Federal judges are not elected by voters. Our constitutional process gives the president the authority to nominate federal judges and then appoint them if the Senate consents.  Yet both Republican and Democratic voters place great importance on who fills open federal judgeships. Thus, the kind of judges a presidential candidate will nominate has become a […]

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio,) the Republican vice-presidential nominee, defended former President Trump for calling his domestic political opponents “the enemy from within" and for saying they pose the greatest political threat to the country. In a Sunday interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker pressed Vance on whether he agrees with Trump...

More than three-quarters of Americans say democracy is currently under threat, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. Seventy-six percent of likely voters say democracy is “currently under threat,” while only 20 percent say it’s not under threat. Another four percent say they don’t know or refused to answer. Americans are divided, however,...

Cuba's communist regime has failed to provide basic necessities such as food, medicine, and healthcare, and has resorted to repression and modern slavery to maintain its grip on power.

Immigrants, including those who arrived in America in desperate poverty, from very different cultures and societies, have overcome fearmongering, threats and violence to become accepted as productive American citizens.

Republican Tim Sheehy is narrowly leading Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) in the home stretch of the Montana Senate race, according to a new poll released on Sunday. A survey from Emerson College Polling and The Hill found Sheehy leading Tester 50 percent to 46 percent, with 3 percent undecided. When factoring in undecided voters who...