With time running out in the 2024 presidential election and early voting underway across much of the country, then-Sen. JD Vance refused to answer questions about who was the rightful winner of the 2020 race. The Ohio

In the months leading up to Election Day 2024, when Donald Trump was ostensibly focused on his candidacy, the Republican launched a dizzying merchandising campaign, pitching everything from Trump-branded watches to silver Trump commemorative coins, batches of

One of the many problems with the policy surrounding Donald Trump’s trade tariffs is there doesn’t appear to be much of a policy. The president certainly makes all kinds of announcements, but in literally dozens of instances,

After Donald Trump launched an unprecedented offensive against prominent law firms, four of the firms chose to fight back against the president’s authoritarian-style assault. Given that the quartet filed separate lawsuits against the White House, and they’re

Partway through Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia focused attention on an underappreciated story: just how weak the U.S. economy has been since Donald Trump

Around this time eight years ago, Donald Trump attended Bastille Day celebrations in France in 2017, which the president apparently loved — in part because it included a military parade along the Champs-Élysées. “It was one of

Donald Trump’s agenda on trade tariffs has long rested on a shaky legal foundation, predicated in part on the idea that there’s an “emergency” that allows the president to unilaterally impose economic penalties based on nothing but

In recent days, Russia has launched large-scale drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian targets, and according to officials in Kyiv, the latest offensive is the largest aerial assault on the country since the war began. The developments

Donald Trump’s list of controversial pardons was scandalous long before this week, but the president’s abuses reached a new level over the last few days.On Monday afternoon, for example, Trump pardoned former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins,

Ordinarily, Donald Trump isn’t the kind of guy who’s overly concerned with evidence. The president relies on preconceived ideas, assorted conspiracy theories, rumors he’s heard via conservative media and routine assumptions he creates out of whole cloth,