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The psychology of success relies on disappointment
There’s an upside to disappointment. No, really. According to psychologists, if you learn to harness disappointments and use them to examine expectations, learn from experience, and fuel your...
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Republicans lost their last urban district last night
The US has 34 “purely urban congressional districts,” reports CityLab. Until Nov. 6, Republicans controlled just one: New York’s 11th district, which covers Staten Island and south Brooklyn. But last...
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American voters are more worried about climate change than ever
It feels like a standard-issue attack ad—menacing voiceover, pulsing underscore, rust-tinted photos that signal dirt, grime, corruption. The narrator warns of a politician surrounded by “shady...
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Where does Beto O’Rourke go next?
Four million votes in conservative Texas are a terrible thing for Democrats to waste. And that’s how many were cast Tuesday for Beto O’Rourke, the party’s candidate for the US Senate. Though O’Rourke...
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Why is Florida so bad at elections?
Updated Nov. 9 at 9:00am EDT Florida races for governor and the US Senate that appeared to have been decided on election night are now being declared uncertain instead, as new votes are tallied up and...
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Florida has five days to tally more than 8 million ballots
Florida elections have been notorious since 2000, when a difference of just 537 votes between presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore prompted a recount that led to endless analysis of the...
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Half of the Republicans in the climate solutions caucus just lost their seats
The blue wave that swept over the House of Representatives broke on the head of Republicans in the Climate Solutions Caucus. The bi-partisan congressional group tackling global warming will lose at...
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Trump has been astonishingly successful at getting Republicans to believe in...
President Donald Trump has an uncanny ability to influence public opinion, though it’s mostly led Americans to disagree with him. His approval rating is now submerged below 40%, according to Gallup....
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What would a US government shutdown mean for military, mail delivery, and...
The Trump White House is determined to shut down the government on Dec. 21, in an attempt to get funding for a border wall with Mexico. So what happens to federal services if the government closes for...
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Trump’s Syria surprise is a new attempt to distract from bad news at home
Donald Trump’s decision on Dec. 19 to pull US troops out of Syria wasn’t vetted by the Pentagon, the State Department, Congress, or US allies, and his rationale for it is false, foreign policy experts...
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Will the Trump presidency survive 2019?
The big year-ahead question looming in Washington right now is a simple but brutal one: Will Donald Trump’s presidency survive 2019? Doubts about whether Trump will serve a full term have haunted him...
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A Guatemalan village buries Jakelin Caal Maquin, 7, who died in US custody
The family of Jakelin Caal Maquin, who died in US custody, said goodbye to the 7-year-old girl in a funeral in San Antonio Secortez, Guatemala on Christmas Day (Dec. 25). Friends and family carry a...
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Why ousting a Muslim party official would probably backfire on the Texas GOP
Tarrant County, home to two million residents in the sprawling Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, is the last urban enclave in Texas still in GOP hands—just barely. Republicans’ shrinking lead has local...
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Trump’s fight for a border wall is earning the blame he asked for
In his testy meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer on Dec. 11, Donald Trump was clear about who would bear responsibility for a government shutdown if he couldn’t get at least $5 billion in...
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The US government owes federal workers almost $5 billion in back pay
The US government shutdown has blown a nearly $5 billion hole in federal workers’ finances. That’s the amount of back pay that has accumulated since the shutdown began on Dec. 22, according to...
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US Customs and Border Protection’s radical new approach to a wall—the boring,...
Donald Trump has made sure everyone knows what he wants in terms of border security: $5.7 billion for a border wall he says is going to protect the US and bring relief to overstretched Border Patrol...
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Republicans set a high bar for Trump’s impeachment—and he is alleged to have...
Updated Jan. 19 with the special counsel’s statement. Donald Trump’s behavior as president has sparked talk of whether he could, or should, be impeached almost since his inauguration. And from the...
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To end the shutdown the Senate will try a Hail Mary and a lost cause
The US Senate will vote Thursday (Jan. 24) on a proposal that could end the stalemate over funding for a wall on the border with Mexico that has kept parts of the US government closed for 32 days. On...
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Roger Stone and Donald Trump’s complicated 30-year history
After Republican political consultant Roger Stone was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation this morning (Jan. 25) on charges of obstruction, witness tampering, and making false statements,...
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Trump folds on border wall money to end the government shutdown he started
The US government’s historic 35-day shutdown is coming to an end, after Donald Trump agreed to sign a short-term spending agreement with Congress that doesn’t include any money for the border wall that...
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