For GOP delegates on the floor at the Republican National Convention Thursday night, the environment on the floor leading up to former President Donald Trump's nomination acceptance speech was "thrilling" and almost magical.
The Justice Department dropped a felony obstruction charge against five Proud Boys, who are facing a criminal trial in September over their actions at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mexico's president called Donald Trump "a friend" Friday and said he would write to the former U.S. president to warn him against pledging to close the border or blaming migrants for bringing drugs into the United States.
President Joe Biden has tried to pander his way to reelection as he wrestles with his abysmal polling numbers. After all that trouble, his campaign is still floundering. Biden’s previous attempts to pander to voters or use taxpayer dollars to win over certain constituencies have failed miserably. That includes his crusade to have taxpayers pay […]
The Republican National Convention concluded Thursday evening after four days of conflicting messages on economics, foreign policy, and what it means to be a conservative. In the weeks before the convention began, an internal fight grew over the platform moderating on social matters such as abortion, failing to address critical problems such as unsustainable entitlement […]
In recent weeks, President Joe Biden’s campaign has faltered as his physical decline has become too obvious for Democrats and the media to ignore. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt by the narrowest of margins, emerging bloodied yet defiant. Americans aren’t the only ones transfixed by this unique political drama. Spies from […]
President Donald Trump’s decision to name Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his vice presidential running mate has solidified the Republican Party’s transformation from a party of Wall Street and the country club into the party of Main Street and, in the words of Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, the “party of Sam’s Club.” Almost 20 […]
The House Judiciary Committee last week issued a report and held a hearing on “How the World’s Biggest Brands Seek to Control Online Speech.” The Republican-majority committee focused on conservative news outlets denied advertising revenue by being placed on secret blacklists. But the committee understated the multibillion-dollar scale of the matter and, in one case, […]
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Wall Street Journal reporter gets 16 years in Russian prison Evan Gershkovich was arrested in March 2023 on charges that he was spying on behalf of the U.S. government to collect secrets on the Russian military,...
The president had a brutal week, but is heading into the weekend still atop the Democratic ticket, with his campaign beating back a barrage of private and public pleas for his exit. The president’s week was derailed by a positive COVID-19 test result — grim counterprogramming to the Republican National Convention amid an election where...