Category: Politics

President-elect Joe Biden has named his picks for key health positions, including Vivek H. Murthy as surgeon general, Xavier Becerra as HHS secretary and Rochelle Walensky as CDC director.

A few of the conservative women, whose parents fled communist and socialist countries, said they plan to challenge the liberal “Squad” led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

Asian American activists, along with other civil rights leaders, are increasingly concerned that minority groups will not be sufficiently represented in the top tier of the Biden administration.

Ellis serves as special counsel to the Thomas More Society, raising questions about the independence of what has appeared to be a separate legal endeavor.

From an award given to an opponent in Scotland to failing to cheat in a CNBC poll, Trump’s response has been consistent.

If this weekend is any indication, the Trump team is about to go out in a blaze of not-exactly-glory.

At the county level, presidential voting has gotten more polarized.

Both his effort to steal a second consecutive term and the country’s response to the pandemic have fallen apart.

It was very possible, as evidenced in large part by the fact that it happened.

Justices must decide whether Congress has provided a way for U.S. courts to hear allegations of wrongdoing in Germany and Hungary.

The rush has come despite the president’s relative inattention to governing since his electoral defeat last month, driven in part by ideologically minded aides, including Cabinet members eager to burnish their own legacies.

In this edition: The president’s election-rejection tour, the wild charges being made in Georgia’s Senate races, and the final election of 2020.