Democrats capped off a year of encouraging election results on Tuesday with victory in a closely watched Iowa special election. That result, coupled with gains earlier this year, as well as historic trends, points to them enjoying wider success in the 2026 midterm elections. However, strategists in both parties have cautioned against reading too much […]

TEL AVIV, Israel – President Donald Trump’s willingness to sit down with any world leader, even dictators, has allies, such as Israel, on edge.  Trump’s untraditional approach to diplomacy has been criticized for rewarding bad behavior from the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the pair meeting last summer in Alaska, to North Korean […]

Few names have accrued as much infamy among Washington, D.C., conservatives as Arabella Advisors. The consulting firm, which, until recently, ran a sprawling network of liberal nonprofit organizations, has acquired a similar status to the likes of megadonors George Soros and Bill Gates in certain right-wing circles. Among other things, conservatives accused the consultancy of […]

The Supreme Court and lower federal courts had many clashes in 2025, highlighting tensions between federal judges and the courts above them. In an eventful year in the courts, the record number of stays the Supreme Court granted on its emergency docket fueled clashes between the high court and lower courts in hotly contested legal […]