The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the ...

American political activists on the left and the right are using networks of social media followers that behave like bots to rapidly spread conspiracy theories embraced by significant segments of the ...

For historians, the 1960s and 1970s provide particularly eerie parallels to the present. Both eras were marked by bitter ...

The ranks of would-be presidential assassins are a cavalcade of losers, yet the latest shooter who set out to murder Donald ...

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Alex Cooper, Advocate Editor in Chief: Hope is really going to return next year. We see fault lines among far-right Republicans and the MAGA crowd. We also see voters not buying into the ...

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In the past decade, billionaires have been more empowered than ever before to spend money to influence American elections. The 20 most prolific donors on the Forbes billionaires list have collectively ...

Gu was also asked to weigh in, condemning Trump’s comments and saying “it really runs contrary to everything the Olympics should be.” Here is the problem with that: Gu was an American, born and raised ...

New York City billionaire John Catsimatidis has long been immersed in politics. But last year the Republican real estate and oil tycoon donated more money than he ever had before — $2.4 million to ...

In recent months, a strain of political rhetoric has crossed a line that democracies ignore at their peril. What began as familiar arguments about immigration levels and visa programs has, in some ...