In this week’s issue, you’ll read some of the reporting and observations I took away from a big political confab in Austin, ...

Plus: Jack Smith defends charging Trump before a Senate panel, consumer confidence falls to its lowest level since 2014, and ...

Inconsistent statements from the Pentagon keep congressional Democrats and others guessing about the prospect of troop deployment at voting spots in November.

At the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s recent retreat in Sea Island, Georgia, NRSC pollster Erik Iverson insisted that every incumbent GOP senator will be reelected and that Republicans are ...

Uthmeier’s action raises important points about transparency and safety at AI companies, but “as a question of law, the ...

If Democrats do indeed win a majority in the House and—the possibility seems more real by the day—the Senate, too, then all of the ones who promised on the campaign trail to prioritize their own ...

It’s a distant memory now, but the president spent a meaningful part of the summer of 2025 reprising the scene from The Naked ...