“Not a healthy situation for democracy.”
For Trump and Biden, who faces greater danger onstage at the presidential debate?
Like his presidential predecessors, Joe Biden continues to confront a dilemma in the Middle East.
And will the former president’s felony be top of mind for voters?
“Loyalty is job one.”
“We have a ways to go in our national devolution.”
“It’s extraordinary how much politics have been warped in the Trump era.”
“The actual war is in Gaza, but you wouldn't know it from news coverage this week of American campuses.”
Has Speaker Mike Johnson once again risked his tenuous leadership position?
House Speaker Mike Johnson faces mounting frustration among his right-wing Republican colleagues.
Republicans continue to clash this week as party leadership remains unclear.
“Very simply, the Israeli military has a sort of lower threshold for what it’s willing to tolerate and the risk that it’s willing to put civilians in.”
“The Biden people seem to be more scared of [RFK Jr.] than the Trump people are … It’s a real wild card partly because the anti-vaxxer vote is a pretty hard-core part of the Republican base.”
“If you flash back to the rupture during the Obama administration, Joe Biden was always the person who stepped in and tried to find a way to make it better.”
“You don’t see the president condemning Schumer’s statements, criticizing it at all … That does say a lot.”
The State of the Union “was the kickoff of a general election campaign and it was a clear contrast from Republicans on everything from abortion to immigration, to the economy.”
“McConnell was the final backstop against the complete Trumpification of the Senate.”
Anne Applebaum, David Ignatius, and Lara Seligman discuss with Jeffrey Goldberg what winning would look like for Ukraine.
Digging into the GOP front-runner’s claims on the stump and in legal filings
“The Senate is no longer this cooling saucer for the hot tea that’s boiling in the House.”