Maryland Democrats can breathe a sigh of relief after the blue state’s popular former two-term Republican governor, Larry Hogan, announced Tuesday he would not mount a challenge to Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) this fall. Hogan, who served as governor between 2015 and 2023 and lost a high-profile Senate bid in 2024, announced via op-ed in […]

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is unveiling her $260 billion state budget on Tuesday, an ambitious proposal that includes a tax on nicotine products like Zyn but skips an income tax hike. The budget proposal signals Hochul’s defiance of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who wants to tax the rich as part of his economic […]

Former Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC), the front-runner in the Democratic primary for North Carolina’s open Senate seat, was successfully lobbied in 2019 by an anti-deportation group with financial ties to a dark-money hub. After a pressure campaign from the group, Cooper rejected legislation that would have helped immigration authorities track illegal immigrants who had been […]

The United States and Europe are engaged in a dispute over the Trump administration’s desire to “own” Greenland, taking attention away from Ukraine as it suffers through another brutal winter of Russian troops targeting its infrastructure. Leaders from around the world, excluding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, descended on Davos, Switzerland, this week for the World […]