Four former presidents expressed confidence that the United States’s best days are ahead, because of democracy’s “self-correcting” power.  In an NBC News interview that aired on Tuesday, former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden shared a message to the country in light of the nation’s semiquincentennial. They sat down for […]

Europe’s highest court has declared Hungary cannot maintain policies meant to curb the “promotion of homosexuality” among young people. Outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was defeated in a national election earlier this month, propagated the policies in 2021 as “stricter measures against individuals convicted of pedophilia.” These policies have been expanded into sweeping bans […]

Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s pick for chairman of the Federal Reserve, said in his confirmation hearing that Trump never asked him to commit to any interest rate decisions during his vetting process. Warsh, a 56-year-old former Fed governor, testified on Tuesday before the Senate banking committee, where he faced questions about Fed independence and […]

Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. We spent Monday sitting in various leather armchairs at the hotel formerly known as the Trump Hotel, watching the White House get the old team back together ahead of the midterm elections. Meanwhile, the administration firings continue. So who is next? For two hours, the brightest campaign brains […]