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After securing strong recruits on a tough Senate map, the Democratic leader is not only predicting an upset 2026 victory, but also naming the states he thinks his party can flip. [...]
President Trump has left himself plenty of room for maximal intervention. But there are a host of potential wild cards, each with risks for the president. [...]
The companies that turn oil into gasoline and diesel are likely to benefit more, right away, than the businesses that pump oil out of the ground. [...]
Republican election officials welcome the review, which relies on a federal verification tool, but they say they have not discovered a major problem when it comes to noncitizen voters. [...]
They were the first U.S. citizens released after the U.S. military captured Nicolás Maduro and flew him to the United States to stand trial on drug and other charges. [...]
Multiple things can be true at once. The Iranian people are engaged in a legitimate popular struggle against an entrenched political elite that has failed to meet their material needs [...]
There are no in-house critics in Trump’s second term (2025-2029), which may be more apocalyptic, leading to the derogation of America’s democracy and greater use of force at home and [...]
Conventional wisdom tells us that the primary motivation of Trump's Venezuelan operation was to secure American access or control over the nation’s oil. Oil is a major factor — but [...]
Sooner or later, in any foolproof system, the fools are going to exceed the proofs.[1] I awoke on the Friday morning of March 11, 2011, to a peaceful, sunny, relatively [...]
This past November, the United Nations annual Emissions Gap Report found modest progress in the fight against global warming over the past year. Yet there was even a reported catch [...]