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The Chicago Political Machine’s New Blueprint for Power

The Chicago Teachers Union wants to use its new contract to ensure its place atop the city’s politics.

Back-to-Back Hunter Biden Trials Are a Big Political Problem for the President

But he and his faux special counsel might yet find a solution.

Will the Biden-Trump Debates Even Matter?

Biden’s offer, timing, and criteria smack more of a losing candidacy than a winning one.

Can Poland Escape Its Revolutionary Cycle?

A volatile back-and-forth contest between liberals and populists has marked the nation’s politics over the past decade-plus. Is a more stable future possible?

Member of Taiwan’s parliament steals bill to prevent its passage

Members of the Taiwanese legislature clashed in a chaotic brawl this week, resulting in members being tackled and hit, after a member attempted to steal a bill to prevent it from being passed. Lawmakers were seen leaping over tables and pulling other colleagues to the floor, Reuters reported. The Kuomintang (KMT), the main opposition party,...

Congress must stop Biden from fueling a Saudi nuclear bomb  

If Jake Sullivan and team can pull it off, the mega deal will be billed as bringing peace to the Middle East. If it opens the door to Saudi enrichment, however, the accord will only fuel more chaos and instability.  

Trump suggests White House owes him apology for ‘sham trial’

Former President Trump said Friday evening he thinks the “inner halls” of the White House should apologize for the New York hush money case Trump faces, and that the case should be dropped. “There is virtually universal agreement of the fact that the Alvin Bragg Witch Hunt against me, a SHAM TRIAL instigated and prosecuted...

Haley protest votes raise red flags for Trump

The tens of thousands of primary votes cast in favor of Nikki Haley over the last several months are underscoring the apparent discontent many Republicans feel with former President Trump as their presumptive nominee, raising alarm for his campaign and fueling questions over whether he needs to do more to unify the party’s different factions. ...

Johnson’s Trump trip unsettles some Republicans: ‘Tell me this isn’t so’

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to appear this week at former President Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan is sparking new blowback from some House Republicans, who are questioning why he would inject himself so prominently in a case involving an alleged affair with a porn star. These Republicans, who requested to speak anonymously to...

‘Shadow of segregation looms’ on 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board 

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was only 7 when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education case that separate but equal was unconstitutional. Before that, though, Green rode the bus from Fort Walton Beach, Fla., to Crestview, Fla., to go to school every day. “I can tell you what it was like...

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