Our Sunday cartoon isn’t exaggerating; it’s prophetic. This is what happens when the Overton window doesn’t shift—it dislocates entirely. We’ve come full circle. The fringe is the new center, and ...

Pat kindly helped this Kansas boy find his way around Utah culture, history and politics when I drifted into town 23 years ago. He threw some of the best New Year’s Eve parties, stirred up a mean ...

Ms. Monaco-Vavrik studied political science and communications at Davidson College. It became a habit, she said in a recent ...

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Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid off in ...

Zohran Mamdani’s responses on a 2009 college application were criticized by his mayoral rivals. The blowback was dismissed by ...

New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani identified as both Asian and African American on his 2009 Columbia ...

Saturday’s political cartoons include an extrajudicial detainment camp, 'alligator Alcatraz', and tax cuts for billionaires.

That absolutism was tempered somewhat in Trump’s first term by the sensible cap on the state and local tax deduction. But the new legislation raises that cap and offers a larger tax break for heirs ...

The first lesson is that ideas really do matter. This legislation did not happen because the public or lobbyists were ...

The high-stakes deal that came together this week resulted from months of back-and-forth among a constellation of power ...

When the history of Donald Trump’s remarkable political career is written, we should all hope, if only for the sake of ...