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Bringing Japan and South Korea together as U.S. security partners

The agreement represents yet another major step in realizing Washington’s long-standing goal to secure a closer security relationship between America’s two powerful East Asian allies.

Morning Report — Historic swap frees U.S. hostages from Russia

President Biden and Vice President Harris made their way late Thursday to the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews near Washington to welcome Americans who were wrongly imprisoned by Russia and freed as part of the largest prisoner swap negotiated since the Cold War. For a president who pledged to bring all wrongly detained Americans home and is an...

Keep it simple, Kamala, and ride the wave to victory 

In the last 12 days, we’ve seen the birth of something genuinely new: the crowdsourced campaign. 

Study finds major Earth systems likely on track to collapse: 5 things to know

Four key pillars of the global climate are melting in the heat trapped by rising fossil fuel emissions, a new study has found. The relatively stable climate that nurtured human civilization depends in large part on these structures: the ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica, the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic currents that warm...

House Democrats home in on Tim Walz for Harris ticket

As Vice President Harris weighs her choice for running mate, House Democrats are increasingly advocating for a former colleague: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. First elected to Congress in 2006, Walz served in the House for 12 years and rose to become the top Democrat on the powerful Veterans Affairs Committee before heading home in 2019...

Social workers advocacy group endorses Harris for president

The National Association of Social Workers Political Action for Candidate Election (NASW-PACE) endorsed Vice President Harris on Friday, the group first told The Hill. NASW-PACE, the largest membership organization of professional social workers, said their endorsement stems from Harris’s leadership and historic candidacy and the Biden-Harris administration’s investments in mental health, including investments in the...

GOP accuses Harris of ‘hiding’ from press. Most Dems don’t care — for now

Republicans are accusing Vice President Harris of “hiding” from the press by not doing sit-down interviews and press conferences since becoming the likely Democratic presidential nominee. And while Harris is in the middle of a political honeymoon after unifying a Democratic Party that had been badly divided over President Biden’s future, some Democrats fear the vice...

New poll reveals how well voters know the candidates on Harris’ veep shortlist

A new poll revealed that one candidate is leading among Vice President Kamala Harris' vice presidential contenders, while the pool remains widely unknown to the public.

‘F— the White women’: Black activists tied to VP Harris could derail Dem ‘unity’ message with past rhetoric

A pair of Black female activists tied to VP Harris could alienate voters with their past rhetoric as they try to help her get elected in November.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

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