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Peter Navarro walked out of federal prison Wednesday morning and walked into the Republican convention Wednesday evening to deliver a law-defying, teeth-baring, knife-wielding speech that was one of the more [...]

If there’s one word that can instantly unite Republicans on the convention floor here, it’s not freedom or life or even Jesus. Oddly enough, it’s fentanyl. Over and over, with [...]

It’s been only two days since Donald Trump was almost killed, but there was no shadow of near death hovering over the floor of the Republican National Convention on Monday [...]

Several voices in the Democratic Party are telling President Biden to either stay in the race or leave. He seems to be listening only to those telling him, against all [...]

The https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/us/politics/poll-debate-biden-trump.html is a coldly numerical embodiment of Democrats’ worst fears since President Biden walked haltingly off the debate stage last Thursday night. Campaign staff members have intimated to reporters [...]

There was nothing abstract about the 6-to-3 decision issued Friday morning by the Supreme Court to permit bump stocks to be used on semiautomatic rifles. It is one of the [...]

Normally the “messaging bills” that each party regularly brings to a vote in Congress seem like huge wastes of time. The bills are meant only to put members of the [...]

A better human being might have expressed some remorse. Donald Trump could have gone any number of directions on Friday morning in his first speech after becoming a felon. A [...]

It was a sweet little heart, the kind you might draw on a Valentine’s Day card. “America 💜 Israel Always,” the author wrote, above her handwritten signature: “Nikki Haley.” How [...]

In the distant and innocent year of 2002, lawmakers really thought they could cut back on negative and corrosive political advertising with one simple trick: Making candidates personally stand behind [...]

In the distant and innocent year of 2002, lawmakers really thought they could cut back on negative and corrosive political advertising with one simple trick: Making candidates personally stand behind [...]

It always feels a little too simplistic to suggest that federal judges deliberately act in the interest of the president who nominated them. Most of them, in fact, do their [...]

It caused a bit of a sensation in 2014 when the editorial board of The New York Times published a six-part series urging the federal government to stop banning marijuana. [...]

Justice Amy Coney Barrett was one of six members of the Supreme Court who voted to end the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, so she has very little credibility [...]

By joining with Democrats to approve aid to Ukraine, he has defied low expectations. Given Mike Johnson's election-denying mischief and ties to the evangelical right, liberals like me were skeptical [...]

By joining with Democrats to approve aid to Ukraine, he has defied low expectations. Given Mike Johnson’s election-denying mischief and ties to the evangelical right, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/opinion/mike-johnson-house-speaker.html when House Republicans made [...]

For the first 40 minutes or so of his State of the Union speech, President Biden tried repeatedly to troll the Republicans who were silently seething in front of him. [...]

There were https://www.kcpd.org/media/5316/final-daily-homicide-analysis-23.pdf in my hometown of Kansas City, Mo., last year, a record. Most of them involved a firearm and drew little notice. But the deadly https://www.nytimes.com/article/kansas-city-parade-shooting.html afternoon drew [...]

House Republicans finally achieved their cherished goal of impeaching one of President Biden’s cabinet secretaries on Tuesday night. Republicans chose Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, largely to inflame the [...]

There was one moment in the lead-up to the defeat of the Senate's border bill that seemed to turn it from a mere political debacle into a near tragedy. On [...]

I’ve been a fan of the Chiefs since https://web.archive.org/web/20080609053609/http://www.kcchiefs.com/history/60s/, when I was in grade school in Kansas City, Mo. They had a few great years in the 1960s, then spent [...]

Out of the entire House Republican caucus, only three members had the decency and good sense to vote against the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, defeating the [...]

The latest target in the delirious campaign by Republican-led state governments to limit free expression is the American Library Association. Yes, the far right now considers the nation’s professional association [...]

Senator Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, is deeply proud that he got the Senate to confirm https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-senate-confirms-two-biden-judicial-nominees-republican-led-states-2024-01-24/ last week, with the permission of four home-state Republicans. One judge, Cristal Brisco, [...]

For how long will President Biden let Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drive a https://charlestoncitypaper.com/2023/12/19/ladson-defense-manufacturer-making-weapons-for-israel-u-s/ right over him? Ever since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that led to the Gaza war, [...]

The people who actually know Gov. Ron DeSantis had no doubt that this day would come. His campaign never took flight, forcing the early withdrawal that DeSantis announced Sunday afternoon. [...]

The old presidential trick of summoning congressional leaders to the White House and bashing their heads together to make a deal doesn’t work anymore, not with the current band of [...]

David Firestone: Hi, Mara, and welcome to a year that's going to be full of news about Mayor Eric Adams and the long-term health of New York City. City Hall [...]

The man in this photograph and others like him may turn out to be the true winners of Iowa’s popularity contest. With blizzard conditions and minus-30 wind chills in the [...]

In mid-December, just one day after Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed into law a radical new immigration bill, immigrant rights groups challenged it in court as ridiculously unconstitutional. The [...]

The lights are going to stay on in federal government offices, and also in the suite of the House speaker, Mike Johnson, at least for a few more weeks. Up [...]

President Biden flew into multiple headwinds on his risky trip to show solidarity with Israel on Wednesday. Even before his plane landed at Ben Gurion Airport, several allied Arab leaders [...]

Byline: David Firestone President Biden flew into multiple headwinds on his risky trip to show solidarity with Israel on Wednesday. Even before his plane landed at Ben Gurion Airport, several [...]

Only an extremely shallow man would repeatedly wait until the last possible moment to do the right thing, no matter how obvious that thing might be. But in today's Washington, [...]

Most other states would be ashamed of the tongue lashing issued against the government of Alabama on Tuesday by a trio of federal judges, all of whom were clearly furious [...]

Byline: David Firestone One by one, some with a little hesitation, six hands went up on the debate stage Wednesday night when the eight Republican candidates answered whether they would [...]

If you think Republicans are still members of the law-and-order party, you haven't been paying close attention lately. Since the rise of Donald Trump, the Republican definition of a crime [...]

Instead of showing up for work last Tuesday, Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, went to Donald Trump's golf club in Bedminster, N.J., to hear the former president rail against [...]

There once was a Florida fund-raising committee called Friends of Ron DeSantis, which was overflowing with the $142 million it had raised. Mr. DeSantis used it personally for his campaign [...]

Seen from outside Washington, the debt ceiling battle might seem like an abstract argument between the political parties over federal spending and deficits. But for millions of low-income Americans who [...]

There's one immediate gratification in the details of the indictment against Representative George Santos issued on Wednesday: seeing the Department of Justice actually bring charges against a demonstrably untruthful public [...]

The decision by Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday to settle its defamation suit against Fox News is no doubt a disappointment to the many people who have been viciously demeaned [...]

Byline: David Firestone The decision by Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday to settle its defamation suit against Fox News is no doubt a disappointment to the many people who have [...]

Court officials didn't take a mug shot of former President Donald J. Trump at his arraignment on Tuesday. But it's not because he didn't want one. The authorities didn't really [...]

Former Attorney General William Barr has spent the last year in a desperate salvage operation for what's left of his legal and ethical reputation. During his 22 months in office, [...]

The article focuses on the Biden administration's recent decision to begin the process of moving marijuana off the Schedule I list, which could have significant implications for the cannabis industry and pave the way for federal research on its effects.