“The temptation of our day is to accept the intolerable, for fear of still worse to come,” wrote German politician Hermann Rauschning in his prescient 1939 book, "The Revolution of Nihilism." Today, this formulation is useful in understanding the reaction by Russia’s elites to President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, as well as the West’s response to...
President Biden’s escalating messages of frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over events in Gaza are pointed and apparently partially persuasive. There has been no change in U.S. policy or arms sales. There are warnings without specifics. There is no set timetable. But Thursday presented the first signal that Biden would reassess backing Israel’s...
The House Freedom Caucus is staking out an official position amid talks about what role Congress has to play in reconstruction of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign announced it has fired a third-party vendor responsible for an email championing Jan. 6 "activists."
After Kansas GOP leaders and Gov. Laure Kelly struck a deal on tax cuts, state lawmakers voted it down. Republicans said the cuts were too few and Democrats said it favored the wealthy.
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Opinion Research finds Americans more supportive of checks and balances when they oppose the party in power.
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...
Melania Trump, who has been largely absent from the campaign trail during her husband’s presidential run, is back on the GOP fundraising circuit.
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