This week began the federal antitrust trial against Google for alleged monopolistic practices when it comes to the online advertising space, with the Justice Department contending that the company has outsize dominion over what is a lifeline for industries including online publishing. Google, of course, doesn’t see it that way.

Google seems ...Read more

When it comes to policy matters, polling shows that Vice President Kamala Harris has lots of vulnerabilities. But where she stands on abortion isn’t one of them.

So, it was no surprise that the moderators of Tuesday’s presidential debate raised the topic early, before a lot of Americans tuned out.

Whether her exchange with rival Donald ...Read more

The reason both leading presidential candidates have favorability ratings under 50% was on full display during Tuesday’s presidential debate.

Start with former President Donald Trump. Coming into the debate, his job was simple. Inform voters of Vice President Kamala Harris’ radical record and remind them that things were better when he was ...Read more

It was Hillary Clinton who observed of her 2016 presidential campaign rival: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”

All indications from Tuesday evening’s presidential debate are that Donald Trump today is easier to bait than ever. Moreover, his lifelong habit of publicly describing (and ...Read more

Kamala Harris’s strategy of repeatedly goading Donald Trump into losing his cool may have worked for a night but it won’t be a long-term formula for success.

Harris will get a short-term bump based on her tactics but at what cost?

If you have to declare victory in a presidential debate based on a practiced strategy of smiling and trying to...Read more

If Tuesday’s debate were distilled to a single impression, it would be the image of a confident, controlled Kamala Harris and a visibly uncomfortable Donald Trump who kept his eyes downcast as he alternatively scowled and winced. The body language was as telling as the lies he spoke and the truths she scored.

A fitting summary came in Taylor ...Read more

Throughout Tuesday night’s hour and 45-minute debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump perpetuated a number of lies and half-truths about his record on health care — and seemed unable to offer Americans a concrete vision for how he would secure a healthier future for the country, instead referring only to �...Read more

In the United States, most parents of young children work, most need help caring for their children, and most cannot depend on family members to pitch in.

So wouldn't you think that providing affordable, high-quality child care to American families is a no-brainer? I mean, we've done it before. Why can't we do it again?

Indulge me for a brief ...Read more

Much of Tuesday’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump proved to be well-trodden ground. The sound bites and talking points, at times rambling and incoherent (Trump) or rational yet repetitive (Harris), were largely what we have heard before.

But when David Muir, one of the two ABC News anchors moderating the debate, ...Read more

Unlike the debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in June, Tuesday’s much-anticipated showdown between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris had a much different loser.

This time it was Donald Trump.

And it wasn’t particularly close.

Trump and Harris went into Tuesday’s debate locked in a tight race — much tighter than the one ...Read more

The public isn’t always right, but in this case, there’s a good reason 23 undecided voters in swing states told the Washington Post that Vice President Kamala Harris won Tuesday night’s debate, compared to just two favoring Donald Trump. She was far superior to Joe Biden’s June outing and she had a better night than Trump.

As to what’...Read more

In Tuesday night's presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris may or may not have increased her chances of becoming the 47th president. But she did what so many have tried, and failed, to do.

She de-normalized Donald Trump.

For years, various politicians and pundits have yelled themselves hoarse over the danger of normalizing Trump's ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Donald Trump finally met his match in a debate. Kamala Harris not only dominated and clobbered him, she goaded him into appearing unhinged.

It was arguably the best presidential debate performance since Ronald Reagan eviscerated President Jimmy Carter in 1980 with his classic lines: "There you go again" and "Ask yourself...Read more

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine over two years ago, politicians advocating for more U.S. taxpayer assistance to Ukraine have claimed we’re bleeding Russia dry at a comparatively small cost. But when it takes a million-dollar American missile to knock out a thousand-dollar enemy drone, it looks more like we’re the ones bleeding out — ...Read more

The headlines this election cycle have been dominated by unprecedented events, among them former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, the attempt on his life, President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance and his replacement on the Democratic ticket by Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s no wonder other important political ...Read more

One of the most important issues facing the country has been conspicuously absent from the U.S. presidential contest — and got only the most superficial mention at Tuesday night’s debate. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump apparently agree that unsustainable public borrowing is not their concern. In fact, both are proposing to make the problem ...Read more

Pope Francis is making an Asia-Pacific tour that’s about more than spreading the word or connecting with the devout. It is a run-through for the ultimate prize the Roman Catholic Church covets: a visit to China.

By some estimates, the world’s second-largest economy is on track to have the biggest population of Christians by 2030. The pope ...Read more

Even by the Middle Eastern standards, the past year has been full of surprises. A bolt-from-the-blue attack by Hamas produced the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. The resulting Israel-Hamas war in Gaza has now lasted longer than nearly anyone first imagined. Iran launched perhaps the largest drone and missile strike in history against...Read more

Triumphant music plays as cancer patients go camping, do some gardening, and watch fireworks in ads for Opdivo+Yervoy, a combination of immunotherapies to treat metastatic melanoma and lung cancer. Ads for Skyrizi, a medicine to treat plaque psoriasis and other illnesses, show patients snorkeling and riding bikes — flashing their rash-free ...Read more

After rural voters turned out big for Donald Trump, a narrative emerged that rural America was made up of majority White communities who used to vote reliably Democratic but had shifted right. The emergence of Tim Walz and JD Vance in this election cycle offers a chance for a deeper understanding of rural America, the Americans who live there �...Read more