On Saturday, August 15, the New York Times editorial board published an op-ed noting that the Republicans are trying to hide the cuts they have made to health care in the U.S.

From Friday through Sunday, Trump continued his now-habitual weekend flooding of social media with fantasies that he is smart, beloved, and powerful.

Today Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center board voted to put Trump’s name back on the Kennedy Center, this time in letters saying the building was “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J.

The Trump administration is trying to rewrite the history of the United States.

“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S.

Yesterday President Donald J.

Exactly five years ago, on July 15, 2021, I wrote:

In August 1870 a U.S.

Today began with yet another demonstration of the fact that the U.S.

And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed...

And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed...

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Today, strategic studies scholar Phillips P.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a metaphor for the Trump presidency.

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On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress resolved “[t]hat six companies of expert riflemen, be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia; that each company cons...

On June 8, 1789, Representative James Madison of Virginia stood up to address the House of Representatives in order to introduce a series of amendments to the U.S.

Meet the Press today aired an interview host Kristen Welker taped Friday with President Donald J.

A brief conversation on the way to breakfast

On June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine, stood up against Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin and his supporters, who were undermining American democracy in a c...

Yesterday, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) along with demonstrators outside Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed detention center in Newark, New Jer...

Last Friday, just before the long holiday weekend, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard resigned, effective as of June 30, citing her husband’s recent cancer diagnosis as the factor that fo...

Congress left for the holiday weekend a day early today after a number of Republican members of Congress appear to have mutinied against President Donald J.

Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges and former U.S.

Yesterday the Department of Justice announced it is creating a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate what it calls victims of the Department of Justice under former President Joe Bide...

Thousands of people gathered today on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to engage in an eight-hour taxpayer-funded evangelical worship event to “rededicate” the nation to Christianity.

Seventy-two years ago tomorrow, on May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously decided Brown v.

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Two weeks ago today, the U.S.

There were two very different celebrations in Russia and in Hungary yesterday.

Late yesterday, Republicans in the Senate released their funding request for the budget reconciliation bill.

It has not been a banner day for members of the Trump administration.

Late yesterday, Republicans in the Senate released their funding request for the budget reconciliation bill.

According to a new Washington Post–ABC News–Ipsos poll, fifty-nine percent of Americans believe President Donald J.

Late on Friday night, President Donald J.

Today is the deadline for President Donald J.

I will have plenty to say about the Supreme Court’s decision today in Callais v.

There are signs the political game has changed in the United States since Hungarian voters rejected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s leadership on Sunday, April 12.

On April 12, the day of Hungary’s parliamentary elections, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) posted on social media that it was closely watching the election and stood firmly behind ...

At 8:03 this morning, Easter Sunday, President Donald J.

On April 4, 1949, representatives from twelve countries in Europe and North America—Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom,...

Today, for the first time in U.S.

Lower courts have unanimously ruled that Trump's order violates the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.

At 4:11 this morning, President Donald J.

Shortly after the close of the U.S.