Politics

President Biden speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office in 2021. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) Ronald Reagan probably didn’t realize he was starting a tradition when he wrote a note congratulating his successor and left it in the Oval Office desk drawer after two terms as president. He did that for … Read more

Workers build a stage Friday in the U.S. Capitol rotunda, where Donald Trump will be sworn in as the nation’s 47th president. (Morry Gash / Associated Press) President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in at 9 a.m. PST Monday as the 47th president of the United States among a small group of dignitaries and guests … Read more

Three-time Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives before his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Former President Trump delivered his formal acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, another step in an unprecedented campaign. Here is what was notable from his … Read more

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is interviewed by members of the National Association of Black Journalists at the WHYY studio in Philadelphia on Tuesday. (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press) Asked whether she plans to vote this year, the young woman from northern Michigan sighed slightly before explaining her hesitance. “If I do choose … Read more

Not long after Jesuit priest Jack Warner met a bearded, 22-year-old Midwesterner in 1980, the two Americans bonded, drawn together by the goals and questions that led them both to El Progreso, a small city not far from vast banana fields — the campos bananeros. Warner was 35 and had arrived a year earlier to … Read more

When Barbara Boxer arrived in the U.S. Senate, Joe Biden served as a mentor of sorts and the two grew personally close. She gives the president two weeks to assuage voter concerns about his age and mental acuity. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) When Barbara Boxer arrived in the U.S. Senate, her image as a … Read more

A miffed and misinformed constituent once sent a letter to Jerry Lewis, the Republican congressman from Redlands, informing him as follows: “I hate your movies. I hate you on TV. I wouldn’t vote for you if you were running for dogcatcher.” Another time his office received a check made out to the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. … Read more

Seizing a final opportunity to plead for thousands of jobs jeopardized by proposals to close military bases, a California congressional delegation urged an independent panel on Monday to spare the already hard-hit state from further economic hardship. A parade of 17 elected California officials told the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission that the state … Read more

Buckley turns the propaganda machine on full blast and practically canonizes President Bush for supposedly crying when he decided to order the destruction of Iraq. Let’s set the record straight as to who this man George Bush is and what he has been involved or associated with in the past. Bush is the former head … Read more

Former President Trump attends the Trump Organization’s civil fraud trial in December in New York. (Mike Segar / Associated Press) Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes. A New York jury on Wednesday found him guilty on all 34 counts in a financial scheme related to the 2016 election. … Read more