The vice president is tantalizingly close to victory or a heart-breaking defeat. Either way, she’s used the campaign's final ...

Jonathan Alter takes us inside the hush money trial that made Donald Trump the first ex-president felon in American history.

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How deregulation and private equity have gutted the U.S. freight rail system—and with it, the promise of America’s industrial ...

Online sports gambling companies use sophisticated and deceptive techniques to exploit problem gamblers. The same ...

Dobbs was a disaster. A national abortion ban would make it worse, but a MAGA White House could install judges ready to take ...

That’s where nonpartisan media and civic health organizations come in. They present fact-based reporting on the biggest ...

Both the Republican nominee and the Fuhrer couldn’t have come to power without the compliance of traditional conservatives.

Trump failed once to implement his mass deportation plans for illegal migrants and did more as president to curtail legal immigration. By contrast, with a cooperative Congress, Harris can quickly pass ...

The alarms ought to be ringing. A GOP victory means gutting the Affordable Care Act and its Medicaid subsidies. Harris plans ...

Inspectors general have fought for accountability in U.S. government for decades, with varying success. They will be prime ...

The former president is shamelessly offering plutocrats like Elon Musk political favors for their support—and no longer promising to take on monopolists.