A curious thing happened on the way to Kamala Harris’s defeat by Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. The group that was supposed to pull her triumphantly across the finish line ...

Stories of deep partisan differences between men and women were common in the 2024 campaign, but they seem to have taken on a new intensity as we approach the holidays. The HuffPost Personal essay ...

When people talk about Illinois politics, they often reference Chicago. But when Chicagoans talk about politics, they talk about Springfield, the state capital where I was born and raised.

How could the Democrats have been so foolish? That’s the subtext of a lot of their recriminations, served with a generous helping of I-told-you-so’s from different factions of the party.

“To expect the unexpected,” Oscar Wilde wrote in his 1895 play An Ideal Husband, “shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” If so, then when it comes to predicting developments in the second ...

Donald Trump hopes to supercharge economic growth, restore manufacturing employment, and raise wages by imposing across-the-board tariffs of at least 10%, with even higher duties on Chinese goods.

The Middle East has long been a source of misery for Washington. It could be a land of opportunity for Donald Trump. In his first term as president, Trump brokered diplomatic détentes between ...

In 1947, the College Board opened an office in Berkeley, California. Previously, from the turn of the century onward, the organization had been administering entrance examinations for schools in ...

President Donald Trump made gains among nearly every single demographic group in his historic victory, particularly with Hispanic and young voters. As the Democratic Party asks itself how it lost ...

The November 2024 presidential election has set the United States on a new course for national security and foreign policy. Vice President Kamala Harris, like President Joseph Biden before her ...