On Tuesday, I voted for the first time. Not for a president, not in a midterm, but in the California special election to counter Texas Republicans’ gerrymandering efforts. What makes this dynamic particularly fascinating is that both parties are betting on the same demographic — Latino voters.

For years, pundits assumed Latinos were a lock ...Read more

The uproar over Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes has sparked yet another round of MAGA civil war talk.

Full disclosure: I previously worked for Carlson at the Daily Caller, so I’ve had a front-row seat for this ongoing battle for a long time now.

In case you missed the latest: Carlson ...Read more

The most telling moment during Wednesday’s arguments before the Supreme Court on President Donald Trump’s tariffs came when Justice Neil Gorsuch walked the attorney representing the administration into a corner.

Under the theory of executive branch power advanced by the White House, couldn’t the president “impose a 50 percent tariff on ...Read more

The White House just announced that AstraZeneca and Pfizer will start charging foreign health systems the same prices for all newly launched treatments as they charge here in America. Bristol-Meyers Squibb and AbbVie have similarly promised to charge the same price in the United Kingdom as in the United States for two soon-to-be-launched ...Read more

Voters in California on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Prop 50, a ballot measure backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that allowed him and fellow Democrats in control of the state legislature in Sacramento to redraw electoral maps to create up to five additional Democratic-leaning congressional seats in direct response to Texas and other states’ own ...Read more

California voters have temporarily suspended their state’s admirable anti-gerrymandering law in order to gerrymander a more Democratic-leaning U.S. House delegation. The Golden State’s passage Tuesday of Proposition 50 is the epitome of anti-reform, a step backward — but a necessary one, thanks to President Donald Trump and his allies in ...Read more

A White House deal with Eli Lilly & Co. and Novo Nordisk to lower the prices of their popular obesity medicines, Zepbound and Wegovy, is a step toward making them more affordable and accessible to Americans — but until we have more details, it’s hard to tell how big a step it really is.

The agreement, announced Thursday by the Trump ...Read more

Pocketbook issues took center stage in Democratic victories in Virginia, New Jersey and New York Tuesday night, as well as in a usually obscure election in Georgia.

Because Georgia is far more of a swing state than the others, the signal is strong: If Democrats want 2026 to be a breakthrough year, they need to stay organized and focus on ...Read more

“There’s nothing more important to the league and its fans than the integrity of the competition.” So says Adam Silver, commissioner of the National Basketball Association.

He was referring to dual indictments unveiled Oct. 23, which alleged that NBA players and coaches had disclosed nonpublic team information to a criminal gambling ring;...Read more

When Nancy Pelosi first ran for Congress, she was one of 14 candidates, the front-runner and a target.

At the time, Pelosi was little known to San Francisco voters. But she was already a fixture in national politics. She was a major Democratic fundraiser who helped lure the party's 1984 national convention to her adopted home town. She served...Read more

Immigration enforcement operations should not be taking place in and around a day care center serving little kids.

That we need even to type that sentence in this 177-year-old newspaper boggles our collective mind. But such is life at present in Chicago, where a spluttering, increasingly dangerous series of battles is being waged on our streets...Read more

By any metric, Tuesday’s elections were a blowout. Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is the new mayor of New York City. The new Democratic governors in Virginia and New Jersey won with double-digit margins. Voter turnout was off the charts.

Democrats’ wins speak to Trump’s unpopularity, the chaos that has accompanied his administration ...Read more

H.L. Mencken wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” Hello, New York City.

On Tuesday, a handful of states held off-year elections, and Democrats enjoyed a good night, comfortably winning governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia. They also prevailed in a ...Read more

“I hope this is going to be enough,” said the coordinator at Silver Lake Community Church food pantry, wiping her forehead as she chopped off bad ends of donated celery. Every Wednesday morning for the past year, I, along with a dozen or so other volunteers, sort and pack donated food for about 150 families.

But a few months ago, the food ...Read more

The election Tuesday of the charismatic socialist Zoran Mamdani as mayor of New York sucked up a lot of media oxygen. Most pundits and editors live there and always exaggerate its importance. But when it comes to political foretelling, New York is merely the capital of New York.

Gotham City is its own peculiar beast with particular problems of ...Read more

The most indelible image from Donald Trump’s whirlwind trip to South Korea emerged when he was gifted a replica of a Silla-era gold crown by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.

If relations between Seoul and the White House weren’t so tense — given Trump’s sweeping tariffs and the detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...Read more

I have been a close observer of American policing for most of my life. During my 30-year career in law enforcement, I served as a patrol officer, detective, trainer, and from 1972 to 1993 the chief of police in Madison, Wisconsin. I’ve seen brutality, courage and redemption in this line of work. But I have never seen a greater police-related ...Read more

President Donald Trump has long acknowledged that he doesn't read books, so perhaps he's never cracked the spine of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." But hasn't he seen one of the several movies? Does he really not know that Gatsby is a tragedy about class, excess and hubris?

It seems not. On Halloween, there was Trump, dressed as ...Read more

New York City just elected a mayor who promises free child care, free buses, city-run grocery stores and a rent freeze on rent-controlled apartments, all paid for by taxing rich people who are beating a hasty retreat from the city.

What could go wrong?

Plenty, of course, but the election of Zohran Mamdani wasn’t about sound strategy, it was ...Read more

Like many progressive Democrats, U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia has accused President Donald Trump and Republicans of posing a threat to the future of American democracy.

It was just 20 months ago that Garcia, during a debate with Chicago Ald. Ray Lopez, who was challenging him during the primary, said, “I believe that most of the threats ...Read more