Niall Ferguson

Mr. Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and the author of, among other books, Kissinger: 1923–1968: The Idealist. He is a Bloomberg opinion columnist. Read More

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Lawmakers’ plan to ban the social media app could be fast-tracked by Congress by attaching it to larger security bills and spending packages. Homeland Security's Alejandro Mayorkas faced an icy ... Read More

The NPR Politics Podcast

Every weekday, NPR's best political reporters are there to explain the big news coming out of Washington ... records in order to conceal damaging information to influence the 2016 presidential ... Read More

Fox News Politics: Day of double denials

"They argue this prosecution violates the First Amendment’s protections of political speech and activity, freedom of association, and the right to petition Congress as-applied to their alleged ... Read More

Americans are divided on politics. These lawmakers want to do something about it.

Instead, he was told that fights began breaking out in the YMCA over politics. Shirts, hats or even the cable news channel someone ... it,” Kilmer told USA TODAY. Kilmer came together with ... Read More

Fareed Zakaria decries the "anti-Americanism" in America's politics today

Zakaria is an optimist, and he'd like to think of himself as non-partisan, at a time when it's hard for a news anchor to go ... In terms of his politics, Zakaria said, "I find that on most issues ... Read More

Tech leaders have all the skills for politics. Still, most don't want to run.

Michael Bloomberg was a popular New York City mayor, but the founder of a financial news and ... and political engagement. Palmer, who has no political experience, told USA TODAY he hoped to ... Read More

Fox News Politics: Spending spree

The House of Representatives narrowly passed a $1.2 trillion federal spending package along bipartisan lines on Friday, taking a step closer to averting a partial government shutdown at midnight ... Read More

Politics simply not funny

It is often actually quite stressful. Every time the news turns to politics at my house, there are always a lot of deep depressing sighs, repeated phrases such as, “Oh my God!’ and ... Read More

Trump is suing ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for defamation. Here's what to know about his claim.

Former President Donald Trump on Monday sued ABC, ABC News and host George Stephanopoulos ... there's an especially high bar for protecting political speech," said Stephen Solomon, founding ... Read More

TechCrunch Minute: You’re likely seeing less news and politics on Instagram. Here’s why

As the election cycle heats up, Instagram and Threads will be cooling down the amount of political content entering ... you’ll have to give today’s episode a look. Read More

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