Of all the overseas leaders avidly watching the U.S. election results, the two happiest were probably Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. As we peer into a murky domestic and foreign policy future under a 47th president who yearns to rule as a strongman, it's important to understand what this means.

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It may seem like the worst punishment for losing, but the reality is that it comes with the job.

So, when Kamala Harris, of all people, stands before a joint session of Congress and bangs the gavel certifying the electoral votes that will make Donald Trump president — again — she’ll be fulfilling a constitutional obligation.

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U.S. bond markets have had a minor meltdown since former President Donald Trump pulled ahead in prediction markets and then won a second term Tuesday, putting upward pressure on mortgages and other household borrowing costs.

If the move continues, it could be a major source of disappointment for voters who trusted Trump to improve housing ...Read more

As California reexamines the impacts of criminal justice reforms like Proposition 47 and the push for new measures under Proposition 36, the focus remains on how to balance public safety with the rights of justice-impacted individuals. But what’s often left out of the conversation is what happens after incarceration.

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Donald Trump’s return to the White House means that one of his signature issues will soon return to the center of Washington’s economic policy agenda: tariffs. And while the evidence of their harm continues to grow, which is why economists like me oppose them, economists like me should also admit that tariffs probably matter less than we’d...Read more

Last month, the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors known for their powerful global activism. These survivors, hibakusha in Japanese, have dedicated their lives to ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

But to many Americans, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan are still a hazy part of ...Read more

Adam Schiff — "sleazebag," "low life," "little pencil neck," to use some of the pungent ways Donald Trump describes him — is taking the high road, turning the other cheek and generally being the better man by ignoring all that and promising to do whatever he can to work and thrive in a MAGA-fied Washington, D.C.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — How did we allow a convicted felon, compulsive liar, adjudicated sexual abuser and wannabe dictator to be elected our nation's president? Three words: Democrats botched it.

It shouldn't have been even close, running against a man with his disqualifications. And, in fact, it wasn't. Republican Donald Trump won with ease. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump made hundreds of promises during his campaign, including dozens he vowed to implement on "Day One" of his administration. At the top of the list: closing the U.S. border with Mexico, mass deportations, increased oil and gas production, and retribution against his political opponents.

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It’s a quirk of Missouri politics that the same solid majority of voters who can’t bring themselves to cast a vote for any politician with a “D” next to their name will turn around and vote, again and again, for ballot measures instituting Democratic policies that are opposed by most elected Republicans.

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The election of Donald J. Trump as the 47th president of the United States hurt my soul.

I thought America was serious about her ideals. She’s not. I thought she learned her lesson after Trump was elected in 2016. She didn’t.

America reelected a convicted felon. America reelected a man who urged his supporters to bum-rush the Capitol. ...Read more

On the eve of Election Day, anthropology professor Alexander Hinton talked to me from a Trump rally, where he was already convinced the Republican candidate would win. He’d been observing the MAGA movement in a professional capacity, attending more Trump rallies than he can count, and he says Donald Trump’s supporters display an unusual ...Read more

In winning the solid majority of the voting public, Donald Trump would have added to that total plenty of non-citizen, undocumented immigrants had they been able to cast ballots (and no, there’s no evidence that non-citizens voted) because he pledged his deportation plans would ship out the bad people, the murderers, rapists and drug lords.

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Senate Banking Committee Chair Sen. Sherrod Brown has taken on all manner of powerful lobbies and industries over the courts of his career. Now, it seems like he picked his final fight with an effort to enact oversight on cryptocurrency companies. These in turn poured $40 million into the campaign of his GOP opponent Bernie Moreno, who defeated ...Read more

As the dust settles on the election, the pro-choice majority of Americans have spoken. Voters in New York, despite a swing towards Donald Trump, overwhelmingly approved ballot Proposal 1, enshrining in the state Constitution a right to exercise reproductive freedoms, despite somewhat being vaguely worded and confusing.

While the state already ...Read more

Economic anxiety motivated many Americans on Tuesday, and the result was a dominating performance by Donald Trump and a resounding repudiation of Bidenomics. Not surprisingly, markets soared in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s election.

The carnage of 9% inflation under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris left voters of ...Read more

Is ranked-choice voting a fad — like the pet rock or streaking — destined to fade into the fog of history? It appears that way, if election results from across the country are any indication.

On Tuesday, Nevadans by a 54-46 margin turned away Question 3, a state constitutional amendment that would have mandated open primaries and imposed a ...Read more

If ever a U.S. president needed the checks and balances that the founders established, it's law-breaking, oath-violating Donald Trump.

Yet those checks by Congress and the Supreme Court will hardly be a check at all once Trump is back in power. The former and future president has shaped each of those institutions in his image.

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In 2000, the blame fell on third-party candidates. In 2010 and 2014, it was low voter turnout. In 2016, the party pointed fingers at Green Party nominee Jill Stein, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Russian interference. This time, the focus shifted to disaffected minority voters, specifically Black male voters, and Arab voters in Michigan. At every ...Read more