Former Vice President Mike Pence, a typically mild-mannered and relentlessly on-message politician, took the gloves off during Wednesday night's GOP primary debate as his campaign looks for a spark. Pence frequently interrupted and talked over other candidates and rivals, ensuring he’d get attention on the debate stage. He repeatedly confronted rival candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who...
The Republican presidential debate Wednesday highlighted how a 15-week federal ban on abortions has become a key marker in the party's struggle to coalesce around a position on the crucial issue. Candidates are trying to walk a tightrope by staking out a "pro-life" position that won't turn off a majority of voters in a general...
Vivek Ramaswamy's presidential campaign is seeking to capitalize on his fiery GOP debate performance that found the 38-year-old millennial at the center of attention for much of Wednesday night. The first Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee at times turned into a split-screen between Ramaswamy and several GOP contenders taking jabs at the Ohio biotech entrepreneur...
On Aug. 28, 1963, more than a quarter million people walked in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — the same march that saw the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Now, 60 years later, the march is being recreated as advocates highlight the fight...
As the nation commemorates the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, an event that called for freedom and opportunity for Black Americans, controversy around education standards has raised concern about how this historical moment will be taught in schools. Over the past year, states have passed legislation that limits what aspects of Black history can be taught in...
The first GOP debate of the 2024 presidential primary season began on Fox News this week with an unusual prompt: a clip of a low-budget country song from an artist who had no public name recognition as of three weeks ago. “'Cause your dollar ain't s--- and it's taxed to no end,” singer Oliver Anthony proclaims with...
Federal health authorities are laying out plans for taking on this year's respiratory viral season, with officials emboldened by the new spate of preventive medications the U.S. has gathered heading into the fall and winter. "We are in our strongest position yet to be able to fight COVID-19 as well as the other viruses that...
Rising GOP support for the U.S. taking unilateral military action in Mexico against drug cartels is increasingly rattling people on both sides of the border who worry talk of an attack is getting normalized. Wednesday’s Republican presidential primary debate featured high-stakes policy disagreements on a range of issues from abortion to the environment — but...
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...