Politics

During the first 2024 debate last week, President Joe Biden looked fatigued, sounded hoarse, and failed to complete his thoughts several times. Halfway through the debate, NBC News reported that “sources familiar with the situation say ‘President Biden has a cold.’” Since then, Biden, his campaign, and allies have offered …

This article was developed with the support ofJournalismfund Europe. On a cold morning in late February, farmer Gareth Wyn Jones was standing with a few dozen other protesters outside the annual conference for the Conservative Party in Wales. Inside the venue, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was giving a speech …

It’s been nearly a week since Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump. As public pressure mounts for the president to reconsider his run for office, the White House and Biden campaign are struggling to reassure the public that he remains fit for the demands of elected office. Biden …

Earlier this year, Rolling Stone reported that the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has employed the for-profit consulting firm helmed by Leonard Leo, the dark money maven and conservative Supreme Court architect, according to leaked records. Leo is best known for assembling the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority. As Donald Trump’s judicial …

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, is talking up revolution and the prospect of “bloodshed” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision placing the president outside the reach of criminal law. The Heritage Foundation is the once-staid think tank that, since Roberts’ arrival in 2021, has leaned …

Hunter Biden is suing Fox News for “revenge porn,” claiming the conservative news network featured several of his “intimate images” in a “politically motivated” six-part miniseries that was distributed on the Fox Nation streaming service in October 2022. The controversial miniseries, which is no longer available, was titled “The Trial …

On Monday evening, President Joe Biden addressed the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity, speaking to the public for a total of four minutes and promptly leaving without taking any questions. The brief speech arrives days after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump left many Democratic lawmakers and Biden allies …

Hours after the Supreme Court ruled Monday that presidents have “absolute” immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office, Donald Trump moved to have his hush money conviction in New York tossed. According to CNN, in a letter to the judge overseeing the case, the former president’slegal team …

Donald Trump got away with it. That’s the result, anyway. Monday’s Supreme Court decision is a little more detailed: The court, by a 6-3 vote along partisan lines, granted the once-and-maybe-future president immunity from prosecution over most of his actions to overthrow the government in 2020 and 2021. But that’s …

At 7:45 p.m. Monday evening, hours after the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority greenlit Donald Trump’s disturbing immunity scheme, President Joe Biden finally showed up to weigh in on a “dangerous precedent” he said “undermines the rule and law of this nation.” His performance was not as viscerally bad as what …