This is now the second year in a row that Trump has attempted a pocket rescission. Last year, he used the tool to get out of ...

President Donald Trump escalated his war with the press on Friday, announcing on Truth Social that he was banning three news outlets — CNN, MS NOW, and Politico — from the White House. Correspondents ...

Which modern political figure said this while promoting a piece of election legislation: “They know the only way they can win is to cheat.” The answer is Jaime Harrison, then the chairman of the ...

With the 100th day of Donald Trump’s second term in the rearview mirror, a new crop of media stories is starting to emerge: the tale of the regretful Trump voter. MSNBC: “One month into Trump’s second ...

There’s a comedian named Joe Zimmerman who has a bit on — of all things — the U.S. tax system. The video is below, but it goes like this: My biggest fear about the government is just: taxes. I worry ...

For ten hours and 26 minutes on Tuesday, the world held its breath. President Donald Trump had already spent the last several days espousing some of the most apocalyptic rhetoric of his administration ...

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. In a newsletter last week, I laid out my standard for when I’ll use that label: if the executive ...

But first, let’s walk through a bit of the last year (and the last weekend) together: Back in April 2016, the Boston Globe’s opinion section published a satirical front page imagining what the first ...

The big news from Congress yesterday was the House passage of a continuing resolution (CR) that would keep the government open through the end of September, staving off a Friday shutdown deadline. I ...

I often hear from readers asking why Democrats aren’t doing more to stop the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Republican megabill that contains the bulk of President Trump’s legislative agenda, ...

Since the government shut down on October 1, the U.S. Senate has held 63 roll call votes. Senators may still be struggling to strike a spending deal, but you can’t say they haven’t been working on a ...

Gerald Ford faced a dilemma. Five days after he ascended to the vice presidency, lawmakers unveiled a bill to rename a federal building in Ford’s hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in his honor.