Does Trump understand that ‘strongman’ isn’t a compliment?
In one of her effective efforts to goad Donald Trump during their debate on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris told the viewing audience he didn’t engender the level of international respect he often claims. “I’m going to tell you that I
Kim Jong Un promises to ‘steadily strengthen’ North Korea’s ‘nuclear force’
North Korea is promising to refine its weapons development and strengthen its nuclear capabilities. Supreme leader Kim Jong Un made the comments Monday at a state event celebrating the country’s 76th anniversary. ‘The obvious conclusion is that the nuclear force of the
House GOP plan to avert government shutdown on life support as Johnson delays vote
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was forced to delay a House-wide vote on his plan to avert a partial government shutdown on Wednesday after a slew of GOP defections put the bill on life support within days of its rollout. Johnson told
Focus group reacts to Trump, Harris faceoff over Project 2025
A focus group reacting live to the presidential debate appeared to have strong opinions about the controversial conservative plan, Project 2025. Project 2025 was launched by the Heritage Foundation as part of their Presidential Transition Project for the 2024 cycle. The
On 9/11 anniversary Afghan opposition leader warns country once again a ‘safe haven for terrorists’
Three years since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and 23 years since the 9/11 terror attacks that led to the U.S. invasion, Afghanistan finds itself in a worse position now than it was on that fateful day. ‘This country has become
Donald Trump no longer knows how to talk to anyone outside his base
Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 Republican nominating contest was largely a function of his willingness to embrace and elevate dangerous, hateful and false claims from the rightmost fringe of Republican rhetoric. There was a whole galaxy of assertions and
House GOP maneuvers to portray Democrats as weak on China
House Republicans this week are bringing a raft of China-focused legislation to a vote in a pre-election bid to bolster the party’s foreign policy credentials, as Democrats and the GOP compete to chart a path for managing an increasingly fraught
How resounding was Kamala Harris’s debate win? Let’s look at the polls.
Vice President Kamala Harris turned in one of the more resounding debate performances in recent decades on Tuesday night — to the point where Donald Trump’s allies have struggled to locate a silver lining. Precisely how much the debate could impact
More than a third of Americans are too young to remember Sept. 11
Across the country, Americans took a moment on Wednesday morning to remember the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Or, for about a third of Americans, the moment was one of observation for the thousands of lives lost. An observation, not
Trump attack on Harris racial identity strikes a nerve at Black church watch party
ABINGTON, Pa. — The predominantly Black crowd here responded with deep sighs and some laughter when the discussion in Tuesday night’s presidential debate turned to Donald Trump’s baseless attack on Kamala Harris’s racial identity. Why, a moderator asked the former president,