With Donald Trump absent again, Republican presidential hopefuls took potshots at each other but agreed that Bidenomics isn’t cutting it.
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Shutting down the government won’t help reduce the deficit. Here’s what would.
When sincerity counts as honesty, accuracy no longer matters.
Term limits for presidents were only written into the Constitution after the second world war. And members of Congress can still serve as long as they wish.
When politicians talk more about their personal lives and less about politics, it makes people from the opposing side of the political line see them as people and like them more.
Nonreligious voters are poised to make an impact, but sweeping statements about the ‘nones’ don’t tell the full story.
Republican rising star Vivek Ramaswamy had a bump in the polls after a recent television debate.
Special counsels can help presidential administrations avoid the perception of bias, but they are not as independent as the independent counsels of the past.
While there are minimum age requirements for people who want to hold political office in the US, there are no limits on when someone must retire.
Donald Trump’s decision not to take part in the first TV debate for Republicans who want to be the next presidents seems to have reaped rewards for him.
Scholarly experts explain many aspects and angles of the criminal cases involving former president Donald Trump.
Women’s rights groups and politicians have pushed, ultimately unsuccessfully, for the Equal Rights Amendment to become part of the Constitution for the past several decades.
Nationalism and patriotism are sometimes treated as synonyms, but they have very different meanings.
Presidents have family drama, like all other people. Hunter Biden is simply the latest example of a family member who has brought negative attention to a president’s administration.
COVID truthers use four enticing promises to gain a loyal following.
The Treasury has been taking extraordinary measures to delay a default, but these measures could fail as early as June 1.
A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
If elected, Biden would be the oldest person to occupy the White House. But he’s by far the most popular candidate the Democrats have.
We often talk about the American political landscape as if it were a line – Democrats on the left, Republicans on the right. Two political scientists say that view doesn’t reflect reality.
The arrest of a former American president is unprecedented, but the nation’s founders anticipated the day would come.
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