America is one year away from the most consequential and negative campaign most have seen. So important and virulent, it is worth taking stock of now. Both sides have great weaknesses, which present the other great opportunities. However, the greater opportunity is Donald Trump’s, so despite his seemingly perilous position, the election remains his to lose. Next […]

U.S. immigration officials apprehended just more than 42,000 individuals at the southern border with Mexico in October, acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said Thursday, marking a drop from the previous month and a sharp decline from earlier this year. “This represents an overall decrease of almost 70 percent since the peak in May […]

One of the issues being hotly debated among presidential candidates and political operatives leading up to the 2020 campaign isn’t health care, or the economy — it’s free speech. Why it matters: Disagreements about how to apply the First Amendment to the speed and scale of social media are consuming the political debate this election cycle […]

President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that a new site for the signing of “phase one” of the U.S.-China trade deal will be “announced soon” after Chile canceled the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit slated for next month due to ongoing protests in the country. Why it matters, via Axios’ Jonathan Swan: Trump’s tweet is the most definitive sign yet that the U.S. and […]

President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that the terrorist who would have replaced the now-deceased Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the leader of ISIS has also been killed by U.S. forces. “Most likely would have taken the top spot — Now he is also Dead!” Trump wrote. Al-Baghdadi was killed over the weekend in a raid conducted by […]