President Donald Trump said Monday that “jihadists” are being elected “all over the place” — trying a new, incendiary line of attack against Democrats with the midterm election just three months away. “Well, the one thing is, we have jihadists being elected all over the place,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, without specifying…
What Happened: More than 60 House Democrats are pressing Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins for answers about how the agency’s mental healthcare has been increasingly strained under President Donald Trump’s second administration. The lawmakers sent the secretary a letter last week asking questions about the state of VA care, citing a ProPublica investigation…
James Talarico is asking me if my hand is OK, and I’m trying to laugh it off. We’re stopped at the site of a collapsed water well in the craggy outskirts of Alpine, Texas. Behind us, the red and ochre cliffs of Big Bend National Park glow in the late afternoon sun. Roughly an hour…
Establishment Democrats’ response to the electoral victories of candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) should be of concern to anyone invested in the future of Black politics: The strategies Black Americans utilize to make our political demands legible within a system designed to narrow and delegitimize them. At times Black politics has…
When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order instituting a one-year moratorium on the construction of the largest, most energy-consuming data centers in the state, President Donald Trump was not happy. "New York should change its Policy, IMMEDIATELY," he posted to Truth Social. "The Radical Left Dumocrats must not be allowed to cause…
In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent schools Democrats on the proper response to Trump’s speech. Plus: Where have all the African American baseball players gone? Ad Policy US President Donald Trump gestures after addressing the nation on July 16, 2026. (Saul Loeb / Pool – Getty Images) This is a preview of Nation…
Dallas-area Democrats are demanding that Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton be investigated for illegal voting after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that he has repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live. In a complaint filed Tuesday, the Collin County Democratic Party asked the Texas secretary of…
At an Open Markets Institute conference, economic populism was on the agenda. Ad Policy Democratic Senators Chris Murphy and Chris Van Hollen depart a briefing at the Capitol in Washington, DC, in June 2025. (Kent Nishimura / Bloomberg) The Open Markets Institute, a DC clearinghouse of antitrust policy and legal strategy, didn’t lack for ambition…
