Vlad is the villain President Trump’s call for Ukraine to replace its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is a blunder of huge proportions (“Zel: Don on ‘wrong side’ in Vlad deal,”...
There aren’t a lot of distinguished biographies of famous historians. The reading public is largely interested in their works, rather than their personal lives, and while some achieved a certain fame or honor in their time — Thomas Babington Macaulay, Marc Bloch, A.J.P. Taylor, Charles A. Beard, a handful of others — details of scholarly […]
Even before his nomination to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush in 2005, Justice Samuel Alito was dogged by the nickname “Scalito.” The lazy conflation of Alito with Justice Antonin Scalia, both conservative jurists of Italian-American heritage, was irresistible to journalists who saw the court as a battleground for politics by other means, […]
The newly appointed White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, says she's a lawyer, and an ethics watchdog is asking the State Bar of California to verify that.
U.S. President Donald Trump said that "massive" oil, gas and mineral exploration is set to begin in "our new and beautiful Greenland," though it wasn't clear what developments he was referring to on an island where resource extraction has stymied companies for decades.
Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris laid out her political vision in Seoul Wednesday -- a vision that, rather than being a scathing assault on the Trump administration, was aligned in some ways with the MAGA playbook.
More than a year after National Guard members began patrolling the streets of the nation's capital, a federal appeals court on Wednesday opened a hearing by asking the government if there were any limits on a president's authority to call up the guard in D.C.
