Democrats’ crisis of the future: The biggest states that back them are shrinking
California, Illinois and New York are shrinking. As the U.S. population shifts to the South, political power is seeping from ...
Republicans are exploiting the diploma divide they helped to create
The widening gap between Americans with and without college education is a result of the Republican-led attack on the ...
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Does Fact-Checking Work? Here’s What the Science Says
Communication and misinformation researchers reveal the value of fact-checking, where perceived biases come from and what ...
Many Democrats don’t think they’ll see a woman become president, AP-NORC poll finds
An increasing number of Democrats are questioning whether their party’s commitment to diverse candidates, especially women, ...
Once an interloper, Trump returns to White House more powerful than before
Trump faces fewer guardrails as he pursues a norm-shattering agenda that is already upending Washington and unsettling the ...
"Rigging the system": Pam Bondi consistently sided with corporations that gave money to Republicans
Bondi’s career as Florida attorney general, while defended by Republicans, was marred by repeatedly dropping lawsuits against ...
Opinion
Congress sloughs off duties amid rise of presidential power
In the 1850s, as disunion loomed and tempers frayed, so many members of Congress carried weapons into the legislature that a senator said, “The only persons who don’t have a ...
Trump nominees Burgum, Bessent, Zeldin face confirmation hearings as witnesses support Bondi
President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees Scott Bessent, Doug Burgum, Lee Zeldin and Scott Turner will sit for Senate ...
Cuomo poised to shake up NYC mayor’s race: ‘The 900-pound gorilla in this room’
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is poised to jump into the New York City mayoral race as soon as next month, ...
Inside the relationship of JD Vance and Usha Chilukuri Vance, the incoming vice president and second lady
JD Vance wrote about meeting his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, as a Yale Law School student in "Hillbilly Elegy." ...