Nancy Mace: Why The Republican House Isn’t Working
The system in the House promotes control by party leaders over accountability and achievement.
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The system in the House promotes control by party leaders over accountability and achievement.
A five-year-old photo of agents kneeling at a D.C. protest after George Floyd’s killing led to the firing of about 16 agents.
Andrew Ferguson has used the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection mandate to investigate issues important to President Trump and h...
President Trump expressed his love of “Phantom of the Opera,” got in more digs at Jimmy Kimmel and joked — perhaps — about adding his name t...
Melania Trump went minimal, Gloria Gaynor dressed to shine, but the star of the night was the president.
Plus, the social changes sweeping Iran.
As a lawyer for a conservative think tank, Ms. Bondi, now the attorney general, filed a Supreme Court brief last year saying service members...
Past presidents have attended the marquee event, but on Sunday Mr. Trump will be the first to host it, putting his cultural takeover of Wash...
The Treasury Secretary said on Sunday he recently shed his holdings to comply with his federal ethics agreement.
A former secretary of homeland security on the illegality of Trump’s boat strikes.
What a special House election just told us.
After my father-in-law died, we found something interesting in his files.
President Trump is shifting from discussion of the long-lasting competition among the world’s biggest economies and nuclear powers.
President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to oust a Federal Trade Commission leader offer parallels to the current fight over President Trump’s action...
A New York Times review of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s actions on immigration showed that they created an opening for a more aggressive...
Not too much religious moralism in the administration, but too little.
Until the court imposes limits, the administration will keep acting as if there are none.
In the wake of the National Guard shooting, the Trump administration has temporarily frozen major pathways for many migrants to obtain legal...
Top Republicans have said they want to produce a proposal in short order to counter Democrats pressing for an extension of health care subsi...
We are seeing an intentional effort from justices to rebalance the separation of powers in the federal government.
President Trump’s new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding...
Some activists have lashed out, in a reprise of the backlash over the unsuccessful effort by Trump appointees to shut down the Epstein inves...
The administration asked the justices to uphold an executive order ending birthright citizenship after lower courts ruled it violated the Co...
Once nativism escalates, it’s hard to stop.
The arrest came after years of false leads and speculation over who planted the bombs near the Capitol before the Jan. 6 riot.
We need to question the strikes’ legality. But we also need to see how they fit into the Trump administration’s larger effort to change Amer...
The shift, while small, is notable after months of stability in President Trump’s approval rating.
As Washington made combating fentanyl a priority, cocaine trafficking has surged. Nowhere have the ripples been felt like in Ecuador, where...
Gianni Infantino, head of soccer’s governing body, has been ingratiating himself with the president to help ensure a successful 2026 World C...
Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all...
After a judge dismissed the Trump administration’s first attempt to indict the attorney general of New York State, a new grand jury effort f...
President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.
Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to ga...
Some of the state’s Republican leaders appear in no rush to draw a new map as they grapple with political and legal questions amid internal...
Democrats won an agreement for a floor showdown after the shutdown, but consensus still eludes the Senate. Will Republicans pay a political...
Republicans and Democrats released a two-year plan to scale back and extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, but it faces long odds i...
About half of people covered under the Affordable Care Act say that if their health costs spike, it will have a “major impact” on how they v...
Plus, the race to save music history.
The president will meet with the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to advance a deal meant to end a long war in eastern...
Bipartisan congressional oversight is underway, but for now is focusing on narrow details about one missile instead of broader legal issues.
Bipartisan congressional oversight is underway, but for now is focusing on narrow details about one missile instead of broader legal issues.
More than a year before the Trump administration granted asylum to the Afghan immigrant, the volunteer’s emails raised concerns that he was...
President Trump’s economic policies and artificial intelligence were among the central topics at the gathering of business and political lea...
The billionaire real estate developer’s relationship with Mr. Epstein is in the spotlight, with the release of emails and images of Mr. Epst...
The president used the latest pardon announcement to attack his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Even if the wisdom of releasing the files is a nuanced issue, the president’s behavior has been indefensible.
In publicizing the photos and videos, Democrats in Congress appeared to be intensifying pressure on the Justice Department to release its fi...
President Trump referred to Somali immigrants as “garbage” during a White House meeting on Tuesday.
In the right hands, the pardon power is too strong. In the wrong hands, it is disastrous.