[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Join us today at 9 a.m. ET at TheHill.com as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] President Trump has never been this unpopular. And it’s not even close. His two lowest points from his first term...
A senior Trump administration official said Thursday that “for War Powers Resolution purposes,” the military operation against Tehran was already “terminated" following the ceasefire deal reached between the U.S. and Iran. Friday marks 60 days since the administration formally notified Congress, on May 2, of the conflict. In a statement to NewsNation, The Hill's sister network,...
President Trump is hosting a UFC event on the White House South Lawn on Flag Day, which has sparked outrage among many Americans who believe it is inappropriate to have a violent event on the anniversary of the U.S. flag's adoption.
In today’s issue: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is facing the fury of President Trump and his MAHA allies after the president blamed him for having to withdraw his controversial surgeon general nominee, Casey Means. Cassidy was already in the fight for his political life, facing two prominent primary challengers on his right. He has been...
A group of Senate Democrats are questioning Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) recruiting and broader political strategy heading into the 2026 midterm election after his prize recruit in Maine, Gov. Janet Mills (D), announced Thursday she would drop her bid to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R). Several Democratic senators who spoke to The Hill...
A Trump-aligned lawfare group is demanding Fairfax City Public Schools in Virginia rescind policy concealing students' gender identity changes from parents at school, or they will sue.
A network of about 600 groups, including communist organizations and Democratic Party committees, is mobilizing roughly 3,000 pro-socialist May Day events.
Eight years after the publication of 1984’s Bright Lights, Big City, that riotous and audacious first novel about a twenty-something man crashing and burning in the glittering streets and shadier corners of Manhattan, Jay McInerney broadened his scope and produced a multistranded, multivoiced work. Published in 1992, Brightness Falls documented the charmed lives of New […]
When the Chinese Communist Party’s English-language flagship, Global Times, lectures American readers about the “high energy consumption” of U.S. data centers, it isn’t because Beijing has developed a soft spot for our electric bills. It’s because every server farm we don’t build in Texas or Virginia is one China gets to build first. That line […]
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s attempt to certify the results of her redistricting constitutional amendment referendum, a procedural step Spanberger had scheduled for today. Now the court has more time to decide whether the governor violated the commonwealth’s Constitution in her mad dash to alter it. The arguments in Virginia’s […]
Inland Ale Works is a great brewery in Cheney, Washington. Established in a remodeled auto shop, the whole place is decorated with photos of old Spokane, Washington, breweries and horse-drawn wagons loaded with beer barrels. There are ads for Rainier, National Bohemian, and Golden Age beers. I was there on Saturday to talk to my […]
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
