Politics

The Democratic Party is in trouble. Donald Trump swept the battleground states to defeat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, while Democrats ceded control of Congress to Republicans. The president has not been popular over his first months in office, yet Democrats haven’t been able to block Trump’s tax cuts …

This story is being published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. In the weeks since President Donald Trump targeted American cities for “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in history” and deployed U.S. troops to the streets of Los Angeles, federal and local law enforcement officers have …

President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders on Monday in a follow up to last week’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. While the back-to-back, high-stakes meetings between the warring leaders and their regional partners are aimed at finally bringing in an end to Russia’s …

Donald Trump isn’t happy with the state of Washington, D.C. The president ordered the National Guard into the nation’s capital earlier this month —supposedly to crack down on crime, even though it’s been steadily declining. Now, he’s going after the city’s museums, including those that are part of the venerated …

The New York City mayoral race is quickly becoming a full-blown social media war between Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and former Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist, blew away Cuomo in June’s primary election. The disgraced former governor refused to bow out of the race, choosing instead to …

President Donald Trump pledged Monday that he will try to eliminate mail-in voting, after telling Fox News that authoritarian Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed with him on the subject during their meeting last week. Despite lacking any sort of constitutional power on the matter, Trump declared in a Truth Social …

Donald Trump‘s deployment of National Guard troops to the nation’s capital and forcing a federal law enforcement takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department is not only terrorizing residents and workers, it’s also harming local businesses. Washington, D.C., restaurants are experiencing significant drops in reservations, and bars are seeing fewer customers. …

A group publishing pro-Russia propaganda online is impersonating legitimate news outlets in an attempt to disseminate disinformation, Politico reported, citing misinformation tracking organization NewsGuard. The effort, known as Storm-1679, creates websites that mimic real news outlets and uses those sites to push fake news stories. They have published disinformation designed …

National Guard troops that President Donald Trump has sent to Washington, D.C., “may be armed” a White House official told CBS News on Saturday, a departure from a previous statement. Officials said earlier this week that the troops would not be armed, and that weapons would not be in their …

Almost three months before Zohran Mamdani’s earthquake of a victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary this summer, a substitute teacher and long-time union organizer named Alex Brower shocked Milwaukee City Hall by winning a special election for city council as a Democratic Socialist. Brower ran on highly specific …