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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Winning elections — or achieving any success — often is about being in the right spot at the right moment. Getting lucky and capitalizing. Xavier Becerra is a textbook example.

Becerra’s ...Read more

For most of President Donald Trump’s first 500 days back in office, congressional Republicans have shown next to no appetite for challenging him.

When the president’s immigration enforcement tactics wreaked havoc on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats are looking to break a five-year losing streak at Wednesday night’s Congressional Baseball Game, hoping a revamped roster will be enough to beat Republicans.

But partisan rivalry aside, research...Read more

Upon returning home from his time as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I, naturalist Henry Beston famously described wild animals as “other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow ...Read more

Since 2016, when Donald Trump shattered the Democrats’ blue wall by winning working-class voters across the Midwest, a cottage industry has sprung up on the left dedicated to answering a single question: How can ...Read more

Former Vice President Mike Pence is not merely promoting a new book. He is making a final argument for a vision of conservatism that he believes is slipping away.

In “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the ...Read more

When I was 14, I read my first union contract. It was the spring of 1972, a few months before I was to graduate from eighth grade, and the contract was between the United Steelworkers of America and Republic Steel.

The ...Read more

The first rule of a primary election is: Don't make too much of the results.

The intrepid folks who bother to cast a ballot in these first-round races are largely a group of engaged voters, and drawing conclusions from ...Read more

It began with the president asking Texas to redraw its congressional map to give Republicans additional House seats in the 2026 midterm elections.

This prompted California to redraw its map, giving Democrats a comparable ...Read more

From John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev navigating the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai’s meetings that laid the groundwork for China’s opening up in 1971 — modern history is full of ...Read more

Donald Trump may pretend that he finds the quagmire he caused in the Middle East “very boring.” But even accounting for his notoriously short attention span, I find it more plausible that the president is starting to ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Even before President Trump’s latest wave of unfounded claims of election fraud in California, a significant share of voters in the state expressed concerns about federal interference in the ...Read more

An updated federal report alleges top Minnesota leaders knew about widespread fraud in social services programs but repeatedly failed to stop it — the latest partisan fallout from the ongoing fraud crisis.

The 200-page ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has yet to embark on a robust midterm campaign schedule, and his handful of initial rallies have been far from targeted messages talking up GOP candidates.

In the most recent two ...Read more

NEW YORK — Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso on Monday aggressively accused Assemblywoman Claire Valdez of being “beholden” to Mayor Zohran Mamdani as their Democratic primary battle heats up for New York's ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers passed a bill Monday aimed at preventing future executive branch interference in some legislative branch agencies, a year after President Donald Trump fired the librarian of Congress.

It ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to charge a $100,000 fee for companies seeking to employ foreign workers with an H-1B visa, ruling in part that it ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress face two major tasks this week: wrapping up reconciliation 2.0 and renewing a controversial spy powers authority before it expires Friday.

The House returns with a final sprint to ...Read more

The Trump administration on May 20, 2026, indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro for murder, based on the downing of two planes near the Cuban coastline in 1996 that killed four people.

As a historian of ...Read more

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.

Can kids go to prison? – Artie, age 10, New York City...Read more