Politics

It’s Prime Time for Socialists. How We Make Our Case Matters.

If a store where you live still carries newspapers, you can try a little experiment. Pick up the most recent issue of the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal or the New York Post or the Washi...

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San Francisco Dems poised to oppose state billionaire tax

Democratic Party leaders in San Francisco are poised to vote next week to oppose a tax on California billionaires, a striking rebuke of the progressive ballot measure in this heavily Democratic cit...

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MAGA Inc. sits on campaign cash as donors indicate only Trump can save Paxton

President Donald Trump’s super PAC continued to sit on its $400 million war chest in July, according to new spending figures, refusing to open the coffers to boost Republican candidates.The MAGA In...

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An Unsettling Glimpse Into the GOP’s Future

Normally, when a primary candidate finishes with 10.5 percent of the vote, it is a clear signal of their irrelevance.James Fishback finished third in Tuesday’s Florida Republican gubernatorial prim...

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The White House Freak-Out Over Natalie Harp

You are reading this story only because the White House didn’t want you to.I’ll explain. This past Sunday, Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff—who has become quite good at delivering viral campaign sound bi...

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Republican Mike Rogers backs Michigan data center moratorium

Republican Mike Rogers expressed support Thursday for a “pause” on data center construction as he runs against a progressive Democrat for Michigan's open Senate seat.Michigan is one of the top Sena...

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Progressive Aisha Wahab wins Eric Swalwell’s former House seat

SAN FRANCISCO — Aisha Wahab, a progressive California state lawmaker, has won the special election for an East Bay congressional seat previously held by former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, who re...

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A thirsty Michael Cohen tries to get back into Trump’s good graces

Michael Cohen, who once called President Donald Trump a racist and a con man and whose testimony helped make him a convicted felon, appears to be firmly back on the side of his former boss.Cohen, t...

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Andy Burnham’s Plan for Britain Starts Above a Manchester Cocktail Bar

MANCHESTER, England — On the day in June that Andy Burnham ended his nine-year term as mayor, Manchester’s authorities sent him off with a parting gift: a wingback chair whose shiny fabric was prin...

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The midterms of scandal are underway

Privately, many Republicans wanted GOP Rep. Cory Mills to lose his primary in Florida. Like with so many scandal-plagued candidates this year, they worried he would turn a safe seat into a battlegr...

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In Year 2 of Trump’s funding grab, Congress fights back

Republican lawmakers are still locked in a power struggle with the White House over control of federal cash, long since President Donald Trump swept back into office with unprecedented orders under...

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Trump’s biggest political event so far isn’t in a battleground state

President Donald Trump is going the extra mile for Sen. Darline Graham in deep-red South Carolina.That’s left battleground Republicans wondering when it'll be their turn, even while they acknowledg...

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A White House official helped an oil company advance its projects. Now she’ll lead its DC office

People milling around before a press conference in Santa Barbara, California, in early June might have mistaken Brittany Kelm, a White House staffer, for an oil company representative.During the to...

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Democrats want to probe Donald Trump, his family and his administration. But mostly Trump.

Democrats haven’t yet won the House majority. But top party leaders are wasting no time in preparing an all-out oversight campaign targeting President Donald Trump, his family and administration sh...

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Darline Graham’s inherited Senate seat revives the ‘widow’s mandate’ with a sibling twist

U.S. Sen. Darline Graham's appointment belongs to a long American tradition of family succession in politics. AP Photo/Meg KinnardSouth Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s July 2026 appointment of Darli...

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Democrats who ‘never voted Republican’ back Rogers over El-Sayed in razor-close race

EXCLUSIVE - DETROIT, MI - Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers has a message for Democrats who are far from happy with their party's nominee in battleground Michigan: "You have a home with us."Rog...

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How Gettysburg Became a Refuge for Conservatives Battered by Trump-Era Strife

It’s already hotter than 90 degrees here at the 161st annual reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg in July and it’s not even 10 a.m. Cannons boom in the distance. From the parking lot outside the...

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President Trump Has a Pet-Project Docket at the National Parks

President Trump gets what he wants, when he wants it, from the National Park Service. One and a half million dollars to replace brick pavers in Lafayette Park, across from the White House? Contract...

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Duffy’s road rules: What we learned from the DOT secretary’s YouTube series

Snowmobiles, self-driving cars and wedding vows. A Cabinet member vaccinating calves. And many, many on-screen plugs for the corporate sponsors paying the bills.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’...

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Resistance 1.0 Was Not Crazy

Donald Trump celebrated the defeat of one of his first impeachment nemeses—retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Alex Vindman, who lost the Democratic Senate primary in Florida on Tuesday—in typical form...

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Atlanta mayor pans city’s DNC snub

Atlanta’s mayor slammed the Democratic National Committee and its chair on Thursday after it left his city off its short list of cities to host the party’s 2028 convention, accusing the organizatio...

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