When it comes to government planes and political trips, who pays for a president’s campaign travel?

It’s no simple matter to move the commander in chief from point A to B, and it’s even more complicated when the president is seeking a second term. President Joe Biden recently ... Read More

Hillary Clinton Shares Donald Trump Warning

Hillary Clinton has issued a warning about how she believes the environment will be impacted if Donald Trump is successful in his presidential bid this year. Read More

Presidents assemble: Obama can reach parts of Democratic base Biden can’t

Biden’s charismatic former boss and rival appeared in a show of unity alongside Bill Clinton, who despite a problematic legacy still has a campaign role to play too ... Read More

Why No Labels Is the Fyre Festival of Politics

Politics / The self-described centrist alternative to the two major parties failed spectacularly this year—but such a lavishly funded shakedown operation may not be dead for good. Chris Lehmann Woe is ... Read More

National Politics

Local elected officials and advocacy groups are buoyed by signals that President Joe Biden will sign a declaration expanding the 346,177-acre San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by one-third ... Read More

White House on Klain’s critique: We’re doing what he said!

The Biden White House, Klain included, heard these warnings, too, in the run-up to the 2022 midterms. And then Democrats maintained control of the Senate while barely losing the House largely by ... Read More

Trump goes after the judge and prosecutors in his hush money case in last rally before trial begins

Donald Trump’s rally in northeast Pennsylvania, an area President Joe Biden considers home turf, will be the Republican’s last one before his criminal hush money trial begins Monday ... Read More

Inside the Week That Shook Columbia University

In a Washington war room, Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, decided to call police officers to arrest protesting students. The backlash now threatens her leadership. Read More

20 reasons why Donald Trump has been good for America: No, seriously

Here are 20 examples of how Trump may have benefited America, or at least where Trumpian maleficence, malfeasance and malpractice have alerted us anew or reawakened us to ideas and practices we once ... Read More

Trump rants about presidential immunity as criminal trial opening statements loom: Live

Donald Trump is back in New York Criminal Court for the fourth day of jury selection as well as a hearing in his hush money trial.So far, the 12 jurors, and one alternate, who will be hearing evidence ... Read More

McConnell’s ‘force of will’ shaped the federal judiciary

The most glowing admirers and fiercest detractors of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) agree on one thing — his ability to move the federal judiciary in a more conservative ... Read More

Playbook: How the war in Gaza has reshaped politics

Six months ago today, 3,000 Hamas militants launched a surprise attack during Simchat Torah, a Jewish Holiday, killing 1,200 people, taking more than 250 hostages and starting a war during which ... Read More