Trump says Iran is ready to negotiate a ceasefire but he's not ready to make a deal  —  The president said the “terms aren't good enough yet” to make a deal with Iran amid a widening war in the Middle East.  —  President Donald Trump said Saturday that he's not ready to make a deal to end …

Appointee wants to replace White House columns with the ones Trump prefers  —  The head of a federal arts commission is proposing the more ornate Corinthian style for the nearly 200-year-old columns at the building's front entrance  —  For nearly two centuries, the White House's main entrance …

To Address Farm Labor Shortage, Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers … For years, the agricultural sector has faced a tight labor market as farmworkers age and fewer new immigrants and younger Americans are willing to toil in the fields.  Top Trump administration officials vowed …

MAGA ramps up pressure on Trump to dump Cornyn  —  President Trump, already at odds with many MAGA leaders over Iran, is getting pressured hard by MAGA activists not to endorse Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) for reelection. … Trump was leaning toward backing Cornyn before MAGA went ballistic, officials tell Axios.

Forget the “MAGA split” on Iran.  It's the independents and soft partisans that matter.  —  Plus, most “moderates” favor left-wing economic policies.  Your weekly political data roundup for March 15, 2026.  —  This is my weekly roundup of new political data published over the last seven days.

Costs and Benefits from the New Energy Crisis  —  There are many losers, but also some winners  —  Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran, began on Feb. 28.  At first, the reaction of energy markets was muted.  As the days passed, however …

The Omnipresence of Donald Trump Should Open Our Eyes  —  Does anyone think a healthy nation with a healthy political culture would elect a man like Donald Trump not once, but twice?  —  The eternal return of President Trump is a sign of our national sickness, and a recent Pew Research …

Man Who Spat on Allies For a Year Demands the World Clean Up His Catastrophe  —  Liberation Day was April 2, 2025.  Trump stood in the Rose Garden and announced that America had been ripped off for fifty years by allies who'd bled with us in every war since 1945.

F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters' Licenses Over War Coverage  —  The comment from Brendan Carr came on the heels of a social media message from President Trump criticizing the news media's coverage of the war with Iran.  —  Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission …

Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank  —  Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip  —  Israeli police have killed two young Palestinian brothers and their parents in the occupied West Bank …

Trump admin's “no quarter” Iran talk alarms legal experts  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's pledge of “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies” violates a bright-line ban in the laws of war, legal experts say.  —  Why it matters: International humanitarian law explicitly forbids declaring that …

Zelenskiy says Ukraine wants money, technology in return for Middle East drone help  —  Ukraine wants money and technology in return for helping Middle Eastern nations that have sought its expertise as they defend against Iranian kamikaze drones, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, after Kyiv sent specialists to the region.

California's Billionaire Tax Battle  —  Wealthy residents of the state have put millions of dollars toward stopping a proposed 5 percent tax on their assets.  —  Jon Feldhammer, like many Californians, often passes canvassers holding clipboards at the grocery store or on his commute to work.

Sunday Pages: “It's Up To You”  —  A musical collage by Steinski and Mass Media  —  At the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, Saddam Hussein, the despotic ruler of the latter land, was in debt to the tune of $9 billion to his smaller, wealthier neighbor to the southeast—Kuwait …

Iran says Russia and China providing ‘military cooperation’  —  Tehran has had “good cooperation with these countries: politically, economically, even militarily,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told MS NOW.  —  Russia and China are aiding Iran in a number of ways, including by providing …

Jeffrey Epstein victim: He trafficked me to Mohamed Al Fayed  —  ‘Natalie’ says she was sent to the Harrods boss as a teenage model and he sexually assaulted her on his yacht  —  Josie Ensor, Chief US Reporter, Katie Tarrant and Dipesh Gadher, Home Affairs Correspondent  —  What you need to know

In Texas, an Unyielding Gun Culture Jumps Off YouTube and Into Politics  —  Brandon Herrera, a Republican candidate for Congress, built a large online fan base as a “guntuber.”  —  Two young men stood on the windswept prairie of Northern Colorado.  —  One of them, Brandon Herrera …

As Trump pushes deportations, immigration data becomes harder to find  —  The Trump administration likes to promote its immigration enforcement agenda through numbers, with ambitious goals to deport 1 million people, report zero releases at the U.S.-Mexico border and arrest thousands of alleged gang members.