A Homecoming Shadowed by History While millions of Americans this summer are flocking to Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and Mount Vernon to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary, a caravan of 52 Eastern Shawnee citizens made a profoundly different kind…
The Detroit Opera House filled with energy on Saturday, July 18, as Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took the stage alongside Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive candidate challenging the Democratic establishment in one of this cycle’s most consequential Senate…
President Donald Trump used a primetime televised address on Thursday night to advance a series of unfounded claims about the integrity of American elections, asserting without evidence that the United States faces catastrophic vulnerabilities in its electoral system. The speech…
What is happening, and why does it matter right now? The Department of Homeland Security has launched an investigation into a sprawling network of scammers who prey on immigrants caught up in the United States’ increasingly punishing immigration system. Complaints…
A Senator’s Ultimatum and What It Reveals About the Democratic Party’s Fault Lines Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has issued a pointed ultimatum: if the Democratic Party formally becomes what he calls “the anti-Israel party,” he will walk. The declaration, made…
A striking new survey from The Wall Street Journal and NORC Research Center has landed with the weight of a verdict: most Americans believe capitalism is not working, democracy is faltering, and the wealthy have seized a level of power…
What happened, and why is this ex-girlfriend speaking out? Graham Platner, a Maine Democrat who had been running for the U.S. Senate, suspended his campaign after multiple women came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Now, Emily Suttle-Braun…
What just happened in Maryland? On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a seven-page letter to Maryland’s state Elections Administrator, Jared DeMarinis, threatening him with criminal charges including criminal conspiracy and civil rights violations. The letter, signed by Harmeet…
What actually happened on July 4th in Washington? Hundreds of masked members of Patriot Front, a white supremacist organization, marched through the nation’s capital on Independence Day. They moved in formation to the beat of drummers near the U.S. Capitol…
The Age Problem Republicans Can No Longer Ignore Donald Trump is 80 years old, the oldest person ever inaugurated as president, and a growing share of his own party thinks that matters. New polling from Daily Mail/JL Partners finds that…