The left gushed over Kamala Harris’ performance during last week’s debate with Donald Trump. The enthusiasm is largely justified.

But I’m having trouble suppressing a feeling of mild disappointment. Could a better debater have more effectively called out Trump on some of the things he said during the debate that are simply not true? In ...Read more

One of the pleasures of last week's presidential debate was watching Vice President Kamala Harris deftly filet former President Donald Trump over his affinity for dictators such as Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

"It is absolutely well known that these dictators and autocrats are rooting for you to be president again ...Read more

Lucky for the Republicans who run the House, few Americans are paying attention to their antics of late, given the focus on the presidential race. Here's what they're up to: busily exemplifying the definition of insanity — doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

"Led" by Speaker "MAGA Mike" Johnson, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a U.S. presidential race that features a deeply polarized electorate and a sharp contrast between the two candidates, most voters have known for months which side they are on.

Then there are people like Faith.

A middle-aged manager of a substance abuse treatment center in southern Pennsylvania, she voted for Donald Trump in...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Here's one election prediction from a nonpartisan expert: Californians will be so enthused about Kamala Harris they could vote in record numbers.

A huge Democratic turnout, of course, would help the party's down-ticket candidates, especially in pivotal congressional races that could determine control of the U.S. House of...Read more

Violence has no place in politics in America and yet here we are again, dealing with the possibility of another attempt on Donald Trump’s life. The FBI said on Sunday that it was investigating what appeared to be an attempted assassination as the former president played golf at Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach.

Details of ...Read more

“They’re eating the cats” may be the perfect encapsulation of Donald Trump’s brilliance and flaws.

The former president uttered that line during Tuesday’s presidential debate. He was referring to claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating people’s pets. He also said, “They’re eating the dogs.”

Similar ...Read more

House Speaker Mike Johnson has continued the proud tradition of GOP speakers setting the country on course to another disastrous government shutdown by pulling voting on a temporary spending bill that included the nonstarter SAVE Act, a bill to require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration in federal elections.

That ...Read more

At last week’s presidential debate, Donald Trump brought up a chilling scene: Haitian migrants roaming the city of Springfield, Ohio, terrorizing the local population and eating their pets. It was a message previously spread by his vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, and other prominent GOP politicians.

One problem: it’s not true, ...Read more

The 2024 election will almost certainly come down to Pennsylvania. But nothing is certain in life, and it’s not too soon — forgive me — to look forward to the 2028 election, when warmer, faster-growing, less-unionized states are key Electoral College battlegrounds.

In fact, according to Nate Silver’s forecasts, the state that is second ...Read more

The Tyreek Hill rough takedown case is still unfolding, but one thing has become clear: From the moment Miami-Dade police officers yanked the Dolphins star player by the neck from his gull-wing McLaren and forced him to the ground last Sunday, a routine traffic stop in South Florida became part of the painful, national discussion about driving ...Read more

School choice remains on the roll, and opponents are grasping at any implement to try and arrest its progress.

This past school year, America passed the million student milestone, with more than 1 million students participating in a program that provides funding for them to attend private school. More than one third of all students in the ...Read more

The Tyreek Hill rough takedown case is still unfolding, but one thing has become clear: From the moment Miami-Dade police officers yanked the Dolphins star player by the neck from his gull-wing McLaren and forced him to the ground last Sunday, a routine traffic stop in South Florida became part of the painful, national discussion about driving ...Read more

There was one moment in last week's presidential debate that crystallized why former President Donald Trump must never again direct U.S. foreign policy: his reaction to Vice President Kamala Harris' dig that "world leaders are laughing" at him.

"Let me just tell you about world leaders," Trump instantly shot back. "Viktor Orbán, one of the ...Read more

For the second time this summer, Americans have witnessed a presidential campaign debate unlike anything we’ve seen since the dawning of the Television Age.

Oddly, those unprecedented yet quite different debates ended with a common result: Both times, it was the old guy who did himself in.

Last June’s debate was the saddest in presidential...Read more

Because much of what Donald Trump says is unhinged and histrionic, it’s tempting to dismiss all of it as bunk. And yet the former and perhaps future president has a populist knack for sounding alarms that resonate with the zeitgeist — for example, with growing anxiety about World War III and nuclear Armageddon.

“We're a failing nation,”...Read more

Climate change is the political equivalent of a kid claiming, “A dog ate my homework.” It allows leaders to evade responsibility for what they can control.

On Wednesday, smoke covered the sky above Las Vegas. It obscured views of the Strip. It was so bad that the Clark County School District canceled nonessential outdoor activities. Air ...Read more

Health care is an issue with life-or-death consequences that affects every person in America. It’s foundational to a productive, satisfying life. But so far, it has been neglected this election cycle. Immigration, inflation, abortion restrictions and wars in Gaza and Ukraine have drowned out discussions of expanding Medicare and shoring up ...Read more

For American households, the good news is that inflation rates have largely returned to pre-pandemic levels. Perhaps most importantly, economists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture predict that gains in food price will continue to moderate. Indeed, data compiled by Adobe Inc. shows that online grocery prices fell 3.7% in August from a month ...Read more

Imagine you borrow $1 million from me, and then I burn down your house and steal your car so you can’t drive to work anymore. But then I offer you a one-year moratorium on debt payments to try to get your life back together while insisting the debt still be paid in full with the deferred interest tacked on to the principal.

On a scale from 1 ...Read more