Republicans are threatening to remove Democrats from office or even have them arrested. Democrats have declared “we are at war” and pledged to go “nuclear” in response. All of this over maps. How can something so seemingly basic spark such intense rhetoric? That’s because, thanks to a process known as gerrymandering, political fights over maps…
Jeffrey Sachs is an economics professor and director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He was a special adviser to the UN Secretary General and has advised multiple governments on economic transition, debt crisis solutions and poverty alleviation policies. Part 1 of…
(This story has been refiled to remove an incorrect image) (Reuters) -Democratic lawmakers in Texas said on Sunday they were leaving the state to deny Republicans the quorum needed to redraw the state’s 38 congressional districts, a move sought to protect the Republicans’ narrow U.S. House majority in next year’s midterm elections. President Donald Trump…
Elon Musk made donations totaling $15 million to three super PACs supporting Donald Trump and the Republicans after his very public falling out with the president, but all before he announced his plans for the new “America Party.” Newsweek reached out to the White House and Musk via X, SpaceX, and Tesla for comment by…
President Donald Trump briefly lost track of the room Wednesday, searching for a GOP lawmaker whose bill he was signing while the congressman stood inches behind him. Reps. Derrick Van Orden and Mike Bost were already flanking the podium when the 79-year-old president strolled up without so much as a glance at either of them….
By Helen Coster and James Oliphant NEW YORK (Reuters) -Residents of Columbus, Indiana awoke last week to a yellow billboard purchased by the Democratic National Committee blaring: “Under Trump’s Watch, Columbus Regional Health is Cutting Medical Services.” Meanwhile, the National Republican Congressional Committee, which oversees races for the U.S. House of Representatives, this month launched…
Two years ago, Donald Trump, Jr. and Omeed Malik rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as renegades. They had just turned PublicSquare, a Yelp-like directory of conservative businesses, into a publicly traded company, marking the emergence of a movement rebelling against “woke-ism” with their wallets. When the pair returned on July…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Anyone who’s tired of centuries of two-party dominance in American politics has probably dreamed of something coming along to shake things up. And earlier this month, when Elon Musk capped weeks of mouthing off…
President Donald Trump set his sights on his next major policy push—a Rescissions Bill that includes a provision to cut some funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which oversees PBS and NPR. In a post on Truth Social, Trump threatened Republicans that they would lose his support or endorsement if they did not…
Democrats’ pride in being American has “fallen through the floor,” CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten has noted. Enten pointed to new survey data from Gallup which showed that just 36% of Democrats are now “extremely” or “very” proud to be American. It’s down from 80% in 2015, when former President Barack Obama was in…