ArticleLet’s take DSA influ­ence on midterms with a sip of tea

Recent primary elec­tion wins by some very pro­gress­ive Demo­crats, includ­ing a few self-described demo­cratic social­ists, have rekindled a cau­tion­ary tale, com­par­ing that to polit­ical insur­gent Repub­lic­ans in 2010 who became the Tea Party...

ArticleTrump golf club man­ager set up Reflect­ing Pool renov­a­tion

The per­son who set up the botched renov­a­tion of the Lin­coln Memorial Reflect­ing Pool in Wash­ing­ton is the man­ager at Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump’s golf club in Bed­min­ster, New Jer­sey, accord­ing to an invest­ig­a­tion by The New York...

ArticleSupreme Court faces plea to block Trump mail-in rules

Less than 90 days out from the midterms, elec­tion offi­cials are plead­ing with the Supreme Court to block the Trump admin­is­tra­tion from mak­ing changes that would allow the U.S. Postal Ser­vice to decide who gets mail-in bal­lots. And after...

ArticleU.S. appeals court blocks Trump's $400M White House ball­room

A fed­eral appeals court on Fri­day ruled that U.S. Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump’s $400 mil­lion ball­room at the White House is unlaw­ful and blocked fur­ther work on it. In a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Cir­cuit ruled Con­gress has...

ArticleRul­ing affirms descrip­tion of voter ID effort

A state judge Thursday rejec­ted a chal­lenge to how Cali­for­nia Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta’s office sum­mar­ized a strict new voter ID meas­ure on Novem­ber bal­lots — rul­ing that the sum­mary lan­guage accur­ately describes the meas­ure’s effects were it...

ArticleHong hits a nerve in Dems’ primary

Wis­con­sin Demo­crat Francesca Hong is press­ing the reset but­ton ahead of the Aug. 11 gubernat­orial primary after leav­ing the door open to can­celing Thanks­giv­ing in an Aug. 3 CNN inter­view. The 37-year-old state legis­lator, a demo­cratic...

ArticleFired Miami pro­sec­utor sues DOJ, say­ing his free-speech rights were viol­ated

ArticleSome con­ser­vat­ives back Ossoff in GA

Three months before voters hit the polls, voices across Geor­gia are chim­ing in for their can­did­ates in a cru­cial Sen­ate race between incum­bent Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Demo­crat, and Rep. Mike Collins, a Repub­lican. And they’re not all stick­ing to...