Former Trump officials help Biden with Putin summit prep

President Biden assembled a group of outside Russia experts — including former Trump officials — to brief him for his summit with President Vladimir Putin, people familiar with the matter tell ... Read More

‘Part of the club’: Biden relishes revival of alliances that Trump dismissed

The U.S. president’s enthusiasm for his return to the world stage was palpable as he declared, sometimes multiple times a day, that America is back. Read More

Pro-life groups slam Biden for excluding Hyde Amendment from $6T budget proposal

Pro-life groups are slamming President Joe Biden for failing to include the Hyde Amendment in his over $6 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2022. Read More

The Daily 202: Biden takes steps to rein in ‘forever wars’ in Afghanistan and Iraq

with Mariana Alfaro Welcome to The Daily 202 newsletter! Tell your friends to sign up here. On this day in 2010, President Barack Obama used his first Oval Office address to promise BP would pay for ... Read More

Brooks and Capehart on infrastructure talks, VP Harris’s role and Trump’s influence

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including negotiations between President Biden and Republicans ... Read More

The Trailer: "Trump Won": The many ways the GOP is re-writing 2020

Questioning the last election becomes a GOP litmus test, primary day in Virginia and New Jersey, and new polling in New York. Read More

Biden at NATO for bridge building after Trump mocked alliance as ‘obsolete’

It took most of his term for former President Donald Trump to grudgingly acknowledge the most fundamental tenet of the NATO transatlantic bond: An attack on one is ... Read More

What Obama’s second term could teach Biden and the Dems

Which leaves the most important lesson that this year’s filibuster reformers can take from 2013 as they push Biden to take risks: Behavior matters when it comes to cajoling 50 Democratic caucus ... Read More

Election Denial and $16 Spritzers: Welcome to Florida’s Trump Coast

Lured south by sunshine, golf, and money, the former president’s allies and hangers-on have formed an alternate universe that revolves around Mar-a-Lago. Read More

Independent Watchdog Launches Inquiry into Trump-Era Seizure of Lawmakers’ Data

The announcement from the Justice Department’s independent inspector general followed one by Senate Democrats, who announced that they would open their own investigation into the Trump Justice ... Read More

Trump touts record, blasts Dems in return to stage

Former President Trump came out swinging during his return to the stage on Saturday, slamming Democrats while also touting his own record in his speech at North Carolina's GOP state convention. Read More

Biden stays mum on state abortion laws with major test ahead for Roe

As more Republican-led states pass abortion bans with the easing of the Covid-19 pandemic, a heated debate has returned to center stage with abortion rights supporters warning of a looming ... Read More

The Trillion Dollar War: the Economics of Overextension

By the end of the Bush administration, the United States had spent nearly $3 trillion on the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the estimates of Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz. This was ... Read More

Debt? Modern Monetary Theory says government can have it all

The $6 trillion budget President Biden has proposed may strike many Americans as an astronomical amount, but there is a school of thought that supports that spending binge and much more. Read More

Liberals celebrate the demise of the Keystone XL pipeline, but conservatives promise to keep the issue alive

Canadian gas company TC Energy announced Wednesday that it had terminated its Keystone XL pipeline project months after President Biden revoked a key permit on his first day in office because of ... Read More

Inside Biden and Putin’s feud that saw US president brand Vlad a ‘killer’ & say he ‘doesn’t trust’ Russian leader

JOE Biden will hold a frosty meeting with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday after two decades of criticizing the Russian leader and branding him a “killer” he “doesn’t trust.” Biden and Putin are set to ... Read More

POLITICO Playbook: Sanders vs. Sinema: Biden agenda threatened by Democratic infighting

Former President BARACK OBAMA, Speaker NANCY PELOSI and former A.G. ERIC HOLDER will headline a virtual fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee on June 28. It’ll be Obama’s ... Read More

Opinions | Putin has deviled American presidents. Biden can learn from their mistakes.

This week, President Biden will hold his first meeting as president with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He’ll be the fifth American president to try to negotiate with Putin, whose hold on power ... Read More

Trump touts record, blasts Dems in return to stage

Former President Trump came out swinging during his return to the stage on Saturday, slamming Democrats while also touting his own record in his speech at North Carolina's GOP state convention. Read More

Osama Bin Laden's Ghost and the Multi-Trilion-Dollar Cost of Endless War

Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation. Read More

Trump Wishes Biden ‘Good Luck’ At Upcoming Summit With Putin: ‘Don’t Fall Asleep!’

Former President Donald Trump wished his successor President Biden "good luck" ahead of his upcoming one-on-one summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin but also reminded him not to "fall asleep" ... Read More

Biden plans to reverse Trump’s Alaska policy. Here’s why it matters.

Tongass National Forest is a frequent target for political ping-pong between environmental and development interests. Read More

Recovery From Netanyahu Withdrawal Won’t Be Easy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he delivers a speech to supporters following the announcement of exit polls in ... Read More