The nomination of former Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general sharpened focus on President-elect Donald Trump’s earlier call for the incoming Republican-controlled...
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) won’t assume his new role as Senate majority leader until the next Congress is seated Jan. 3. But he’s already being put to the test. President-elect Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising Cabinet nominees, including former Rep. Matt Gaetz, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Fox News host Pete Hegseth, and ex-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy […]
President-elect Donald Trump brought his populist supporters into the Republican Party and now would like to include them in his administration, but not everyone in the GOP is happy about it. The MAGA movement contains some people who are fervent Republicans but might deviate from what was the party line as recently as the George […]
If presidential elections are political Super Bowls, then we can’t forget that after a short break, we’re thrown straight into the next event: the president’s...
Tech mogul Elon Musk has done more to safeguard our free speech rights than anyone else for generations. For that, following his inauguration in January...
Our politics rely heavily on presumption. We presume how people might vote and what they think based on certain characteristics. We thereby make assumptions about...
Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan is the face of the “hipster antitrust” movement, but she’s also got friends in the MAGA movement. Khan, 35, is the youngest person ever to lead the FTC. As a Biden appointee, she is unlikely to stay on once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, though her aggressive stance toward […]
President-elect Donald Trump continued his whirlwind of Cabinet pick announcements on Thursday afternoon, tapping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, ran for president in the 2024 Democratic primary but later ended his bid to run as an independent candidate. […]
President-elect Donald Trump will begin his second nonconsecutive term with Republican control of both chambers of Congress, including a 53-47 Senate majority. However, the House Republican majority is likely no higher than a narrow 221-214, or perhaps a seat more. Still, the former and future president’s victories in both the Electoral College and the popular […]
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California — Finally, an election result Ronald Reagan would recognize — or at least something close to it. The late Republican president and GOP candidates up and down the ballot once dominated Orange County, California, elections. Reagan won nearly 75% of the vote there during his 1984 reelection landslide, and Republican presidential nominees […]
