The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Donald Trump’s second term.

The actions of President Trump stand in parallel to Kennedy. The world faced a clear nuclear threat from an uncontrollable adversary and Trump drew a red line that he then backed up with bold but ...

President Trump uses a variety of communication styles, but it’s in formal interactions, particularly with other world ...

Trump’s love of letters provides a window into his approach to communication and the presidency. He likes tactile things. He ...

Musk said he wants to form the America Party. A third party has never won the presidency, but they have influenced elections, ...

The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded ...

Having the Air Force fly a B-2 bomber overhead during a signing ceremony for a budget bill would have in a different time ...

Wallace, Perot, Nader, Stein, now Musk? The mogul has floated securing just enough seats in Congress to make his America Party voting block indispensable as a spoiler for the purpose of forcing ...

I have lived under 14 different presidents. If I could, with a wave of my hand, I would bring Nixon back as our president now ...

Israel’s strikes on Iran, the historian Niall Ferguson posted, are “a decisive victory for the West.” Just as the Six-Day War ...

By stubbornly refusing to lower interest rates despite ample data urging him to do so, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is committing his third major policy blunder in six years. If he continues this ...

President Trump's public pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates is complicating the central bank's policy ...