Congressional Republicans are facing a leadership vacuum as the search for a Speaker heats up and the next government funding deadline draws near. With just over 40 days to fund the government, jockeying to be the next Speaker of the House is in full swing after Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) shocking ouster earlier this week. The...
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign claimed Thursday that protesters ran into their parked car at a campaign stop in Grinnell, Iowa. But local...
Marty Baron ran The Washington Post’s newsroom for nine years.
In that time, Marty clashed with then-President Donald Trump.
He pacified rebellions from his...
Former President Donald Trump has officially endorsed Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the House Judiciary Committee chairman and longtime Trump defender, to succeed Kevin McCarthy as House speaker.
Everyone likes free speech until they’re the one being spoken about. No doubt the Swiss journalist Catherine Macherel was insulted when the French-Swiss racist agitator Alain Soral called her a “fat lesbian” in a Facebook video and said that her work as a “queer activist” showed that she was “unhinged.” But should Soral go to jail and pay thousands of euros in fines, as a Swiss court decided on Oct. 3?
History is famously full of conflicts celebrated by the victors and forgotten by the losers. But some are ignored on all sides. The Franco-Prussian War is one of the latter, but it is now excavated by Rachel Chrastil's Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe.
Anti-vagrancy laws are older than the republic. County governments in England and states in America have always enjoyed the power to regulate the use and misuse of public spaces.
The House is in uncharted territory after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was ousted from his Speakership this week, leaving members trying to navigate a way forward amid the chaos. McCarthy was booted from the top spot in a 216-210 vote on Tuesday. The situation is unprecedented, leaving many wondering what comes next. Who is leading...