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President Trump says he doesn’t care about the midterm elections. He says he doesn’t think much about Americans’ economic ...

The three candidates New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed in New York won their congressional primaries this week.

President Donald Trump’s tumbling approval ratings are raising the odds that the 2026 midterm elections will extend one of the most powerful trends in 21st-century American politics. The president’s ...

It’s not their war. But it’s becoming their political and economic nightmare. World leaders who opposed the US-Israeli attack on Iran are being torn between Donald Trump’s ire at their failure to join ...

One of Donald Trump’s former top officials has pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information. John Bolton, who served ...

Political violence in the United States may feel uniquely alarming right now, but it is not unprecedented, according to Laura Appleman, the Van Winkle Melton Professor of Law and University Research ...

Writer Jeff Sharlet responds to the shooting event at White House correspondents’ dinner this weekend. We discuss the motivations of Cole Allen, the man accused of breaching security in an attempt to ...

This Pew Research Center study goes beyond Americans’ partisan attachments and vote choices to explore the values and attitudes that underlie the political landscape and the Republican and Democratic ...