Politics

‘Our cities are no longer safe’: GOP mayors condemn Trump immigration enforcement

A number of Republican mayors are condemning the Trump administration’s hardline immigration enforcement tactics in Minnesota, as they call on the president to pull back from Minneapolis and worry ...

Credit:

Infantino takes World Cup charm offensive to US mayors

FIFA President Gianni Infantino will take the stage Thursday at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 94th Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., in a high-profile pitch to America’s local leaders just month...

Credit:

Trump impeachment whistleblower Vindman raises $1.7M in first day of Florida Senate campaign

MIAMI — Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council aide who helped trigger President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, has raised $1.7 million in the first day of his Democratic bid fo...

Credit:

Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz worries that the violence in his state could produce a national rupture. “I mean, is this a Fort Sumter?” he mused today in an interview in his office at the state capit...

Credit:

Newsom bets big on Trump’s goodwill to shrink California’s budget hole

SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom is making a billion-dollar gamble in his latest budget plan, banking on money from a tax on health insurance carriers to help close a projected deficit.There’s...

Credit:

Lisa Cook lawsuit is ‘the most important legal case’ in Fed history, Powell says

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday said the Supreme Court’s deliberations over whether President Donald Trump can fire his colleague, Lisa Cook, might be the most consequential lawsui...

Credit:

Trump is threatening to strike Iran. His supporters wouldn’t mind.

President Donald Trump’s MAGA base, known for its aversion to U.S. involvement in foreign wars, has embraced the administration’s aggressive use of military force abroad and would strongly support ...

Credit:

Rubio walks NATO tightrope after Trump’s Greenland gambit

Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to do two things at once in testimony to senators Wednesday: take the temperature down after President Donald Trump rattled NATO by seeking to acquire Greenland...

Credit:

Minnesota prosecutors face uphill battle if they charge feds in fatal shootings

If Minnesota officials try to prosecute the federal agents who recently killed two people in Minneapolis, they’ll face steep obstacles from a century-old Supreme Court precedent — one that helped s...

Credit:

FBI raids Atlanta-area elections office amid Trump’s push to relitigate 2020 election

The FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office outside Atlanta on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the agency, which comes amid President Donald Trump’s push to r...

Credit:

Inside the White House frustrations with Sean Duffy

As last year’s government shutdown entered its sixth week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy popped up in Wausau, Wisconsin, to campaign for his son-in-law’s bid for Congress.Duffy, who at the ti...

Credit:

Trump proposal signals Medicare austerity

While President Donald Trump went easy on insurers in his broader health plan, he's drawing the line at trouble-ridden Medicare Advantage.Health insurers cheered last year when the Trump administra...

Credit:

Health insurers dodge Trump's pricing crackdown, for now

In mid-December, President Donald Trump — fresh off a deal that saw nine more major pharmaceutical companies promise to lower drug prices — said he’d pressure health insurers to do the same."I want...

Credit:

The post-2030 redistricting fight could spell big trouble for Democrats

Democrats could face a gloomy Electoral College atmosphere next decade, according to new population estimates released Tuesday that show red-leaning states like Texas and Florida making major gains...

Credit:

Donald Trump wishes he was as strong as Ilhan Omar

That reaction did not come from nowhere. It came from a life shaped by a need for strength and resilience long before Trump’s politics (Picture: BRANDON BELL) Donald Trump has sp...

Credit:

How Trump is overshadowing the Fed rate decision

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has simultaneously become one of the most and least interesting people in the news.The institution he leads is facing relentless attacks from President Donald Tr...

Credit:

The Social Forces Behind the MAGA Coalition

The glue that holds Donald Trump’s coalition together is not ideological coherence but a volatile compound of empire, spectacle, and grievance. Understanding these tensions helps explain both MAGA’...

Credit:

Trump, immigration, and Total Wine: The House primary pitting Maryland Democrats against one another

A Maryland Democrat’s attempt at a political comeback may well turn an otherwise staid contest for a blue-leaning seat into one of the most expensive House elections of the year — all for a distric...

Credit:

DOJ lawyer mum on status of Epstein investigation into Democrats

In November, as tensions over the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein reached a fever pitch, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New Y...

Credit:

The Danger of Turning Americans into Enemies

The drift toward authoritarianism rarely announces itself with a bang; it begins long before the public recognizes the danger. It begins with language: the slow, deliberate reclassifi...

Credit:

New polling memo urges Senate Dems to ‘play hardball’ on ICE

Democrats should “play hardball” ahead of a looming partial government shutdown and use their “leverage to reform ICE,” according to a new polling memo circulating among Democratic senators Tuesday...

Credit: