Politics

Roughly 11 months have passed since former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster in October 2023. Now, his successor, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is navigating the same fraught political...

PARIS  —  Former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe delivered a serious blow to Emmanuel Macron in announcing his candidacy for the next presidential election, while the latter struggles to rein...

The following content is sponsored by Americans for Limited Government. There’s an old joke in Washington that the vice president has only two responsibilities. The first is to ask the president...

The Democratic candidate for senate in Maryland is leading her GOP rival despite more than a third of eligible voters not recognizing her name. A poll published by Gonzales Research...

Prime minister’s questions: a shouty, jeery, very occasionally useful advert for British politics. Here’s what you need to know from the latest session in POLITICO’s weekly run-through. What they sparred...

In her forthcoming book Stolen Pride, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild describes her time spent in the towns and hollers of Kentucky’s Fifth Congressional District — one of the whitest, poorest,...

With the second-biggest debate in the history of the world just a few days away—the biggest, of course, was 2015’s great dress debate which everyone knows was won by white...

LONDON — British politicians of all parties have been heavily attacked for failing to prevent the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in West London which killed 72 people. A damning final...

Eric Trump praised Elon Musk’s X network as “amazing” after hackers breached Lara and Tiffany Trump’s accounts on the social media platform. Eric had earlier issued a panicked appeal on...

Russian airstrikes early Wednesday morning destroyed schools and residential buildings in Lviv, the nearest major Ukrainian city to the Polish border. At least seven people, including three children, were killed...