Politics

‘They’re spinning’: Republicans, grappling with midterm anxiety, go negative

President Donald Trump on Monday gathered more than a hundred small business leaders at the White House to tout tax cuts included in his “Big Beautiful Bill.”Some of his closest allies worry the pr...

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Supreme Court restores abortion pill access — for now

The Supreme Court has temporarily restored mail-order access to the abortion drug mifepristone, after a federal appeals court curtailed access to the drug on Friday.In a brief order Monday, Justice...

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Colorblind Constitution: The Roberts Court Ends A 'Sordid Business'

Colorblind Constitution: The Roberts Court Ends A 'Sordid Business' Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, barring racial gerrymanderin...

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DeSantis signs Florida's new GOP-friendly congressional map into law — but lawsuits likely loom

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed into law a new congressional map that could help Republicans pick up four more seats in the House — but one that is expected to immediately...

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Trump privately raises objection to Senate housing bill

President Donald Trump is privately raising concerns with a Senate-approved housing bill that his White House previously supported — and almost made his objections public late last week.Trump was o...

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The Venture-Capital Populist

Illustrations by Mike McQuadeThe courtship between Silicon Valley and MAGA was consummated on June 6, 2024, in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood, on a street known as “Billionaires’ Row,...

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Inside the Quiet Republican Effort to Flip Fetterman

It’s a few days after the election this November, and the results have become clear: Democrats have netted the four seats they need to claim a Senate majority.But then there’s a disturbance in the ...

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Xavier Becerra unveils his AI vision for California

Democrat Xavier Becerra is getting serious about tech policy after catapulting into the upper echelon of California’s gubernatorial field.The former Health and Human Services secretary on Monday un...

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How Xavier Becerra became the Joe Biden of California’s governor race

Xavier Becerra is becoming the Joe Biden of California’s gubernatorial campaign.Like the former president before his South Carolina revival in 2020, Becerra had been languishing for months before s...

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Gallego’s energy plan: Pull the Democrats to the center

Adopting an “all of the above” energy policy message will help Democrats show voters the party is serious about tackling the affordability crisis — and ultimately boost clean energy and the fight a...

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Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in ‘critical but stable condition,’ spokesperson says

Former New York mayor and key Trump ally Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized, a spokesperson announced Sunday on X.Giuliani, who will turn 82 later this month, is in critical but stable condition, ...

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Enbridge aims to help North America win from the AI boom and the Iran war as the FedEx of energy delivery

Call it the FedEx of energy. Calgary-based Enbridge has grown into the largest oil and gas pipeline company in the world by market cap—$120 billion—delivering vital energy supplies across the globe...

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Investigate them or shame them? Inside the debate over how to deal with creeps in Congress

Two recent lawmaker resignations over sexual misconduct allegations have Congress wrestling with a familiar challenge: How can it encourage survivors of abuse to come forward in one of America’s mo...

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Breaking down the redistricting arms race following the Supreme Court's VRA ruling

The Supreme Court’s decision slashing a key Voting Rights Act protection has led to a renewed redistricting arms race, with both parties promising maximalist approaches to redraws.Eight states have...

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Democratic leaders want an affordability debate on AI. Critics say they’re ducking the real fight.

House Democrats are heading into the midterms with a pocketbook-focused message on artificial intelligence — one narrowly centered on the energy costs of data centers, but far milder than the popul...

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Tuning out: Why many Americans are sick of the news – especially Trump news

We are all drowning in polls. Seems like there's a survey for everything under the sun: Where does Gen Z get its news? Are you worried about the economy? What do you think of the White House ballro...

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Republicans see high-risk plans as the future of health insurance

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have switched to health insurance that covers a lot less of their care this year.Republicans hope a lot more will follow them.The shift since January was driven b...

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Pirro confident armed man at WHCD targeted Trump

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Sunday appeared confident that the Justice Department will be able to prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the armed man at the White House Correspondents' Dinner w...

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Trump says US will help ‘'free up' ships in Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump said Sunday the U.S. will help free some ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz amid the U.S. and Israel’s ongoing war with Iran.Trump said in a social media post that several c...

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Recent Books on the Constitution

Each fall, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. At that time, because I tend to read what relates directl...

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Something’s off about “Animal Farm”

It may seem like years in the past at this point, but it was only three little months ago that the world got itself worked into a lather over Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.” The crux of the ...

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