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A pair of polls released on Sunday, American time, demonstrated just how much his political opponents have fallen. One of those polls, from NBC News, actually showed the Democratic Party’s ...

Letters & Politics Winter Book Collection Includes: Heretic by Catherine Nixey The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone The Rise of Athens by Anthony Everitt Emperor of Rome by … Continued ...

Political independents as a group take dim views of both parties, with 19% rating the Democrats favorably and 20% saying the same of the Republicans. Both the Democratic and the Republican parties ...

“Joe Biden set out not just to defeat Donald Trump but to defeat Trumpism,” Chotiner says. “And he failed at that.” ...

Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa said that Duterte’s arrest by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) was the Marcos administration’s political maneuver. “What reason did ...

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has announced changes to the welfare system - including merging some benefits and a plan to scrap the work capability assessment used to claim universal credit.

Because of accounting issues in South Carolina’s books, the previous comptroller general and the state auditor have resigned.

March 21, 2025 • Here are five takeaways from a week when President Trump moved ahead with deportations and sweeping changes to the federal government — and ran into obstacles in the courts.

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Kansas voters will decide in August 2026 whether to approve a constitutional amendment to elect state Supreme Court justices.