Opinion

Washington's government stake in Intel turns industrial policy into a conflict of interest. Here's why the president brokering chip deals should worry you.

Trump's 2024 coalition of young, Latino and independent voters is cracking, a stark new NBC poll shows. Here's why it should worry Republicans in 2026.

The recession the experts keep forecasting still has not shown up, and the consumer is the reason. Here is what the doomsayers keep getting wrong.

Russia's strike on Kyiv's Pechersk Lavra cathedral was deliberate — and calling it collateral damage lets Putin off the hook. The West's soft response invites more.

The federal order forcing Trump's name off the Kennedy Center is more than a naming dispute—it's evidence that America's courts are still prepared to check executive power when the other branches won't.

With the U.S. deficit on pace for $2 trillion, Washington is running from a reckoning that will land squarely on generations not yet born — and both parties are complicit in the silence.

A Trump-brokered Iran ceasefire looks good in headlines, but the verification demands and structural instabilities mirror every failed deal that came before it.

Vance Boelter had a list of 45 elected officials. He killed a House Speaker. His guilty plea forces a question American politics has refused to answer.

SpaceX's record IPO makes Elon Musk the most financially powerful unelected individual in American history. Congress cannot afford to keep looking away.