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The opening month of the second Trump administration has been marked by incredible speed and progress, especially toward their goal of scaling back the bloat of the federal government. The pace has left an out-of-power ...Read more

Here’s the most important yet overlooked fact about the Justice Department prosecutors who resigned rather than drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams: The Trump administration could have avoided the whole ...Read more

The analysis and parsing of learned lessons from the 2024 elections will continue for a long time. What did the campaigns do right and wrong? What policies will emerge from the new arrangements of power? What do the ...Read more

“Rule of Law.” I remember my first in-depth conversation about the phrase while working in Latin America—which says a lot since I took that job immediately AFTER law school.

The concept is, of course, integral to ...Read more

Before President Donald Trump, the most high-profile call to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico came from Stephen Colbert, who joked on his Comedy Central show in 2010 that the body of water should be referred to as the...Read more

Even as Hamas releases hostages and temporarily lays down its weapons, leaders of the terror group continue to make clear their intentions: No matter what happens in the Middle East, they will continue to attack Israel and...Read more

The Palisades and Eaton fires represent thousands of personal tragedies, but they also constitute a collective disaster, adding new housing shortages to California’s already massive shortfall — a catastrophe that stems...Read more

Jan. 21 marks the 15th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, a decision that opened the floodgates for unlimited corporate spending in elections. Since that ruling, super PACs and outside spending ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — In all of California, there may be no better political launching pad than the office of attorney general.

As the state's top cop as well as its chief consumer advocate, the attorney general resides in ...Read more

It wasn’t until after Martin Niemöller, a Lutheran pastor, ended up in a Nazi concentration camp that he realized he should have done more to help Hitler’s victims. He saw what was happening but he never thought they�...Read more

With Medicaid now consuming 10% of the federal budget and covering more than one-quarter of Americans, taming its spending growth is a top priority for fiscal conservatives. But efforts to right-size the program need to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick says he's on board with President Donald Trump's and Elon Musk's efforts to overhaul the federal government — moves the administration says target waste and abuse of taxpayers' ...Read more

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — President Donald Trump’s moves to slash the federal workforce have gutted the ranks of wildland firefighters and support personnel, fire professionals warn, leaving communities to face deadly ...Read more

"You should have never started it," President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, accusing Ukrainian leaders of having started the war with Russia. "You could have made a deal." He followed up the next day on social media, ...Read more

Nevada may have jolted to the right in giving its electoral votes to Donald Trump in November, but a new poll shows that most state voters still care deeply about climate change, water and public lands management.

The ...Read more

In just a few short weeks, the Trump administration has brought drastic changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health. Beginning with the removal of websites and key public health datasets ...Read more

Former Vice President Mike Pence took to social media Wednesday to call out Trump’s incorrect claim that Ukraine was to blame for the start its ongoing war with Russia.

Pence was then immediately attacked for his lack ...Read more

During his inauguration, President Donald Trump took an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution. Close to half of Americans, though, do not believe he respects the founding document, according to new polling.

In ...Read more

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was shut out of the discussions concerning the future of his country, which took place in Saudi Arabia on Feb. 18, 2025. In fact, there were no Ukrainian representatives, nor any ...Read more