13+ hour, 2+ min ago   (577+ words) If there’s anything I appreciate about President Donald Trump, it’s how he’s held up a perverse mirror to what government fundamentally boils down to: power, money, manipulation, awarding one’s friends and punishing one’s enemies. In this context, then, Trump’s recent…...

15+ hour, 41+ min ago   (837+ words) By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and DIDI TANG While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative forces” he did not identify,…...

20+ hour, 40+ min ago   (286+ words) Proposition 39 on the November ballot would implement voter ID requirements in California. Although 36 states already have voter ID laws, opponents are acting as if this measure is the end of democracy. At a rally on Wednesday, high-profile Democrats characterized Prop....

20+ hour, 41+ min ago   (350+ words) Taxation is theft, libertarian thinkers have long asserted, and Proposition 40 on the November ballot contains nothing that proves them wrong. The measure known as the Billionaire Tax Act would amend the state constitution to override existing limits on taxing and…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1076+ words) By MICHELLE L. PRICE and LISA MASCARO Republicans know they are up against history, which traditionally rebuffs the party in power during midterms, but they’re relying on Trump’s personal appeal to voters. Vance, with a primetime speaking slot right before the…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (813+ words) A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement....

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (782+ words) The recent departure of Venezuela and Chad brings the number of countries to pull out of the court in the past year to five, joining Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The surge in withdrawals comes as the ICC faces hostility…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (676+ words) By JACQUELINE GANUN and JONATHAN J. COOPER The Democratic Senate nominee from Michigan was a frequent punching bag during this week’s GOP convention, where a steady stream of Republicans singled him out. They attacked his progressive views, his ties to a…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (728+ words) “I don’t really like the way he looks,” Trump told the laughing crowd in Paxton’s home state of Texas. But never mind that because “he was our greatest attorney general and he deserves to go to the United States Senate....