Voters in swing states are unlikely to punish lawmakers for slashing health-care benefits next year. Why? The pain is postponed until after the election. Voters in swing states are unlikely to punish lawmakers for slashing health-care benefits next year. Why? The pain is postponed until after the election.

As the US heads into the June-to-November Atlantic hurricane season, many of the tools weather forecasters rely on to assess risk and warn the public have been weakened or all but dismantled by the Trump administration’s scorched-earth campaign to cut government services. Coastal states are going to feel the brunt of the impact.The deep cuts to the programs that supply data for the forecasts mean that meteorologists will be left “flying a plane in the clouds with no navigation system,” said Mich...

President Donald Trump’s push for Texas lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts in hopes of preserving the slim Republican majority in the US House is yet another example of the president putting his own fortune above his party’s.In an ideal world, it’s also a good idea — because it could lead to more competitive elections and a more representative democracy. Of course, that’s the opposite of Trump’s intention: He wants to make it more difficult for voters to punish him for his u...

Political scientists are issuing stark warnings about the way they see President Donald Trump’s second term pushing the US into authoritarianism, with its sweeping executive orders, defiance of court rulings, threats and coercion to enforce ideology, and steamrolling of a Congress that appears only too willing to give up its power.But to focus only on the White House ignores the broader picture: the gradual rise of illiberal instincts in US politics, and especially on the right. It began with th...

Late on Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to “begin eliminating” the US Department of Education. It was exactly as expected: a performative exercise that will achieve none of the president’s stated campaign promises, ​including shutting down the agency.

Republicans are taking a huge political gamble as they try to find money for tax cuts by threatening to slash Medicaid. As Congress has learned repeatedly, most recently in 2018, when the party in power messes with Americans’ health care, things don’t go well for them in midterm elections.

President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada is on hold for now but, if it resumes, it could deliver a fatal blow to one iconic American industry: Florida orange juice. If Trump resumes the reckless trade war with the US allies of Canada and Mexico, the impact of their retaliatory tariffs in Trump’s home state of Florida alone would not only raise the cost of importing Mexican juice to Florida bottlers, it could squeeze the Canadian market dry.

President Trump is making noises about slashing the disaster-management agency. That’s the wrong call in an era of climate risk. He shouldn't eliminate it. He should reform it. Here's why.

In President Trump’s inaugural address, he promised to change “an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves” and make America “the most respected nation on Earth.” But every child learns that you judge people by their deeds, not their words. As Trump’s first week in office draws to a close, it is worth asking what message his early actions are likely to teach America’s children about our country — and what impact this week’s orders is likely to have on them.

Marco Rubio is Trump's most promising Cabinet pick. If he can navigate a chaotic administration and its role on the global stage, he could be a source of generational change in the Americas.