Politics

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), President Donald Trump, and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Johnson and Thune adopt Trump’s messaging on ‘fake’ polling as GOP looks to project midterm optimism

Emily Hallas · October 27, 2026 2:26 pm

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY)

Hochul cast doubt on socialists winning statewide in New York despite Mamdani friendship

Former U.S. President Barack Obama.

Obama endorses Angie Nixon after cry for support to party leadership

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Paxton sues OpenAI over ‘litany of harms’ as campaign races to win over voters

Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, points with his finger while speaking at the Republican convention.

Ohio Sen. Jon Husted says ‘I would not have run’ Ramaswamy ad against Amy Acton

Post-it notes are placed behind a memorial for Charlie Kirk at the "Creators Deck" for the media, at the Republican convention Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, in Dallas.

Four in 10 undergraduate students say ‘offensive speech’ deserves prosecution: Poll

Hudson Crozier October 19, 2026 12:09 pm

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (left) and Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson (right) (Ryan Murphy/AP; Lindsey Wasson/AP)

When purity politics runs its course: Even the most strident DSA politicians must learn to compromise

John Scott Lewinski October 17, 2026 8:09 am

Visitors look to a museum building at the Obama Presidential Center, Friday, June 19, 2026, in Chicago.

Obama presidential center’s costs balloon to $1 billion after initial $300 million estimate

Emily Hallas October 15, 2026 11:40 am

Former President Barack Obama during a campaign event for Representative Mikie Sherrill, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for New Jersey, not pictured, in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. In both the Virginia and New Jersey's governor's races, Democrats are fielding a pair of veteran Washington lawmakers with center-left voting records and national security backgrounds, whose campaigns have centered on the economy while hoping to court a potential Trump backlash. Photographer: Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Democrats see ‘hope’ with Obama on campaign trail as he helps boost cash and energy

Emily Hallas October 9, 2026 12:03 pm

House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) sits for a portrait in his Capitol Hill office on June 15, 2007. (AP Photo / Susan Walsh, File)

Dennis Hastert, 1942–2026

Daniel Ross Goodman October 9, 2026 5:05 am

A banner reading "Fast Track to California's Future" is displayed at the California High-Speed Rail Authority's 150-acre Southern Railhead site.

Newsom vetoes rail oversight bill after watchdog’s scathing audit

Barnini Chakraborty October 2, 2026 1:02 pm

In this Sept. 30, 1971 file photo, New York lawyer Roy Cohn, one-time counsel for the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Communist-hunting investigation, appears in Austin, Texas. Cohn is the subject of a documentary “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn." (AP Photo/Ted Powers, File)

A captivating new biography of the flawed fixer Roy Cohn

Carson Becker September 27, 2026 5:45 am

Sen. Jon Kyl

Jon Kyl, 1942-2026

Daniel Ross Goodman September 25, 2026 5:05 am

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, left, and City Councilmember John Lee arrive at a vigil for the victims of Tuesday's fatal SUV-Metro bus collision and the subsequent crash of a TV news helicopter that was covering it in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles with the sun shining behind them.

Bass trailing progressive challenger by double digits in new LA mayoral poll

Emily Hallas September 23, 2026 12:26 pm

Hasan Piker attends a press conference during day three of Web Summit Qatar 2026 at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center. (Noushad Variyattiyakkal/SOPA Images via Newscom)

Piker says Middle East would be more secure if Iran had a nuclear weapon

Emily Hallas September 18, 2026 11:46 am

White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks speaks as President Donald Trump listens at an event for the signing of the GENIUS Act, a bill that regulates stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, in the East Room of the White House, Friday, July 18, 2025, in Washington.

David Sacks paints AI panic as political ploy for major players

Emily Hallas September 16, 2026 4:47 pm

Evan Barker's post-DNC digital confessional (via TikTok)

Revealing the Democrats’ rot, from the inside

Madeline Fry Schultz September 13, 2026 6:45 am