Essential Politics: Skittles, slavery and the path to the presidency
It’s not every day both Skittles and slavery become campaign trail topics, but in 2016 just about anything seems possible. I’m Christina Bellantoni. Welcome to…
Many say Biden, Trump did more harm than good, for different reasons
WASHINGTON — There’s a reason why President Biden and former President Trump are spending so much time attacking each other — people don’t think either man…
Trump’s untruths pile up. Biden gets facts wrong too. Do voters care?
Former President Trump was on another one of his screeds about how Democratic prosecutors were persecuting him, saying he’d been “investigated by the Democrats more…
Poll: Americans want presidential power checked, unless their side wins
WASHINGTON — Like many Americans, Richard Bidon says he’d like to see the U.S. government “go back to its original design” — a system of checks…
Vice President Harris, Guatemalan leader Arévalo discuss immigration
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris welcomed Bernardo Arévalo, the newly elected president of Guatemala, to the White House on Monday to praise his battle against…
Indonesia election commission confirms Prabowo Subianto wins presidency | Politics News
Former general declared the winner of last month’s presidential election. Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto has been elected president of the world’s third biggest democracy, the General…
Trump asks Supreme Court to dismiss case charging him with plotting to overturn 2020 election
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to dismiss an indictment charging the former president with conspiring to overturn the…
A Second Trump Presidency? Expect a Three-Pronged Assault on Law, Justice and National Security
“I hold despicable, and always have…anyone who puts his own popularity before his country.” -Sophocles, Antigone, Speech of Creon, King of Thebes It’s high time…
Opinion: Will Biden blow his State of the Union opportunity?
Wishful thinkers in both parties, and pundits too, have mused about a State of the Union address on Thursday in which President Biden looks serenely…
How the Supreme Court keeps making another Trump presidency possible
The Supreme Court held Monday that a single state such as Colorado can’t prohibit Donald Trump from running for president as an insurrectionist under the…
What does a Trump presidency mean for the global order?
Ultimately, Biden and Trump offer competing visions that both strive for one goal – a stronger, more prosperous and unfettered America. Biden proposes to do…
Experts rank Biden among the best presidents. Trump? Not so much
Presidents Day occurs at a crucial moment this year, with the presidency on the cusp of crisis as we inexorably shuffle toward a rematch between…
Opinion: Age matters. Which is why Biden’s age is his superpower
Joe Biden is old. Like each of us, he comes from a particular place in history, in his case the LBJ years. And that’s one…
Scepticism as Gibran Rakabuming Raka runs for Indonesia’s vice presidency | Elections News
Solo, Indonesia – For more than 40 years, Sarti has been cycling his pedicab around the streets of the Indonesian city of Surakarta, or Solo.…
Ukraine war critic submits bid to challenge Putin for Russia’s presidency | Elections News
Putin win seen as forgone conclusion, but Boris Nadezhdin’s opposition to Russia’s war in Ukraine has won him significant support. Boris Nadezhdin, a prominent critic…
Supreme Court urged to find Trump ineligible for presidency
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court should declare that Donald Trump is ineligible to be president because he spearheaded the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in…
Column: Trump’s ‘I’m not responsible’ presidency
WASHINGTON — On the eve of the D-day invasion of France in June 1944, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote down the words he planned to say…
China skeptic wins Taiwan presidency in snub to Beijing – POLITICO
TAIPEI — William Lai, a China skeptic with a track record supporting independence, won the Taiwanese presidential election on Saturday in a result that risks…