It took less than six months for Speaker Mike Johnson to reach his existential moment. The Louisiana Republican has arrived at fateful but familiar crossroads where he must either choose to honor a conventional vision of US national interests or side with the wrecking ball antics of his party's far-right bloc.
Will Doing 'the Right Thing' Cost Speaker Johnson?
President Joe Biden is casting the 2024 election partly as a referendum on Donald Trump, but it's a harder card to play now that he's in office and some voters have warming memories of the former president's chaotic term.
Biden Up Against Nostalgia for Trump’s First Term
Donald Trump will make his most concentrated effort yet to turn his criminal trial into a political asset in the next two days, heading from the courtroom to the campaign trail and back again.
Trump Will Go From the Trial to the Trail and Back Again
Dramatic campus protests are injecting an inflammatory new element into an election year that is already threatening to stretch national unity to a breaking point.
Student Unrest Ratchets Up an Already Tense Election Year