Why Mike Johnson’s shutdown strategy is reaching its limit
This is now the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history. Democrats are debating how much to give in on Obamacare subsidies to bring the House GOP back to DC.
Halligan keeps stumbling early in her attempt to prosecute Comey on Trump’s behalf
The Lindsey Halligan-led prosecution of James Comey faced its latest rebuke Wednesday, when a federal judge said the government had taken an “indict first, investigate second” approach.
The Trump administration’s war on drugs is turning out to be worse than the first one
President Trump’s reported plans to send U.S. troops into Mexico to target drug cartels is part of a new war on drugs that be at least as bad as the first one.
Republicans are targeting Mamdani the way they went after AOC — and it won’t work
Republicans have long tried to make a single Democrat the face of the party. They’ve got a new target in the mayor-elect of New York City.
Democrats’ biggest election winners knew how to reject anti-trans attacks
Republicans repeated Trump’s anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.
Democrats won big on election night. Now they’re wondering if they can win the shutdown.
A day after Democrats swept a series of off-year elections on Tuesday, Democratic senators have a complicated choice on the shutdown.