to the food assistance program for the needy come via the 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

The law mandates that SNAP recipients aged 18 to 64, and parents who don�...Read more

The Trump administration has taken a wrecking ball to the Department of Justice, dismantling the traditional barrier between prosecutorial independence and partisan politics.

Career prosecutors have retired or resigned rather than compromise their integrity. Judges have complained about DOJ lawyers’ shoddy work, accused them of defying court ...Read more

Voting is fundamental to democracy, but here in the U.S. people don’t vote very much. In December, Miami held a runoff election for mayor, and all of 37,000 voters turned out. This was 2,000 fewer people than voted in comparable off-cycle elections in Apizaco, a small city in the mountains of central Mexico. It was no blip: The median turnout ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tom Steyer must solve this dilemma: How does he convince financially struggling Californians they can trust a billionaire to be their governor?

Because, after all, the former hedge fund titan doesn’t exactly share their daily ordeal of scraping up enough money to pay for rent, groceries and gas in the run-down car.

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MUNICH — Last year, at the Munich Security Conference, where top U.S. and European leaders gather each year, Vice President JD Vance gave a shocking speech that nearly broke the NATO alliance of democracies that had kept the peace in Europe for 80 years.

Vance claimed the threat to Europe was “not Russia, not China,” but rather came “...Read more

After some 80 years, Gallup’s presidential approval ratings are riding off into the sunset, and the public opinion polling agency is making a huge mistake.

The company confirmed to The Hill that starting this year it would stop publishing approval and favorability ratings of individual political figures, saying in a statement it “reflects ...Read more

The horrifying episode in which Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted millions of sexualized images of real people, including women and children, has a clear lesson: It should be illegal to use anyone’s photograph to create a fake image intended to depict that person.

Last summer, Congress passed the Take It Down Act, which ...Read more

The anti-science, anti-medicine mindset of the nutso Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is killing people by quashing life-saving vaccines.

There is no other explanation why Moderna’s paperwork to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its new mRNA flu vaccine was rejected, citing supposed faults with the study the ...Read more

History was being made in Washington. And once again, you had the perfect seat.

You had the same vantage point savvy news photographers all chose on Wednesday. It was the same spot news camera pros also chose when they snapped another nearly identical historic news photo in the last century: seven guys – top execs of America’s tobacco ...Read more

A growing number of Democratic lawmakers – including several in Massachusetts – are following the Nancy Pelosi school of get-rich-quick schemes, a sure-fire way of seeing your family wealth skyrocket while serving in Congress.

Ayanna Pressley, Elizabeth Warren, Katherine Clark, Ilhan Omar have all become richer – some astonishingly so –...Read more

One month has passed since Iran’s bloody crackdown, and Iranians — inside the country and abroad — have been left among the most defenseless people facing a ruling power, watched over by a world that largely remained a spectator.

Since the 1979 revolution, Iranians have endured waves of brutal repression: the mass political executions of ...Read more

U.S. consumers received good news Friday when the Department of Labor reported that inflation slowed in January. Continued progress on prices will benefit American families and help the GOP blunt Democratic attacks on “affordability.”

Prices rose by 2.4 percent last month when compared with the first month of 2025. That’s an improvement ...Read more

At a House Judiciary hearing on Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi was holding a document labeled "Jayapal Pramila Search History" that included a list of files from the unredacted Epstein archive accessible to lawmakers such as Rep. Pramila Jayapal. D-Wash.

That means over the course of a year Bondi's Department of Justice has made time to ...Read more

A few hours after White House border czar Tom Homan announced the end of the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, a steady stream of mourners gathered on the city’s south side. Their destination was the community-built memorial to Renée Nicole Good, located at the spot where her SUV came to a stop after she was shot in the head by an ...Read more

The federal government recently released new dietary guidelines aimed at “ending the war on protein” and steering Americans toward “real foods” — those with few ingredients and no additives. Seafood plays a starring role. But the fish that health advocates envision appearing on our plates probably won’t be caught in the crystal blue ...Read more

Every February, Black History Month invites Americans to honor the giants of the civil rights movement. We commemorate them in speeches and street names, reassuring ourselves that their struggles belong safely to the past. But history tells a less comforting story.

We tend to celebrate Black moral courage only after it has been stripped of ...Read more

Whatever their views on immigration enforcement, Minnesotans should welcome the announcement by border czar Tom Homan on Feb. 12 that Operation Metro Surge soon will end, and that a significant drawdown of the more than 3,000 agents who had been sent to the state under federal orders is underway.

They should also welcome the vow by Gov. Tim ...Read more