Politics

George Soros is a former hedge fund investor who has spent billions of his fortune on philanthropic causes. But to many conservatives, the frequent Democratic donor is a sinister liberal puppet-master who has funded everything from the protests surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation to the migrant caravan currently making …

Amid the daily chaos of the Donald Trump presidency, it’s easy to forget the stability we gave up two years ago. Obama administration chief photographer Pete Souza’s new book, Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents, serves as a brutal reminder. Souza juxtaposes his iconic portraits of the Obama presidency with …

California will play an outsized role in Democratic efforts to recapture the House in November. And the man accountable for delivering a blue wave in the Golden State — and across the West — is Rep. Ted Lieu, a rising star in the Democratic party. In a strategic shift for …

The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has capped the most brutal partisan judicial campaign in American history. For 40 years, movement conservatives plotted tirelessly and spent untold millions to install a solid hard-right majority on the court. Checked by the four appointments made by Bill Clinton and …

John McCain died Saturday afternoon at his ranch in Sedona, Arizona. He was 81. The longtime senator from Arizona had been battling glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, for over a year, and his death came a day after his family told the media they had decided to discontinue …

Deb Haaland moved around a lot as a kid. Her dad was in the Army, her mom was in the Navy, and she says she attended 13 schools before graduating in Albuquerque. But she has deep roots in New Mexico — really deep. The Pueblo of Laguna tribe, of which …

In space, no one can hear you thank them for their service. In that sense, and probably no other, enlistees in the United States Space Force — an actual thing we Americans are doing now — will be making a big sacrifice. On Thursday, Vice President Pence confirmed in an …

The world may never know the full extent of President Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin. Their summit in Helsinki led many to believe the president is in some way compromised by his Russian counterpart, and Trump has repeatedly stumbled while trying to explain his submissive performance during Monday’s press conference, …

UPDATE:During a joint press conference with Vladimir Putin following the Monday summit, President Trump bashed the FBI at length, suggested the case of 12 Russian intelligence officers indicted by the Justice Department be outsourced to Russian intelligence and reaffirmed that he believes Putin – not U.S. intelligence – in the …

Remember back in 2016 when that group of ranchers occupied a wildlife refuge in Oregon for 40 days? They were doing it to protest a prison sentence that had been handed down to Dwight and Steven Hammond, a father and son who in 2012 were convicted of setting fire to …