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Donald Trump has pulled off an astounding political comeback and regained the White House as he's declared the winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. He becomes the first president in ...

Donald Trump has completed a paradigm-shattering political comeback, winning the White House in an election shaped more by Americans’ dissatisfaction with the direction of the country than by ...

Staffing a New Administration, With Stephen Hadley (Transition 2025, Episode 1) Stephen Hadley, a principal of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC and former national security advisor to President ...

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump’s ground game and Harris’ outreach to Republicans NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to ...

Given that, what better way to distract yourself from the doomscrolling than by binge-watching a political TV show, offering a dive into a fictional universe. From the romanticism of Aaron Sorkin ...

Can California's Prop 36 Crime Measure Fulfill Its Promises? October 25, 2024 • One of the most controversial initiatives on the California ballot this year is Proposition 36, which would roll ...

Dubbed the “election of a generation,” the 2024 presidential race and its result may very well be adapted for the screen — it feels stranger than fiction, like a TV plot come to life. As ...

Guest: Barry C. Lynn is the executive director of the Open Market Institute, the author of Liberty from All Masters, and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. His latest article THE ANTITRUST ...

While the greatest political story of our lifetimes may be playing out in the 2024 presidential contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, there was a time ...

More than one-quarter of college applicants have ruled out a school solely because of the political climate in its state, a new survey finds. And those concerns span the political spectrum.

Maryland’s competitive race between Republican Larry Hogan and Democratic Angela Alsobrooks has cost at least six times more than the state’s last contest for an open seat. The settlement ...