Politics

Thomas Homan, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, speaks at the Republican National Convention in July 2024. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) Four months ago, Thomas Homan, a former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Donald Trump, took to the stage at the Republican National Convention to issue a warning to … Read more

President Reagan paid a campaign-style visit to Wall Street Thursday, touting his economic policies and chastising U.S. trading partners for causing “painful dislocations” in American exporting industries by failing to follow the example of his Administration. Despite the passing acknowledgement of record-breaking U.S. trade deficits, Reagan delivered an uncompromisingly bullish pep talk to floor traders … Read more

President Trump speaks during an event promoting religion in schools in the Oval Office on Thursday. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) President Trump unveiled a slew of rule proposals on Thursday intended to expand the ability of religious groups to get federal money and to loosen restrictions on how they spend it, courting a valuable … Read more

Arthur B. Laffer, professor, businessman and possible candidate for next year’s Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from California, speeds down the freeway in his telephone-equipped BMW 733i, sipping a can of Diet Pepsi and reflecting on his life in the fast lane. The impatient energizer of the nationwide tax-cut movement–a tenured professor at age … Read more

President Obama’s advisors are confident that liberals dismayed by his agreement to extend tax breaks for the wealthy will forgive him by the time the 2012 election kicks into gear. But the current backlash on the left may intensify the immediate challenge Democrats face in building a new campaign finance apparatus to challenge Republican-allied outside … Read more

Former President Trump surrendered and was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via Associated Press) Former President Trump surrendered to authorities in Georgia on Thursday night after being indicted last week and accused of conspiring with allies to overturn the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden. After … Read more

As the Supreme Court begins its new term Monday, its sixth with John G. Roberts Jr. as chief justice, the reality is that this is the most conservative court since the mid-1930s. Since Richard Nixon ran for president in 1968, conservatives have sought to change constitutional law, and they have succeeded in virtually every area. … Read more

Passage of Measure HLA will result in hundreds of miles of new bike lanes, like this one in Culver City, in the streets of Los Angeles. (Citizens of the Planet / Universal Images Group ) Backers of a citizen-sponsored ballot initiative that forces Los Angeles to add hundreds of miles of bike and bus lanes … Read more

Rep. Augustus Hawkins, 81, vividly remembers riding a bus in his home town of Los Angeles many years ago when a white woman sat down beside him. “She kept moving over to be next to me,” he recalled, “and then she said, ‘You know, we sure are getting a lot of blacks in this neighborhood. … Read more

Israeli and Palestinian leaders revived their stalled peace process Monday, agreeing to resume direct talks on implementing existing accords and to start new bargaining to clear the way for negotiations over the final status of the land that both claim as their ancestral home. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who mediated the agreement between Israeli … Read more