Obamas endorse Harris: ‘She gives us all reason to hope’
Former President Obama, one of the most respected voices in the modern Democratic Party, and former First Lady Michelle Obama officially endorsed Vice President Kamala...
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Electoral politics become a subtext in the prisoner swap with Russia
WASHINGTON — When the Americans freed from Russia stepped on U.S. soil late Thursday night, the first hugs came from a beaming President Biden and Vice...
Harris and Democrats raised more than twice as much as Trump in July.
During the most tumultuous period of any presidential contest in recent memory, likely Democratic nominee Kamala Harris crushed former President Trump in the July money...
Netanyahu’s high-profile U.S. visit derailed by shifting politics
WASHINGTON — Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrapped up a weeklong U.S. trip Friday with a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, tipping his hat to Republican presidential...
As Harris rises in polls, Trump falsely questions her Black identity
CHICAGO — Former President Trump made baseless assertions about Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity during a combative interview at a Black journalism conference Wednesday, while...
The Supreme Court is out of control. Here’s how to rein it in
President Biden has proposed reforming a U.S. Supreme Court whose integrity has been tarnished, if not ruined, by its most conservative members. The president embraced...
Column: White Dudes for Harris back presidential candidate
A mob of white men in the thousands amassed in a show of solidarity for their presidential candidate of choice, and no violence ensued. Not...
Kamala Harris has to be an avatar not of hope but of give-’em-hell
Objectively, it is an amazing progression in a short window of time. In 2008, Barack Obama, a Democrat, became the nation’s first Black president. Sixteen...
Hiltzik: Time to retire our aging Supreme Court justices
If it’s true that as Mark Twain supposedly said, history doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes, then we are about to embark on a...
With Supreme Court reform ideas, Biden is playing the long game
The first and easiest question to answer with respect to the package of Supreme Court reform measures that President Biden announced Monday is whether there...