The American political system is unique: a system built in pursuit of deadlock rather than “progress,” a system that fully understands human nature and proactively defends against it, and a system that holds itself accountable, at least when it works as designed. But at its heart, American politics is unique because the United States of […]

President Donald Trump once wrote, “The best thing you can do is deal from strength.” After four years of the Biden administration‘s “America Last” agenda, divisive diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, and overall mismanagement, the U.S. military no longer projects the strength needed to uphold our status as the leader of the free world. As […]

Manafort, who advised former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, said Zelenskyy has political motivations for prolonging the conflict.

Donald Trump is a president at the height of his political power — and well aware of it.

Americans awoke on Tuesday morning to an intensifying trade war, as President Trump’s newest tariffs on Canadian, Mexican and Chinese imports were imposed and those countries quickly moved to retaliate. The Trump administration imposed 25 percent tariffs on most imports from Canada and Mexico and a new 10 percent tariff on imports from China. In...

The claim that NATO expansion triggered the war is nothing new. But what President Trump is doing is qualitatively different, and far more dangerous. 

The Trump administration is considering selling or canceling leases on thousands of empty federal buildings to help solve the dual problems of a surplus of empty federal office buildings and the housing shortage, with developers potentially turning them into apartments and condos.

President Trump is set to address a joint session of Congress for the first time during his second term on Tuesday, outlining the goals of his administration and how he views the state of the country. The first address that the president gives to Congress is technically not referred to as a State of the...

President Trump has turned the history of the Western world upside down by luring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into the Oval Office and using the occasion to put the United States squarely in the camp of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In today’s issue: President Trump will tell Americans in a prime-time speech tonight that his dizzying moves early in his second term should give them confidence about constructing what he calls the nation’s new “golden age.” Trump’s remarks are aimed at helping jumpstart his congressional agenda while defending broad cuts to federal agencies, an escalating...