Stop overthinking it: An indictment would be bad for Trump
Alexander Burns is an associate editor for global politics at POLITICO. His Tomorrow column explores the future of politics and policy debates that cross national lines. The widely expected indictment...
View ArticleBiden to mark Good Friday peace deal in 5-day Irish trip
DUBLIN — U.S. President Joe Biden will pay a five-day visit to both parts of Ireland next month to mark the 25th anniversary of the U.S.-brokered Good Friday peace accord, according to a provisional...
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In Belfast, world leaders beg the DUP to play ball. They won’t … for now
BELFAST — The great and the good came from London, Dublin and Brussels. From Washington and Florida, New York and Maine too. If their mission was to convince the Democratic Unionist Party to go back...
View ArticleTrump stashed military secrets throughout his home, indictment says
A federal indictment unsealed Friday charges former President Donald Trump with 37 felony counts stemming from an investigation into the presence of a trove of classified information at his Florida...
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The startling, damning details in the Trump indictment
Classified documents found in a shower. A clumsy effort to move boxes and hide them from the FBI. A damaging admission, caught on tape. And Donald Trump’s own public statements, used against him....
View ArticleUS Democrats brace for a 2024 Biden-Trump rematch
When Barack Obama sat down with Joe Biden this summer and conveyed his concerns about the strength of Donald Trump going into 2024, the warning was not the first to come from within the president’s...
View ArticleDonald Trump has a big problem ahead
Donald Trump has a problem no matter what happens in New Hampshire on Tuesday night: There’s a whole swath of the Republican electorate and a good chunk of independents who appear firmly committed to...
View ArticleBiden says ‘memory is fine’ after report questions his mental capacity
A fiery President Joe Biden on Thursday night defended his mental capacity for the job and angrily questioned why the special counsel would write in his report that he couldn’t recall when his son...
View ArticlePoll: Overwhelming majority of Americans think Biden is too old for another term
President Joe Biden is too old for another term in the White House, an overwhelming majority of those surveyed in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll say. According to the poll, which was released Sunday after...
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How Marine Le Pen turned respectable (and why you shouldn’t be fooled)
HOW LE PEN TURNED RESPECTABLE TURNED (and why you shouldn’t be fooled) PARIS In 1987, a squinting, lipless, blond-haired politician named Jean Marie Le Pen was asked on a French radio show whether he...
View ArticleJapan hunkers down for Trump 2.0
TOKYO — Here’s the good news from Japan. The cherry blossoms are stunning, the stock market is booming, and Tokyo’s Haneda airport is chockablock with foreign tourists. The bad news is a pervasive...
View ArticleDeepfakes, distrust and disinformation: Welcome to the AI election
This article is part of a series, Bots and Ballots: How artificial intelligence is reshaping elections worldwide, presented by Luminate. From his Boston apartment, Callum Hood has the power to...
View ArticleTrump has sowed doubt in elections for more than a decade. The debate was the...
It took three tries from debate moderator Dana Bash to get Donald Trump to answer the question: Will he accept the results of the 2024 election, regardless of who wins? “If it’s a fair and legal and...
View ArticlePoll finds Biden damaged by debate; with Harris and Clinton best positioned...
A top Democratic pollster has a new survey showing President Joe Biden still in contention against Donald Trump, but at further risk of losing the election — with other leading Democrats now surging...
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What Washington thinks of Keir Starmer
WASHINGTON — Keir Starmer was given a hero’s welcome by senior Democrats in Washington last week. In a procession of meetings with U.S. President Joe Biden, top White House officials and Democrats in...
View ArticleDemocrats rally around Harris after Biden drops out
Major players in the Democratic Party on Sunday swiftly coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris to be its new presidential nominee — a show of support that could make it difficult for any other...
View ArticleUS presidential candidates Harris and Trump launch lines of attack: A crook...
Vice President Kamala Harris framed her likely upcoming fight against Donald Trump as one between a prosecutor and a criminal — describing, from her new campaign headquarters Monday, her experience...
View ArticleThe fate of Biden’s Supreme Court proposal may lie with Kamala Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris is embracing President Joe Biden’s call to revamp the Supreme Court. Like her boss, it’s the first time she has ever endorsed structural changes to the court. But there...
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Phil Gordon: Europe’s ‘ally’ on Kamala Harris’ team
PARIS — The man who could steer the United States’ security policy under a Kamala Harris presidency speaks four European languages, wrote his thesis on Charles de Gaulle and even translated a book by...
View ArticleTrump goes low as Harris gains ground
Donald Trump broadsided Kamala Harris in a string of derisive social media posts on Saturday, focusing his attacks on the vice president’s intellect after a week that saw her both out-fundraise him...
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