Vice President Kamala is leaning into issues that animate crucial planks of the Democratic base -- namely young voters and female voters -- as 2024 jockeying gets underway and Ms. Harris is thrust into the spotlight, given President Biden's advanced age and doubts about his fitness and longevity in office.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has embarked on a high-stakes diplomatic trip to China to try to cool down escalating tensions between the two powers that have set many around the world on edge.

Kathleen Evenhouse took a break from her work in the corner of a small-town Iowa coffee shop to slam the federal criminal indictment of Donald Trump as patently political, the work of a U.S. Justice Department she says is awash in hypocrisy.

A pair of Democratic Senators penned a letter to Amazon executives Friday, concerned that the platform’s new healthcare service is putting user’s private data at risk. “Amazon Clinic customers deserve to fully understand why Amazon is collecting their health care data and what the company is doing with it,” Sens. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Elizabeth...

A new national survey found that Americans’ confidence in science has fallen as the political divides brought on by the COVID pandemic continue. Thirty-nine percent of Americans said they have a “great deal” of confidence in science, down from 48 percent in 2018 and 2021, according to the General Social Survey by the University of...

Our nation has an appalling shortage of affordable housing.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has signed a bill into law to bar diversity, equity and inclusion offices from public colleges in the state.  Abbott signed the legislation on Wednesday after both chambers of the state legislature approved it late last month. His signature makes Texas the second state after Florida to ban such offices...

It is hard to dislike Merrick Garland. But as an attorney general, there is even less to like about the last two years.

Most Black Americans believe racism in the United States will get worse during their lifetime, according to a new poll. A Washington Post-Ipsos poll released Friday showed that 51 percent of Black respondents said they expect racism will get worse, while 37 percent said they expect it will stay about the same. Only 11 percent...

This clear climate-health connection is missing from the list of societal improvements the government considers when weighing the costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gases.