An increasing number of oil tankers are headed through the embattled Strait of Hormuz and gasoline prices will drop once the ships reach Asia, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett predicted Sunday.
This has not gone the way Mark Tushnet thought. Ten years ago, when Tushnet, then a professor at Harvard Law School, sketched out a vision of a resurgent left-wing jurisprudence in a post on the legal affairs blog Balkinization, he was imagining a much different future. A better, brighter one. Hillary Clinton was on her […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday said there has “clearly” been an effort to “rewrite” the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. “Look, I'm very confident that of the judgment of history in the years ahead about our role, about all the Republicans and Democrats who returned that day after Capitol Police...
Republicans on Capitol Hill are battling a bad case of déjà vu, as intraparty disputes over an immigration enforcement funding package and an extension of the government’s warrantless spying powers have left lawmakers no closer to a resolution on the two matters than they were a month ago. Senate Republicans departed Washington last week without...
President Trump’s decision to endorse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over Sen. John Cornyn, who was widely seen as the stronger general election pick, is roiling the Lone State State’s bitter primary battle days one week before the run-off election. The call was a remarkable break by Trump from the Senate GOP establishment that caught...
Black Democrats on Capitol Hill are amplifying their calls for Black athletes to boycott state universities in the South, saying those schools have done nothing to fight the Republican gerrymandering that’s led to the elimination of minority districts. Led by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the lawmakers are joining the NAACP and other minority advocacy...
Voters in Alabama are heading to the polls Tuesday to decide who will succeed Gov. Kay Ivey (R) this November. Former Sen. Doug Jones, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is making a longshot bid in the ruby red state. He faces five primary opponents. On the other side of the aisle, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) is...
A number of candidates in Alabama are jockeying to replace gubernatorial candidate and outgoing Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) on November's ballot in primary elections Tuesday. Republican Rep. Barry More leads the pack in a crowded GOP primary, which includes state Attorney General Steve Marshall and newcomer Jared Hudson, among others. Meanwhile, Kyle Sweetser, a former...
Voters in the Peach State are heading to the polls Tuesday to decide which candidates will compete to replace Republican Gov. Brian Kemp (Ga.) this fall. The GOP primary has turned ugly, with outsized spending from the contenders. Lt. Gov Burt Jones, who is endorsed by President Trump, is in a close contest against billionaire...
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is running for a second term as governor in Tuesday's primary elections. The Democrat is facing off against nine challengers in her bid to secure the party's nod for the November general election. On the other side of the aisle, a crowded field of Republicans is duking it out. Christine Drazan,...
There is a quiet internal negotiation over what the next version of the progressive movement looks like, who defines it, how broad it gets, and whether its future looks more like 2016, or 2020.
Video footage of a disturbing incident has gone viral on social media. It shows a group of teenagers trashing a Chipotle restaurant, hurling chairs at each other, and causing chaos as frightened customers hide in the corner. It’s all the more disturbing for me because it took place in my own neighborhood. If this was a one-off incident, perhaps members of the community...
President Trump on Tuesday said later in the day he plans to reveal which Republican candidate he'll endorse in the Texas Senate primary between Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton. The two GOP candidates will meet in a runoff next Tuesday, with the winner facing off against state Rep. James Talarico (D). Elsewhere,...
Now that Roger Stone, the convicted and pardoned political operative and Trump ally, has reemerged under the president’s second term, a former Stone employee is stepping forward to accuse Stone of threatening political retribution and possibly violence.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he’s “not a big fan” of the Trump administration’s decision to set up a $1.8 billion legal compensation fund for MAGA allies who were targeted by the Biden-era Department of Justice, questioning the “purpose” of the fund. "Not a big fan. I'm not exactly sure how they would...
The State Department “strongly” urged U.S. citizens on Tuesday against traveling to several nations impacted by a growing Ebola outbreak. The department advised Americans not to visit Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan and Uganda “for any reason.” Additionally, the department recommended that people “reconsider travel” to Rwanda. The Centers for Disease Control...
