4+ hour, 24+ min ago   (178+ words) “One bill proposes increasing the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to 13. Another would cut their lifetime terms to 18 years. Others would create an enforceable ethics code and place standards on how the court rules from its relatively opaque…...

4+ hour, 27+ min ago   (169+ words) Ron Brownstein: “Democrats this year are seriously contesting more races for governor and senator across the industrial Midwest and Farm Belt than at any point since the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency.” “The party still faces substantial skepticism from…...

4+ hour, 22+ min ago   (178+ words) David Smith: “He was always one step ahead. Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency as a wildly unlikely outsider in 2016 and staged an astonishing comeback to win it again in 2024. Even his foes grudgingly called him a political savant with…...

5+ hour, 24+ min ago   (127+ words) “A movement of young, progressive outsiders has stormed Democratic politics this year, sparking a wave of contentious primary contests across the country and fueling a fraught debate over whether these new, left-wing candidates are remaking the party in their image,…...

5+ hour, 13+ min ago   (326+ words) “Even as U.S. policy has walled off Washington, D.C. from friends across the pond, Americans’ travel overseas is reaching new heights,” Axios reports. “Much like the resilient consumer, the American tourist keeps riding the post-Covid travel wave, even as debt…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago   (151+ words) Nate Cohn: “When the midterm election campaign began, Michigan seemed like a state that Democrats could take for granted in their pursuit of the Senate. Yes, it’s a presidential battleground state, but that makes it the kind of state that…...

5+ hour, 22+ min ago   (191+ words) “In mid-May, U.S. negotiators trying to reach a deal with Iran to end the war ran into a problem: They couldn’t tell if the people across the table actually spoke for the country’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” Axios reports....

5+ hour, 17+ min ago   (153+ words) Financial Times: “Most U.S. voters say they have become worse off under Donald Trump, according to an FT poll revealing mounting discontent with the president’s handling of the economy and cost of living.” “With less than three months until November’s…...

5+ hour, 16+ min ago   (179+ words) Aaron Blake: “One of the Trump administration’s biggest problems in extracting itself from the Iran war is the list of very absolutist goals that President Donald Trump and his team laid out.” “The goals have included complete Iranian surrender, regime…...

13+ hour, 5+ min ago   (127+ words) Politico: “Now, as Sacramento prepares for Becerra’s all but inevitable ascension, the elected officials, lobbyists, and corporate and labor leaders who shape policy in one of the nation’s most consequential capitals are grappling with a contradiction: Despite Becerra’s decades in…...