Politics

Lindsey Graham is spending big to ward off an ‘America First’ primary challenge

The far right is trying to defeat Sen. Lindsey Graham. He’s burning serious cash to make sure that doesn’t happen.Spending from his campaign and allied outside groups ahead of Tuesday’s primary has...

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Trump lost the tariff case. He might still keep some of the money.

President Donald Trump is launching a new effort to try to avoid paying back billions of dollars worth of tariffs he illegally collected. Legal watchers say there’s a chance the White House effort ...

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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Ben Fountain (Rasputin Swims the Potomac) Courtney Maum (...

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MORNING GLORY: Will Xi free Lai?

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping is as known a quantity as is possible for a totalitarian dictator to be known.Xi is the absolute ruler of the second most powerful nation...

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New York Republicans see opening with tax-the-rich hike

ALBANY, New York — Democratic infighting over taxing the rich is giving New York’s beleaguered Republican Party an opening.The question remains whether they can capitalize on it.Bruce Blakeman’s lo...

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Trump’s man in Central Asia

When Sergio Gor left Washington last year, it wasn’t a secret that he had rubbed many in the White House the wrong way.President Donald Trump even joked about it. But Gor never really left Trump’s ...

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Can rural-urban dialogue fix America’s broken democracy?

America is a broken political family. On the ground, this means that Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, do not live in the same neighborhoods or belong to the same organizations...

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Seton Hall pursues former president over alleged leak tied to abuse investigation

One of the country’s top Catholic universities won a big victory earlier this year when a judge dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit brought by its former president. But for Seton Hall, the legal batt...

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The Week Where Republicans May Have Stolen the Midterms

Republican state legislators, governors, state supreme court justices, and U.S. Supreme Court justices have combined over the last week to effectively hand up to 10 U.S. House seats to the GOP. Tha...

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'Out of control': Inflation surges to highest point in 3 years, driven by energy

Inflation climbed faster than at any point in the last three years in April as fuel and food prices surged due to the war in Iran.The Labor Department on Tuesday reported that the consumer price in...

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Companies want tariff refunds. They don’t want Trump’s wrath.

When it comes down to a choice between staying in President Donald Trump’s good graces or getting back millions of dollars owed to them, companies are taking the cash.But many are doing their best ...

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Top Republican wants more details on Iran war if ceasefire ends

Sen. Deb Fischer — a top Republican on defense issues — said she wants the Trump administration to further explain its Iran war if a fragile ceasefire collapses.“As this operation continues and cha...

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Transcript: Trump and the Supreme Court Are Crushing Black Power

This is a lightly edited transcript of the May 8 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon. I...

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Supreme Court allows Alabama GOP to erase Black House district

The Supreme Court has given Alabama the go-ahead to use a congressional map that will likely remove a Democratic incumbent from the state.In a 6-3 ruling issued Monday, the court’s conservative maj...

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Republicans air unease over ballroom security funding request

President Donald Trump and his deputies have a major sales job ahead of them on Capitol Hill as multiple GOP lawmakers questioned a proposed $1 billion in Secret Service security spending that coul...

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California mayor accused of secretly working for China, spreading propaganda while in office: feds

A California mayor who has since resigned has been charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China and has agreed to plead guilty, according to federal prosecutors who say...

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Trump's gas tax holiday pitch faces some early Capitol Hill headwinds

Interest in a gasoline tax holiday is growing on Capitol Hill following President Donald Trump’s endorsement earlier Monday — but the proposal is also facing pushback from some key Republicans balk...

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As Republicans carve up Black districts, Democrats pivot to a new midterm message

Democrats are changing their redistricting strategy — again.Just two weeks after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries promised to invoke “maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time,” his side has b...

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Why MAHA isn't breaking through on Capitol Hill

The MAHA assault on junk food is not catching on in Congress, even as President Donald Trump and his legions of supporters use the populist health movement to take shots at the deep-pocketed indust...

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Matt Damon’s Beer-Braised Brett Kavanaugh Finds A Constitutional Loophole For Trump’s Third Term

Few things capture the current state of constitutional discourse quite like Matt Damon’s Saturday Night Live imagining of Brett Kavanaugh, drunk after ordering a “6-3 decision” (i.e., six Bud Light...

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Gas giant met with White House about New England pipeline project

Enbridge is planning an expansion of a major natural gas pipeline into New England, setting the stage for a political battle over the future of the Northeast’s energy system just as the midterm ele...

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