Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clumsily dodged a question about where he’d draw the line on the use of federal forces against protesters. During a hearing of the Senate Armed Services...

Donald Trump has reportedly given White House deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller one of his patented uninspired nicknames.  In an interview on The Daily Beast’s podcast, Fire and Fury...

Mencken! Thou shouldst be here at this hour. I didn’t start reading H.L. Mencken until middle age, partly because certain ugly aspects to his character came to light during my youth, partly because...

Billionaire Bill Ackman has spent the last few days trying to get the U.S. military involved in Israel’s war on Iran. “The parade was great. Our military is incredible,” Ackman...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 18 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The...

Senator Mike Lee fled from reporters asking him about his deeply disturbing X posts making a mockery of the murder of Minnesota Democratic state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband,...

Hours after Donald Trump complained before the G7 that Russia had been kicked out of the global trade coalition, the Kremlin ordered air strikes on Kyiv that killed 15 people—including...

Dissent against Donald Trump is bubbling within his administration—but people are too scared to act on it. Some White House staffers no longer believe that Trump is fit to be...

Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would increase the total U.S. deficit by nearly $2.8 trillion over the next decade, according to a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office. Previous...

In 2016, two months before he was first elected president, Donald Trump identified the real problem with America’s invasion of Iraq. It wasn’t that it caused hundreds of thousands of...