Politics

This was John Roberts’ plan all along

Maybe John Roberts is getting uneasy that the American people are onto him. “I think they view us as truly political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do,” he tol...

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Meet the B-Team: The Cabinet deputies who may find themselves in the spotlight

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem: reassignedAttorney General Pam Bondi: oustedLabor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer: toastIt’s time for President Donald Trump’s B-Team — the agency understudie...

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‘Mild panic will set in soon’: GOP donors left to wonder about Trump’s $300 million war chest

Republican donors have given massive sums of money to Trump's operation. But they are in the dark about how he's going to spend it in the midterms.There is mounting anxiety among party donors about...

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Marco Rubio Seems to Be Having a Grand Time

It’s a low bar, perhaps, but no one in the Trump administration seems to be having more fun at the moment than Marco Rubio. Last weekend, he was acting as a DJ at a family wedding, headphones to hi...

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Makary to leave as FDA commissioner after tumultuous year, White House official says

The White House has greenlit a plan for FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to leave the Trump administration, according to a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the decision to part with t...

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Democrats just lost the redistricting war

Republicans just won the redistricting war — and boosted their slim hopes for holding the House.The Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act last week, coupled with the Virginia Supreme Cou...

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Mitt Romney is back (sort of)

Former Sen. Mitt Romney has made his first foray back into national politics since leaving the Senate, hosting a fundraiser on Wednesday for his former colleague Sen. Susan Collins.It was the first...

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Education Department launches hiring spree in key office after 2025's mass layoffs

The Trump administration has launched a hiring blitz at the agency it vowed to eliminate, according to an internal presentation reviewed by POLITICO.The Education Department’s Federal Student Aid o...

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Why Democrats' New York gerrymander won't be as aggressive as the GOP's efforts

ALBANY, New York — With Democrats’ national redistricting calculus now in disarray over Friday’s court order blocking new Virginia maps, party leaders are looking to New York as a prime opportunity...

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What Beijing has learned about the U.S. from the Iran war

The increasingly intractable conflict between the U.S. and Iran is revealing American military and strategic vulnerabilities — and offering important lessons to its biggest rival.China is watching ...

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The GOP’s Stunningly Swift Gerrymandering Drive

For more than four decades, the Ninth Congressional District of Tennessee stood as a bulwark, ensuring that the Black voters who compose a majority of the city of Memphis could choose their represe...

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White House’s ‘lack of organization’ has AI lobbyists fretting

The Trump administration’s shifting stance on regulating artificial intelligence is fueling fresh uncertainty for the tech industry.Seven lobbyists and policy advisers told POLITICO they’ve struggl...

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Virginia Supreme Court overturns Democrats' redistricting measure

The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday overturned the state’s redistricting ballot measure that would have given Democrats an edge in four House districts, dealing the party a massive blow ahead of t...

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Crypto giants pushed to ease rules on risky assets in Senate bill

America’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges are pushing for more lenient treatment of certain risky assets in a pending digital assets bill, according to a copy of their red-line edits obtained by P...

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Ex-NATO chief Rasmussen warns of ‘disintegration’ of alliance, calls for new European defense bloc

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called for a new European defense alliance, arguing that NATO in its current form is no longer sufficient as doubts grow over U.S. security g...

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Virginia’s carbon market comeback risks a multistate affordability crunch

The East Coast's signature climate policy is poised to spike electricity prices just as governors are desperate to lower them. A carbon-trading program that covers power plants across 10 mostly blu...

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Ukraine’s Weirdest Front Line

WILHELM ARCHIPELAGO, Antarctica — Sometimes, in the middle of a long workday or as she’s falling asleep, Anzhelika Hanchuk sees her phone jolted to life by a bright notification that means Kyiv is ...

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Graham Platner targets fuel tax, Big Oil in energy plan

Maine Democrat Graham Platner is targeting the oil industry and the federal gasoline tax in his campaign for the Senate seat currently held by Republican Susan Collins. Platner — who last month bec...

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Why Do People Embrace Hate? Sartre Has an Answer

What makes a person hate a particular group of people and support policies that harm them? Writing in 2020, comparative literature scholar Judith Greenberg looked at French existentialist Jean-Paul...

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A middle power gets squeezed at its own World Cup

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Under an unprecedented three-way co-hosting arrangement, the marquee moments in the lead-up to the World Cup are spread across North America’s largest countries. Last December’s l...

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Trump gets his chance to upend FEMA

President Donald Trump based a pillar of his second term on overhauling disaster aid. Now, he has his chance.A panel that Trump created last year when he was threatening to disband the Federal Emer...

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