‘You gotta be kidding me’: Hegseth used these 4 things to decide on senior officer promotions  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth short-circuited a merit-based process for promoting senior officers and instead relied on newly invented criteria that disproportionately removed from advancement women …

10 takeaways from Trump's 60 Minutes interview: Why GOP lost the midterms, what went wrong on immigration and more  —  Days after Republicans faced a series of bruising midterm election losses, President Trump stood by his handling of the economy and the Iran war — but he acknowledged some …

Biden: What Trump Did on January 6 ‘Should Follow Him to His Grave’  —  Eight days after the 2024 election, I honored a presidential tradition by hosting a visit from the president-elect.  Jill and I met President Trump and his entourage in the Diplomatic Reception Room …

Republican Rep. French Hill won't rule out impeaching Pete Hegseth after barely winning re-election  —  A Republican congressman who narrowly won a seventh House term in deep-red Arkansas refused Sunday to rule out voting to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Trump backs Nvidia's Huang amid affair, spy investigation  —  President Trump defended Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Sunday night, even as the company's board launched an investigation into his affair with a suspected Chinese spy. … - “I don't know, but I'd certainly take him,” the president told reporters.

House Democrats plan more prominent placement for Jan. 6 memorial plaque  —  Democrats intend to find a more prominent location to display a memorial plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — which Republicans currently have relegated to the basement of the building.

Major media outlets sanitize Stephen Miller's white nationalist ideas  —  After a historic defeat in the 2026 midterm elections, President Trump named Stephen Miller as his new White House chief of staff, elevating his longtime aide to one of the most powerful positions on earth.  —  Who is Stephen Miller?

'Russ Vought's gonna meet his match': What Murkowski's potential promotion means for the White House  —  As President Donald Trump loses one of the biggest GOP critics of his administration with Sen. Susan Collins' defeat, he's gaining an increasingly powerful Republican antagonist who could pose a bigger liability for his agenda.

Here Are the Difficult Options Trump Is Weighing to Resolve the War in Iran  —  There are no good choices facing President Trump as he tries to find a way out of the deeply unpopular conflict.  But there are choices.  —  The public split last week between Vice President JD Vance …

Firm Linked to Trump's Sons Got Nearly $40 Million in Federal Contracts to Screen for Ebola and Other Diseases  —  The Trump administration awarded a small biosecurity company nearly $40 million to screen for Ebola and other infectious diseases just months after a firm linked …

Introducing Public Reason  —  Fixing liberalism's ideas problem, one post at a time.  —  The midterm elections — together with contests in Brazil, Serbia, and to some degree even Israel — have changed the world.  All of a sudden, the once-ascendant populist right is on the back foot …

Hakeem Jeffries has a choice to make: Will he work with Trump?  —  President Donald Trump said after Tuesday's midterm drubbing he wants to “work with” Democrats.  Now Hakeem Jeffries has to decide if his party will play ball.  —  As he prepares to lead a massive House Democratic majority …

Exclusive / ‘Put the posters in charge’: Inside the Democrats' secret strategy to flood the internet with clips  —  By January 2025, Paulina Mangubat knew the Democratic National Committee needed to change its digital communications approach dramatically.  —  The organization had been shattered …

Day 7: March 16, 2023 Setting Patterns  —  After a week of legalized sports betting in Massachusetts, 137 of our first-time bettors have made a deposit in a sportsbook at least seven times, an average of one per day.  The Second Measure data show only money put into sportsbooks, not what people withdraw in winnings.

The Texas Miracle  —  Democracy's biggest win in a night of big wins … On March 23, 2026, the Conservative Political Action Conference — which is to the global right what the Comintern once was to international communism — held its fifth annual meeting in Budapest.

Progressives Launch ‘Ready for AOC,’ as 2028 Jockeying Heats Up  —  A new political organization aims to encourage Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president, and to demonstrate that a formidable organizing apparatus is awaiting her.  —  Fresh off a midterm election …