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Ever since Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, a political and cultural realignment has been underway in America, culminating in his second presidential victory. Many issues once considered ...Read more

California has the highest residential electricity rates in the continental United States. The reason is exactly what you’d expect.

In May, residential customers in California paid an average of 35.03 cents per kilowatt...Read more

The latest national report on students who left college without earning a degree contains some sobering data: Approximately 2.1 million students stopped higher education between January 2022 and July 2023, swelling the “...Read more

It began this year with a Texas Democrat: Sylvester Turner, the former mayor of Houston who had joined the House at the age of 70. He died two months into his freshman term.

That was quickly followed by the deaths of two ...Read more

This hasn’t been a good year for congressional authority. Consider Congress’ craven vote to claw back some $9 billion of funding it had previously allocated for foreign aid and public broadcasting. That quiet move ...Read more

As President Donald Trump’s deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development and director of the Office of Head Start during his first term, I have seen firsthand the positive impact of his leadership. His ...Read more

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s controversial former personal attorney to a lifetime federal appeals court post Tuesday on a narrow party-line vote.

Emil Bove, who has served as a Justice Department ...Read more

Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official and former personal attorney for President Donald Trump, was approved along party lines Tuesday night for a lifetime seat as a federal appeals judge in Philadelphia, capping a ...Read more

The Trump administration is considering halting all wind development on federal lands and in federal waters as the president expands his campaign against the renewable energy source he’s long criticized.

Interior ...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz has called special elections in two Senate districts left vacant this month after the burglary conviction of Sen. Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury, and the death of Sen. Bruce Anderson, R-Buffalo.

Elections to ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Crafting a column can be an unpredictable endeavor. That is especially true when you're writing about politics.

Like most human beings, elected officials can be awfully complicated.

Take California Gov. ...Read more

As a Miami mayoral candidate’s lawsuit against the city advances, Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal appeared skeptical of the city’s justification for postponing the November 2025 election to 2026 without ...Read more

The Trump administration’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Tuesday revoking a science-based determination that pollution fueling climate change harms public health. The so-called endangerment finding has...Read more

The Trump administration promised that the $9 billion rescission package Congress passed this month on spending for foreign aid and government broadcasting would be the first of many. The White House is quickly looking to ...Read more

Coca-Cola is launching a new product in the U.S. this fall featuring cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup, and at least one restaurant chain is planning to offer sugar Coke as soon as next week. This news ...Read more

It’s being described by the media as an “autopsy,” an examination by Democrats as to why they lost the last presidential election and a congressional majority. According to politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3793251">Read more

In 2020, Susan Collins’ Democratic challenger raised so much money, she couldn’t spend it all. Yet Sara Gideon lost in a blowout. Maine’s moderate Republican senator defeated her 51% to 42%, even as the Democratic ...Read more

For 22 months, since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted it’s too soon to discuss Gaza’s future. One can debate the merits of his position (and his motivations). For the ...Read more

The Pentagon got a whopping $150 billion increase in the budget bill passed by Congress and signed by the president July 4. That will push next year’s proposed Pentagon budget to more than $1 trillion. Most of that ...Read more

In a brazen move, Republicans in Texas have set out to redraw the state’s congressional map — an effort to boost President Donald Trump and the GOP in the 2026 midterm elections.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has threatened to ...Read more