Latest Headlines

President Donald Trump was serving his first term when Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, both political science professors at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, outside Boston, wrote their 2018 book "How Democracies Die."

Levitsky and Ziblatt took a close look at former democracies that fell into authoritarianism, and they drew a distinction between outright fascist dictatorships and countries that technically have voting rights but are heavily rigged in favor of one particular party.

A right-wing InfoWars host made what he called a "shocking announcement" Monday night that he was leaving Alex Jones' signature conspiracy theory show, because he's "too anti-Trump."

Owen Shroyer, best known as the host of the "War Room" show on the far-right website, told viewers in a livestream Monday night that he was making a "shocking announcement."

President Donald Trump's family made as much as $5 billion with the launch of a new cryptocurrency token, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal on Monday evening.

The debut of the token, per the report, "is akin to an initial public offering, in which the cryptocurrency, called WLFI, can now be bought and sold on the open market like a listed company’s shares. Beforehand, people who had privately bought WLFI from the Trump venture, World Liberty Financial, hadn’t been able to exchange their tokens."

In the 2018 midterms, health care proved to be a very strong issue for Democrats and a terrible one for Republicans.

Democratic strategists hammered President Donald Trump and then-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) relentlessly on their efforts to overturn the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare, and that messaging worked: Democrats flipped the U.S. House of Representatives with a net gain of 40 seats. And some Democrats argued that their party would have picked up even more House seats had Republicans not gerrymandered congressional districts so badly.

President Donald Trump continued his "authoritarian takeover of our election system" over the weekend, threatening an executive order requiring every voter to present identification, which experts swiftly denounced as clearly "unconstitutional."

"Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform late Saturday. "I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!!"

President Donald Trump is vowing to take his tariff case to the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court ruled his sweeping scheme was illegal — but according to New York-based attorney John Polonis, the president shouldn't bank on the 6-3 Republican judicial body to give their stamp of approval, either.

Polonis laid out why he believes the justices are likely to uphold the appeals court's ruling in a lengthy post to Threads on Monday.

President Donald Trump's behavior around the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case has created suspicion simply because of how little he seems to want to follow through on giving the answers he promised his base, Vanity Fair's Molly Jong-Fast told Ari Melber on MSNBC on Monday.

Melber started this point by playing a clip of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's controversial interview with imprisoned Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, who said she did not believe Epstein died by suicide — a common conspiracy theory that has animated the debate.

A powerhouse House Democrat's decision Monday to bow out of the 2026 midterms and end his 34-year tenure in Congress reverberated across the internet and stunned political observers.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) opted for retirement, citing the need for generational change within his party, The New York Times reported Monday. The 78-year-old was reluctant to step aside amid the party's opposition to President Donald Trump's erosion of democratic foundations.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) will not seek re-election next year, ending his 34-year tenure in Congress.

Nadler opted for retirement, citing the need for generational change within his party, The New York Times reported Monday. The 78-year-old was reluctant to step aside amid the party's opposition to President Donald Trump's erosion of democratic foundations.

President Donald Trump's implementation of the "No Tax On Tips" policy is poorly conceived and asking for trouble, University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers told CNN's Phil Mattingly on Monday.

The policy, a key campaign promise Trump made in 2024, was authorized by the GOP's tax cut megabill passed earlier this year. It allows for tips to receive a tax deduction. The policy, along with eliminating taxes on overtime, expires a month before Trump is set to leave office.

In an article for the Wall Street Journal published Monday, conservative legal commentator Jonathan H. Adler argued that the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s rejection of the Trump administration’s sweeping emergency “Liberation Day” tariffs underscores both the legal overreach at play and the constitutional stakes now before the Supreme Court.

On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, affirmed a lower court’s ruling that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) when he imposed broad “Liberation Day” and reciprocal tariffs, reversing conventional limits established by Congress.

News that Rudy Giuliani would receive the nation's highest civilian honor from President Donald Trump earned swift mockery and outrage from observers on Labor Day.

Giuliani suffered fractured vertebrae and other injuries in a serious crash Saturday night near Manchester, New Hampshire. According to a statement signed by Michael Ragusa, Giuliani's head of security, the incident occurred after Giuliani "was flagged down by a woman who was the victim of a domestic violence incident."

President Donald Trump was torn apart by The Washington Post editorial board on Monday for his strong-arm tactics against the government of India — a measure they warned could not just backfire in his face, but undo decades of progress for the United States in building closer ties to the world's most populous country.

Trump has done everything in his power to pressure India to turn away from involvement with Russia and China, mostly by imposing massive tariffs on the country as a bargaining chip. The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has responded by meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping, prompting an online meltdown by the president.