Jimmy Carter turns 100 and his hometown is ringing in the milestone
PLAINS, Ga. — Signs that read “Happy 100th Birthday Mr. President!” dot lawns. The local general store is stocking up on its famous peanut butter ice cream. And the population…
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What Vance, Walz need to do to win Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate
The first and only vice-presidential debate is Tuesday. Republican nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) and Democratic nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will face off in person, and it could be…
As Israel escalates in Lebanon, U.S. influence is limited
First Israel ignored a U.S.-led effort to impose a cease-fire in its escalating war against Hezbollah. Then it killed the militant movement’s leader, Hasan Nasrallah, in a massive attack, taking…
Number of Arizona voters missing citizenship proof doubles
PHOENIX — A failure to document the citizenship status of Arizona voters is now estimated to affect as many as 218,000 people — more than double what state election officials…
U.S. sends more troops, warplanes to Middle East as bulwark against Iran
The Pentagon will deploy a few thousand additional U.S. troops and more fighter jets to the Middle East, defense officials said Monday, as part of the Biden administration’s scramble to…
Union members could be big for Trump. He keeps complicating that.
If Donald Trump is elected president on Nov. 5, it’s possible we’ll be talking a lot about union households in the days afterward. About 1 in 5 voters tend to…
A review of what Elon Musk’s hyperventilating immigration post got wrong
Elon Musk’s politics are not subtle. Since buying Twitter and reshaping it in his image, he has regularly posted or reposted commentary critical of immigration to the United States. Particularly…
Polls show big increase in Republicans planning to vote for abortion rights
The politics of abortion rights have shifted massively toward Democrats since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Nothing makes that clearer than the fact that the Republican…
Trump, Harris venture into the politics of Hurricane Helene
The two candidates for president ventured carefully into the politics of Hurricane Helene on Monday, with Vice President Kamala Harris canceling West Coast campaign stops to attend a storm briefing…
The right’s newest false outrage centers on misrepresented federal data
A few days before the 2016 presidential election, a deeply weird mini-controversy emerged: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton or her staff were maybe Satanists? The path to that conclusion was a…