With a little time and effort, someone can figure out exactly how an early in-person voter in Harris County, Texas voted in this year's election, according to a new lawsuit that says the state's system destroys the sanctity of the secret ballot.
Democrats say it's time for some soul-searching. That's the message from party lawmakers in the House and Senate who say they must embrace more populist policies and messaging aimed at low-income and working-class voters who helped President-elect Donald Trump win the White House and deliver Congress to the GOP.
President Biden and China's President Xi Jinping will meet on the sidelines of a summit of Pacific Rim nations Saturday in Lima, Peru, the White House announced Wednesday, likely one of the last meetings Mr. Biden will have with another top world leader before giving way to President-elect Donald Trump in January.
Here’s another way to look at why Republicans swept the 2024 elections: It’s the fault, only partly of course, of the gerontocracy of the Democratic Party. Going back through history, it’s hard to find a time when a party’s leadership was so far along in years. The founder presidents retired in their mid-sixties. Andrew Jackson […]
Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will find it’s not so easy to radically downsize government. Their task, though, will be a worthy one if they take the right advice. President-elect Donald Trump has announced that the two financial titans will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency … to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess […]
ROCKVILLE, Maryland — Caroline, a black woman in her early 60s, has lived in Maryland her whole adult life. She calls herself an independent and says Republican Larry Hogan was a good governor. She knows nothing about the record of Democrat Angela Alsobrooks, the county executive in neighboring Prince George’s County. Yet Caroline voted for […]
President-elect Donald Trump‘s early Cabinet appointments have ranged from the obvious (brilliant House Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) as ambassador to the United Nations) to the inspired (Fox News’s Pete Hegseth as defense secretary) to the aggravating (Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) as homeland security secretary). But the former and future president’s announcement that he is […]
If you thought about the worst possible choice for director of National Intelligence, former Democratic-turned-Republican Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard would be high up there. However, that’s exactly who President-elect Donald Trump nominated to head the supervision of the United States’s intelligence apparatus. Republican senators, including Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Senate Majority […]
President-elect Trump’s decision to tap Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to become attorney general caught Senate Republicans completely flat-footed, and put the party on the defensive immediately over one of the most prominent — and polarizing — Cabinet selections. Two key centrist members — Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) — expressed shock and...