Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico endorsed Graham Platner on Tuesday in Maine's Democratic Senate primary -- the latest sign of a growing push inside the party against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's preferred candidate, Gov. Janet Mills.
The top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee is pinning the blame on Republicans for flight delays, hourslong jams at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints and the overall chaos at major airports across the U.S. -- while her party blocks Department of Homeland Security funding.
The CEO of a major Saudi oil exporter said Tuesday the conflict in Iran could have "catastrophic consequences" for energy markets, as President Trump and Tehran officials engaged in a war of words over the Strait of Hormuz choke point.
After former President Joseph R. Biden's political collapse 20 months ago -- and the demoralizing losses that followed, including to a 79-year-old President Trump -- the Democratic Party is wrestling with thorny generational questions this campaign season.
Any honest accounting of the Trump presidency from a conservative perspective will necessarily be mixed and a study in paradox. One of the greatest paradoxes of the current administration is that, in its rush to enact President Donald Trump’s ambitious agenda as quickly as possible, it risks derailing it. Two examples come to mind. The […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) took to social media this week to ridicule, mock, and criticize the recent surge in gas prices in the United States and to connect them to President Donald Trump. His social media accounts have blasted the president over the country’s soaring fuel costs, blaming the military conflict in Iran for the […]
The March 4 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing laid bare a simple truth: When states ditch independent financial oversight, taxpayers get robbed blind. Fraud is the invisible tax worsening the affordability crisis, hitting our groceries, mortgages, and our children’s future. Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Attorney General Keith Ellison perhaps started to realize […]
The popular image of a world war is sudden catastrophe, mass mobilization, and unmistakable collapse. That is not what we see today. However, the world is in a great power competition, a distributed struggle for influence, security, and control of critical resources. World War III is not looming. It is underway right now. It is […]
The U.S. and Israeli offensive against the Islamic Republic of Iran continues unabated. So far, however, Iran’s regime is holding on — so much for the rapid internal collapse that many predicted. “I never know what exactly people mean by internal collapse,” says Arash Azizi, a contributing writer at the Atlantic and expert on Iranian politics. “Does one think the […]
As conflict intensifies across the Middle East and pressure mounts on Iran’s military and political leadership, a long-shadowed figure inside the Islamic Republic has stepped fully into power. Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has been chosen as the country’s new supreme leader, inheriting authority at one of the most dangerous moments in the regime’s history. Yet […]
This past week, President Donald Trump accomplished what seven presidents before him never could by cutting the head off the snake of the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, the Islamic Republic of Iran. For 47 years, this once-prosperous nation was turned into a prison of oppression, censorship, and violence by radical Shia […]
