In Focus

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) walks to board a bus to the White House with other Senate Republicans for a meeting with President Donald Trump on his spending and tax bill, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Cornyn flexes conservative credentials in bitter Senate primary

By Ramsey Touchberry and Samantha-Jo Roth March 2, 2026 5:10 am

Macron’s gift to Hamas terrorism

Gareth Elwell and Jason Agnew Aug 21, 2025

The Senate tries to do what the Fed cannot: Solve the housing crisis

Tiana Lowe Doescher Jul 31, 2025

President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington.

Team Trump is blowing its chance to reform the deep state

John Schindler Jul 31, 2025

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) offers an amendment as the House Oversight and Accountability Committee holds an organizational meeting for the 118th Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023.

AOC, Crockett, and Mamdani: The scary future of the Democrats is now

Joe Concha Jul 30, 2025

The research racket: How universities cash in on federal grants

By Stephen Porter March 11, 2025 8:00 am

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, left, takes a question from a reporter in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Trump’s tariff theory of the case

By Conn Carroll March 10, 2025 2:00 pm

House Democrats retreat gives caucus first glimpse of future leadership — and chance for a reset

By Rachel Schilke March 10, 2025 8:00 am

MAGA has a problem with Amy Coney Barrett. It’s more complicated than they think

By Kaelan Deese March 9, 2025 8:00 am

Candles for Pope Francis are seen in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Friday, March 7, 2025, where the Pontiff has been hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14.

A pastoral pope

By Jeremiah Poff March 8, 2025 2:00 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom stands at a press conference at Raleigh Studios unveiling a vast expansion of California’s Film and Television Credit Program on October 27, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

Gavin Newsom’s bold plans have a habit of blowing up

By Barnini Chakraborty March 8, 2025 8:00 am

Recalling the twisted tyranny of ‘follow the science’

By Timothy P. Carney March 7, 2025 2:00 pm

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

Trump promised us stability, not economic chaos

By David Harsanyi March 7, 2025 8:00 am

President-elect Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pose before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Dec. 7, 2024.

What both sides get wrong about Ukraine

By David Harsanyi March 6, 2025 2:00 pm

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Washington.

Trump restores the First Amendment to the press pool

By Joe Concha March 6, 2025 8:00 am

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arrives to vote for the parliamentary runoff elections, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 10, 2024.

Will Iran give Trump what he wants?

By Tom Rogan March 5, 2025 2:00 pm

Humanitarian interventionism sowed the seeds of the Ukraine war

By John Roberts March 5, 2025 8:00 am