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Max Burns, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
Redefining citizenship is a key priority of Trump’s second administration. It’s also one of the first things any authoritarian movement does upon...
Democrats were once masters of the populist message. If they want to rebuild after last month’s electoral disaster, they’ll need to reconnect with...
Trump faces the choice of looking like a failure for promising tariffs he can’t deliver or enacting tariffs that financially wreck his voter base....
Democrats’ post-election hangover won’t be quick in dissipating.
The election is over. What matters now is how the Trump administration governs.
Our democratic institutions are not ready for what comes next. Neither are the American people.
Trump’s hate-fest in New York is another warning to voters about the grim future he offers the American people. If Trump prevails next week, his...
We must choose between the Constitution and a second Trump administration. Republicans have made clear we cannot have both.
There’s no indication that Donald Trump or the GOP have learned their lesson about the perils of discount organizing. That’s good news for...
Musk may be happy to play Trump’s clown on TV, but his latest schemes are nothing to laugh about.
For 90 minutes JD Vance did his best to stuff the worst of Trumpism’s political extremes into a suit of traditional Republican respectability.
Once an undercard event, this cycle’s VP debate has taken on unusual importance for the dwindling number of undecided voters.
In 2016 Trump found plenty of voters willing to buy into his message of “American carnage.” That’s not proving so easy this time around.
Donald Trump has once again reactivated his sizable corps of yes-men and yes-women, to re-inflate his fragile ego.
The big Trump-Harris debate was a very weird night.
Here are the biggest issues Trump and Harris will need to address on Tuesday night, and why their responses could once again reshape the 2024...
Ukraine’s foreign minister Dymtro Kuleba resigned on Wednesday, signaling a major reshuffling of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s...
Next week’s ABC News debate takes place in a political landscape that has shifted dramatically since Donald Trump’s last head-to-head, with...
This is what real leadership looks like.
So much for The Trump Show.
Voters have seen Trump’s politics of rage and division before, and they are eager for something — anything — new.
Voters have seen Trump’s politics of rage and division before, and they are eager for something — anything — new.
Kamala Harris has selected Tim Walz as her running mate, uniting progressives and conservatives in Washington, and providing a vision of the...
JD Vance somehow managed to merge everything voters found unlikeable about today’s far-right political elite into one candidate.
The media and Republican political leaders should treat concerns about Trump’s advanced age every bit as seriously as they did in Biden’s case.
For the good of our country, our political leaders must stop this lethal rhetoric.
we’re a little over halfway through the year, so it’s time to take a look back at some of the good (and bad) predictions I made back in the frosty...
In tonight's debate, President Biden showcased something his advisers have spent much of his campaign trying to avoid: his age.
November will be a moment of immense reckoning for a Republican Party fixated on restricting the freedom of American women. It can’t come soon...
Donald Trump is facing something new: accountability.
Requiring Justice Samuel Alito to explain himself under oath is the only way for our government to begin the long and difficult process of restoring...
In their rush to respond to polling, the Biden administration has instead played directly into the GOP narrative.
For years centrist Democrats shared Hillary Clinton’s conciliatory view, and so the party raced to the right in an effort to find “common...
Voter disengagement is a clear sign that regular Americans don’t feel served by their current political leaders.
Biden’s campaign is still searching for the message that will keep the party’s fraying 2022 coalition united.
If Biden wants young voters to turn out like they did in 2020, he’ll need to challenge his own thinking about why those voters have become...
Our elected officials need to start talking with the American people instead of at them.
Whatever self-destruction the House Republicans have planned, Johnson should follow the example of his predecessor McCarthy and play no role in it.
More than any other issue, it will be abortion that sets fire to the GOP’s 2024 ambitions. Good.
The World Central Kitchen debacle should give the State Department pause to ask whether continued support for Israel’s war advances American...
If Biden wants to capitalize on his opponent’s troubles, he’ll double down on campaigning while Trump is tied up in court. In a race that could be...
The group’s 0-for-13 track record at candidate recruitment is a brutal admission that, whatever its flashy marketing may suggest, few knowledgeable...
The MAGA movement, once so skilled at enforcing loyalty, is cracking. What’s left of the Republican Party is cracking with it. The sooner it...
flailing to address a boiling voter rebellion on abortion, Biden’s focus is more than just good government. It’s winning politics. By making...
The only thing that can be said about Kyrsten Sinema’s Senate career is that both Democrats and democracy are better off without her.
Trump and Biden appear to be on diverging political paths — and only Biden’s is heading toward sunlight.
Christian nationalism is thriving in the Trump era.
If Democrats want to defang the age issue, Biden will once again need to level with the American people directly.
Republicans’ stunning collapse in the face of a bipartisan border deal offers Democrats a rare opportunity to redefine an issue that has favored...
What’s needed now isn’t a postmodern media eagerly trying to craft a competitive campaign out of Trump’s victory lap. Our country needs media...