One month into President Donald Trump’s term, many meetings could qualify for the distinction as the most consequential for national security. For starters, there was the meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which led the news cycle for weeks over the president’s new Gaza proposal. The White House issued pages of promised joint initiatives […]
President Donald Trump now has his full Justice Department team in place. But how will Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel pursue justice over the next four years? The first obvious opportunity is to follow through on Trump’s promise to depoliticize the Justice Department. That should mean an end to warped DEI-related […]
Like most evangelical Christians and the plurality of all Americans, I proudly voted for President Donald Trump in November. Washington needed to be shaken up by some commonsense, cost-cutting, old-fashioned conservative values, and Trump is following through on his Make America Great Again agenda. However, I’m concerned Trump may have misunderstood evangelical voters in some […]
There still is a lot of work to be done, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) scored a major victory late Tuesday night when the House narrowly advanced a budget resolution that was necessary for final passage of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. The victory was not an easy one. Johnson spent the day hosting […]
The country’s only manufacturer of generic abortion medication asked to be a part of the first legal fight over the procedure since President Donald Trump returned to office. The company, GenBioPro, filed a motion on Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division, asking to be added to...
The head of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) says the public can no longer trust pool reports now that the reporters included in the small group will be controlled by President Trump's team. "For years the WHCA had created a format for standards, length, accuracy for the American people that they could trust that...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to lean toward reviving a straight woman’s “reverse discrimination” case brought over claims she was passed over for a promotion and demoted in favor of gay colleagues. Such a ruling would lower the legal hurdle in many areas of the country for white and straight employees to bring discrimination suits...
Despite the initial successes of litigation against the Trump administration, many are skeptical that the courts will ultimately stop the erosion of democracy, highlighting the need for a broader policy agenda and public engagement to protect democracy from an authoritarian takeover.
The Republican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee instructed GOP staff to refer to the West Bank by its biblical name, Judea and Samaria. The term is still used by Israel’s government to refer to territory of the West Bank along the Jordan River, claimed by both Israel and the Palestinians. Rep. Brian Mast...
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said he believes the Democratic Party has “fallen out of touch” with what the majority of Americans want from the party. Moulton went on Fox News on Wednesday, where he highlighted the idea from Democratic strategist James Carville that Democrats should sit back and let President Trump “punch himself out” and...