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Clintons hope Trump, Vance ‘will govern for all of us’

Former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in on the results of the White House race Wednesday, saying in a statement that they hope President-elect Trump and his vice president, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), "will govern for all of us." “Kamala Harris and Tim Walz ran a positive, forward-looking campaign to...

After Harris’s defeat, state victories show a new direction for Black politics

While most observers of Black politics will focus on the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris, we should not neglect a silver lining to be found in the states.

Peace through strength? Or World War Trump? 

Is Trump really the leader who can “stop the wars” as he claims? Or will his Peace Through Strength policies provoke the conflicts that he claims he now opposes?   

Musk credits podcast appearances for Trump win: ‘He’s just being a normal person’

Tech billionaire Elon Musk attributed President-elect Trump’s election victory, at least in part, to the lengthy podcast interviews he did during the campaign. In an interview late Tuesday with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Musk said Trump's podcast appearances showed the American public that he was a normal person. “I think it made a...

Harris ran on Biden’s foreign policy legacy. It was not popular.

Harris never presented specific ways her global leadership would differ from Biden’s.   

Mad Vlad’s ‘Red Dawn’

U.S. officials are investigating whether or not the Kremlin is behind a series of attempts to place incendiary devices aboard DHL cargo planes, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has a long history of downing airliners and has become part of the Kremlin's playbook.

Morning Report — Dems’ losses jolt party coast to coast

In today’s issue:   Vice President Harris’s speech Wednesday about President-elect Trump’s decisive victory on Election Day made no mention of how he won or why she lost. It was a concession address that conceded little beyond an admonition to a teary-eyed mass of supporters at Washington’s Howard University that “we must accept the results...

Democrats’ election abortion strategy falls flat

Democrats’ strategy of tying former President Trump and Republicans to abortion bans across the country appeared to fall flat with voters on Tuesday.  Democrats saw major victories on the issue in the 2022 midterms and Virginia’s off-year elections in 2023, but the party largely underperformed up and down the ballot on the issue with key...

Trump civil cases could trudge on in wake of presidential victory 

President-elect Trump’s criminal prosecutions are expected to flatline as he returns to the White House, but a murky path forward remains for the sprawling civil lawsuits against him. Between judgments in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud case and two defamation suits brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, Trump is staring down the...

Trump’s big tent: President-elect improved on 2020 performance in 4 counties with big minority populations

President-elect Donald Trump made electoral gains with key Black and Latino constituencies that were foundational to his 2024 presidential election victory.

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