The pro-James Talarico forces are jumping on a new poll that shows him within striking distance of becoming the first Democrat to win a statewide race in Texas in more than 30 years.
The Supreme Court gave approval Tuesday for political parties to coordinate their spending with their candidates, saying a long-standing bar on coordination violates core First Amendment speech rights.
The Supreme Court forcefully affirmed America's guarantee of automatic citizenship to persons born on U.S. soil, ruling Tuesday against President Trump's attempt to unilaterally rewrite the bedrock birthright.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in parts of South Africa to rally against illegal immigration on Tuesday in the biggest migration-related protests since anti-migrant violence broke out in the country in 2008.
President Vladimir Putin has signaled Russia’s disinterest in new peace negotiations with Ukraine. Instead, he is recharacterizing his war on Ukraine as an imperial restoration project. While he has always viewed Ukraine as a Russian limb, Putin’s rhetoric reflects his need to consolidate Russians amid a failing war effort. Putin’s latest comments came in an […]
As our republic marks its semiquincentennial, 2 in 5 people doubt it will endure as a single nation for another quarter millennium. The real threat is internal: can shared civic purpose, restraint on faction, and strategic clarity be recovered before the trajectory hardens? Recent polls also show that two-thirds of Democrats view socialism more favorably […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets, which arrives groggy after a day in the sun and a night staying up too late watching World Cup soccer. So just what is the Great American State Fair like? Well, in some ways, it is a perfect encapsulation of the nation in 2026: a raw display of […]
A band of conservative hardliners blocked a procedural rule that would have teed up debate and final votes on a slate of legislation Tuesday, dealing a huge blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as he aims to advance a packed agenda this week. The lower chamber voted 198-224 to reject the rule, with 14 Republicans...
Kevin Roberts, the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, called the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday upholding birthright citizenship a “tremendous betrayal of the public.” "The Justices in the majority have inflamed the all-out assault on our sovereignty and cheapened the sacred value of American citizenship," Roberts wrote on social platform X. "Universal birthright citizenship...