When a president's approval hits 31% with 66% disapproval, the math of governance stops working. NBC News reports 71% of adults believe the country is on the wrong track. The numbers do not care about spin.
By Dana Whitfield ·
As voters turn the midterms into a referendum on Donald Trump, Republicans face a nationalized backlash that only divided government and institutional balance can resolve.
By Dana Whitfield ·
President Donald Trump has a penchant for treating the U.S.
By Emilio Quesada ·
The problem with treating an existential risk as a political football is that the ball eventually pops.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Counting people is not a neutral act of bookkeeping; it is an act of recognition. When a state decides who exists and who is invisible, it is not practicing "administration"—it is practicing power.
By Sophie Naimi ·
The American Airlines Center in Dallas has become a theater for the economically illiterate.
By Klaus Berger ·
There is a particular kind of silence that follows a leader who has decided his own peace is more precious than his people’s safety.
By Caroline Ashford ·
The whole spectacle played out on a Tuesday, culminating in a 370-48 House vote. A temporary budget bill passed, keeping the federal government funded through December 11th.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
The numbers are clear enough for any man who has watched Main Street get choked by federal overreach to see.
By Grant Colby ·
The American political machine, I confess, often feels as polluted as the Mediterranean air after a summer heatwave—thick with exhaust fumes and old lies.
By Sophie Naimi ·
The suspension of border construction in Big Bend National Park by the Trump administration is not a victory for national security, but an operational hiccup—a moment where…
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The nominating process for an ambassadorial post is supposed to be a matter of statecraft—a careful calibration of diplomatic skill, regional knowledge, and strategic alignment…
By Emilio Quesada ·
The American presidency, it seems, is suffering from an acute case of architectural entitlement.
By Tom Beckwith ·
You learn early in life that if you want to keep the lights on—if you want to pass ground to your child without selling the deed—you have to talk about what matters.
By Ruth Behrens ·
The sheer ambition of this latest crypto legislation—the so-called Clarity Act—is breathtakingly flawed.
By Adele Rutherford ·
There are moments when the machinery of power grinds against its own legal framework, and what emerges is not progress, but a spectacular collision of ego and statute.
By Aoife Gallagher ·