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Former police commissioner William Bratton calls the New York governor’s recent reforms “the equivalent of putting a Band-Aid on a hemorrhage.”...
If the Supreme Court dodges the question of Trump’s eligibility, his victory could lead to another crisis on January 6. Near the end of the Supreme...
His special-election victory offers his party a road map for rebutting Republicans on immigration this fall. Tom Suozzi’s victory in yesterday’s...
Why next week’s special election for George Santos’s old seat could give Democrats hope for November In late 2021, Tom Suozzi made an announcement...
Her future now depends on Trump’s—and whether he rewards her loyalty with the prize she so clearly wants. Elise Stefanik and I had been speaking...
To save the president from a humiliating defeat in New Hampshire, a small group of supporters is running an unprecedented write-in campaign on his...
After a contentious and historically unproductive year, GOP lawmakers are racing for the exits. House Republicans didn’t exactly have a banner year...
Shame may have left politics in the Trump era, but consequences haven’t. On September 22, when federal prosecutors accused Senator Robert Menendez...
The fourth Republican presidential debate featured lots of attacks on Haley—not Donald Trump. Anyone watching the fourth Republican primary debate...
How Biden’s support for Israel is straining his coalition Throughout the summer, the Progressive Change Institute, a prominent grassroots...
The Republican representative’s brief congressional career was finished by a decisive vote to expel him. He was a performer until the end. So long,...
Speaker Mike Johnson averted a government shutdown by relying on the strategy that doomed his predecessor: a bailout from Democrats. How much longer...
Yes, Obama won reelection despite Biden-esque polling numbers. But the comparison goes only so far. It’s a year before the presidential election,...
At the GOP debate, Trump’s challengers once again declined their opportunity to take on the absent frontrunner. “We’ve become a party of...
If Governor Andy Beshear can stave off his Republican challenger, Democrats will retain the most powerful job in one of the nation’s reddest states....
Newly enacted in Pennsylvania by a Democratic governor, automatic voter registration might boost Trump in 2024. When Governor Josh Shapiro of...
Mike Johnson’s win was as sudden as it was improbable. When Representative Mike Johnson arrived in Congress in 2017, he received an important piece...
The Ohio representative failed to win the speakership in the first vote on the House floor. Now he faces the same amount of Republican opposition that...
The unresolved speaker fight could determine whether the government stays open—and the future of U.S. support for Israel and Ukraine. When...
“They just took out our best player.” Few Americans are shedding tears for Kevin McCarthy. The former House speaker engendered little public...
A revolt by right-wing Republicans toppled the leader of the House in an unprecedented vote. Kevin McCarthy began his 269th day as House speaker by...
The speaker made a last-minute reversal to avert a government shutdown. It could cost him his job. For weeks, Speaker Kevin McCarthy seemed to face an...
Trump and his allies have promised a war on the civil service. A coalition of former bureaucrats is gearing up. Of the many targets Donald Trump has...
As a shutdown looms, the House GOP is bickering over legislation that doesn’t even matter. Yesterday was not a good day for House Republicans or for...
The speaker’s abrupt impeachment probe against Biden is the latest sign that he’s still fighting for his job. As Kevin McCarthy made his televised...