Where Trump has gotten aggressive is around dismantling the many diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that Democrats like Joe Biden have long supported. Trump will eliminate DEI from the Pentagon and has empowered his acolytes in the federal government to ferret out anything that has the scent of social justice.

While the president achieved significant successes, especially early in his tenure, his presidency will be remembered as one that did not suit the times.

Imagine the howling from Republicans if the D.C. plane crash had happened on Biden's watch. Trump had just fired key aviation officials in the days leading up to the accident. Wouldn't it be better, instead of rushing to blame, if we mourned the tragedy and the lives lost?

No 1970s-era disco group came out in the marbled halls of the Capitol. But it would scarcely have been a surprise.

At almost the last minute, President Biden issued surprising preemptive pardons for some of Donald Trump’s enemies. On Monday morning, Biden issued pardons to Anthony Fauci, the infectious diseases expert who took on the Covid-19 pandemic,

CBP One was used by the Biden administration to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants into the country to pursue asylum claims.

After four years covering a White House that prided itself on the clockwork predictability of process and routine, political reporters awoke on Tuesday morning to the familiar feeling of Trumpian

open image in gallery Joe Biden announced a series of preemptive presidential pardons ... Valentina Gomez, a controversial MAGA zealot and congressional hopeful, added: “Fauci, Liz Cheney & Miley deserve prison, not pardons. These so called ...

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This would only be surprising to someone who time-traveled in a DeLorean from 1955 to 2025 and discovered Biff had been elected president.

It’s the divide of our new troubled age: Anticipation faces trepidation as Donald Trump takes office again. MAGA celebrates while Madisonians shiver — and not due to the meteorological cold but from fear of a big constitutional chill.

Musk makes his first federal political contribution in 2003, the same year he becomes chairman of Tesla. According to Federal Election Commission records, he gave the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign $2,000 that year, and the same amount to Democratic nominee John Kerry’s presidential campaign the following year.