Alaskans want to join the likes of Aspen, Colo., and dozens of other jurisdictions that have tried ranked-choice only to regret it and repeal it later.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with China’s President Xi Jinping and other Beijing officials as differences between the two nations grow on a number of issues. Blinken said he outlined the U.S. worries with China, mentioning Beijing's backing of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has surpassed the two-year mark, and Taiwan. “Russia would struggle...
NLRB Chair Lauren McFerran would do well to contemplate whether the board’s reputation as an impartial adjudicator is worth compromising on behalf of union special interests.
It is increasingly possible that former President Trump may dodge a federal trial before Nov. 5 on charges of election interference, a goal of his defense and a potential blow to special counsel Jack Smith’s case charging Trump with illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election loss. The government’s case originally was scheduled to go...
When Melania Trump cast her ballot last month in the Florida primary alongside her husband, former President Trump, she was asked if she would return to the campaign trail this year. “Stay tuned,” the former first lady replied with a smile. But apart from a fundraiser earlier this month for Log Cabin Republicans at her...
Democrats are bracing for a backlash from young voters over the potential ban of TikTok on U.S. phones, something made more likely by the Chinese government’s opposition to ByteDance selling off one of the most sophisticated algorithms in the world. It’s a problem for President Biden, who won 60 percent of voters 18 to 29...
Rhetoric is heating up on competing visions for taxes from Democrats and Republicans ahead of the 2024 election, which will determine whether the individual provisions in the 2017 Trump tax cuts are extended, modified or thrown into the legislative dust bin. President Biden, lawmakers on key tax writing committees, and tax advocates of various ideological...
The Supreme Court justice who authored the Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade jumped headlong Wednesday into the debate about whether a fetus is entitled to the same rights as a person. Abortion-rights advocates were concerned ahead of arguments that the case about whether Idaho's abortion ban violated a federal emergency care law might be...
The pro-Palestinian protesters making themselves heard at universities across the country see their demonstrations as part of a tradition of anti-war activism on campus. Hundreds of students have been arrested after setting up encampments on school grounds and demanding their institutions call for a cease-fire in Gaza and divest their endowments away from companies...
Rapid escalations in Myanmar’s civil war are creating a rare opening for potential cooperation between the U.S. and China, with the chaos and violence in Southeast Asia posing a threat to both countries' interests overseas. While Washington and Beijing are making an effort to improve relations with each other, any common ground on Myanmar must...
Several K Street lobbying shops posted record revenues last quarter as Congress moved massive spending bills, the Biden administration ramped up its regulatory agenda and clients set their sights on post-election policy priorities. Federal lobbyists raked in $4.3 billion last year, according to the money in politics research nonprofit OpenSecrets, even as it looked like...
In a speech Thursday, Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski said Russian President Vladimir Putin should fear a war with NATO as it would inevitably end in Russia’s defeat. “It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around,” Sikorski said in a translated speech to the Sejm,...
