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There’s little question the House of Representatives is in play, but up until now, experts weren’t as optimistic about Democratic control of the Senate. That’s changing — with the possibility of Democrats taking the Senate now a “real possibility.”“In today’s polarized era, Democrats would need everything to break their way” to take control of the upper chamber, The New York Times reports. “So far, everything is breaking the Democrats’ way.” A multitude of variables are lining up in Democrats’ favor f

The war with Iran is spiraling more than ever as the tenuous ceasefire reaches "a state of near-total collapse," all the while, according to a new analysis from The Bulwark, President Donald Trump appears checked out of the conflict that he started.Writing for the outlet on Monday, anti-Trump conservative commentator William Kristol observed that "the danger in the Strait of Hormuz is as b

As the deadline looms for Congress to settle debate over whether and how to extend a controversial surveillance bill, Republicans are admitting that the issue is a “train wreck” they don’t know how to solve. As a result, they not only face what Politico calls a “never-ending” crisis, but risk derailing their agenda in other realms. For months, Congress has been attempting to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which allows the government to monitor the communications of foreign targets without a warrant. As a side effect, howev

In 2025, four major companies — Paramount, ABC, Meta (which includes Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads), and the Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter — agreed to donate millions of dollars to fund Donald Trump's presidential library in Miami. Altogether, the donations totaled at least $63 million for the library, which according to President Trump, could double as a Trump-branded hotel.Senate Democrats have been probing that $63 million, but according to The New Republic's Greg Sargent, a lot of questions remain unanswered."After the companies agreed to these shakedowns — sorry, settlements — the fund created

During his first presidency, Donald Trump fired a long list of conservative appointees — from former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to ex-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to former National Security Advisor John Bolton to ex-White Chief of Staff John F. Kelly. Trump hasn't fired nearly as many appointees during his second presidency, as many of picks were ultra-MAGA loyalists who were unlikely to question or challenge him. The first Trump Administration had a lot more turnover than the second one.But in 2026, Trump fired two of his most prominent loyalists: first former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, then ex-U.S. Attorney General

Philadelphia-based CNN host Michael Smerconish has often said that as a conservative, one thing that infuriates him is white supremacists and neo-Nazis assuming that he will be sympathetic to their views. And Smerconish made it clear that he had no use for their ideology, which he considered antithetical to traditional conservatism and libertarianism.But in 2026, white nationalist Nick Fuentes has a substantial following within the far-right MAGA movement. And according to the Washington Post, his political operation is bringing in a lot more money than many of his critics assume.Post reporters Drew Harwell and Jeremy B. Merrill, in an

A new study featured in Political Psychology revealed that exposure to opposing political views on social media can paradoxically increase polarization by backfiring, as people double down on their beliefs when encountering disagreement. The research, based on a field experiment with Democrats and Republicans on Twitter, shows that financial incentives to follow bots sharing counter-attitudinal content still led to the reinforcement of partisan attitudes rather than moderation.Eric Dolan at PsyPost cited the study, noting that identifying those who believe

The New Republic's Greg Sargent started off Monday with his podcast exploring the contempt President Donald Trump has for his own voters. Speaking to colleague Perry Bacon, who has a new piece on the far-right across the world turning on Trump, Sargent describes fears of being "excommunicated" for lacking sufficient devotion, a perfect indication that the movement became a cult.In one of his Sunday TruthSocial rants, Trump claimed, “I have among the best poll numbers I

Donald Trump has run for president four times, starting with a short-lived Reform Party campaign in late 1999 and early 2000. And in all four campaigns, his supporters argued that he should be president because he was a "smart businessman." Trump is now 15 months into his second presidency, and many polls are showing weak approval ratings when it comes to his handling of the economy.In an op-ed/essay published by the New York Times on April 20, Amit Seru — a finance progressor at the Stanford University Bus

Although U.S. President Donald Trump is saying that the United States' military operation in Iran will likely be wrapped up soon, many of his critics aren't so sure and fear that it could turn into a "forever war" if ground troops are sent into Iran. One of those critics is The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson, a Never Trump conservative and former GOP strategist. During a "Fast Politics" video with liberal co-host Molly Jong-Fast posted on YouTube on Sunday night, April 19, Wilson argued that U.S. military leaders distrust Trump during wartime.When Jong-Fast told Wi