Politics moves fast, and finding reliable coverage without constant outrage can be difficult. A Skeptic News brings together a wide range of daily political reporting, analysis, and commentary from across the spectrum — curated with a focus on balance, substance, and moderation. Whether you're center-left, center-right, or simply tired of partisan noise, you'll find informed perspectives worth reading every day. Today's edition includes 92 articles from 21 sites. We chose these from 1562 articles found on 40 sites.
Don’t count on filling up for much less on that summer road trip.
The majority leader is no fan of Graham Platner, but he’s more focused than ever on knocking out Susan Collins — and winning back the Senate.
The defense minister’s resignation could prove a political catastrophe. The post Healey Throws a Hand Grenade Into Starmer’s Political Future appeared first on The American Conservative.
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Todd Belt of George Washington University about whether there's a strategy behind President Trump's fixation on a UFC fight and building projects across Washington, D.C.
A small, eccentric electorate gets to oust the UK’s leaders and then chooses largely inadequate replacements. It’s an absurd process and we’re locked into it againOne thing is clear. British politics has yet to rid itself of the torments of the past decade. The resignation of Keir Starmer’s defence ...
President Trump has nominated Jay Clayton, the former chairman of the SEC, to serve as director of national intelligence. It follows a pick for acting director that caused an uproar on Capitol Hill.
Talarico told MS NOW’s Jen Psaki he didn’t believe either Republican was in a “position to tell anybody what a real man is.” The post James Talarico hits back at Cruz’s and Paxton’s ‘cheap’ attacks on...
Their new deadline for the war: Labor Day.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) predicted in a new interview that the two years after the November midterm elections will be the “most miserable two years” of President Trump’s life. Cornyn spoke with The New York Times in his first extensive interview following his defeat to Texas Attorney General Ken P...
In today’s newsletter, Joe answers reader questions and catches you up on the best of “Morning Joe” from the week. The post You asked, Joe answered appeared first on MS NOW.
For decades, immigrants who are legal permanent residents in the U.S. could get loans through the Small Business Administration, a core pillar of small-business lending. Not anymore.
Washington, D.C.‘s 2026 election cycle will feature ranked choice voting and fresh faces, with longtime politicians opting out of reelection. Alaska and Maine are the only states that use ranked choice voting, which allows voters to choose candidates in order of preference. If a candidate doesn’t r...
Anti-abortion protestors gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court. | Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images About a year ago, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood (2025). In Medina, South Carolina committed an obvious violation of federal Medicaid law, but the Cour...
Dana White likes to say he sells "holy sh*t moments for a living." Sunday night, the UFC CEO will attempt his magnum opus on the biggest stage in combat sports history.Why it matters: The UFC and President Trump have forged one of the most successful cultural alliances in modern politics, carrying m...
Spencer Pratt claims he has a recording that could force a Los Angeles mayoral candidate to resign, teasing a "Phase III" plan after finishing third.
Plus: SpaceX's initial public offering, L.A. taking S.F.'s place, matchmaking reinvented, and more...
On Thursday, federal appeals court ruled that President Trump’s 10 percent global tariff is likely legal, deciding it can remain in place until the court delivers its final word. Trump imposed the new levy after the Supreme Court invalidated his previous emergency tariffs as exceeding his authority...
In Georgia, a new interpretation of state law could force many health clinics run by nurse practitioners to close. Under… The post Brickbat: Volunteer Medicine appeared first on Reason.com.
The large-scale job losses opponents have predicted for decades did not appear in any state we studied.
Rising prices since 2020 have made it a tough period for middle-class families.
The debate over President Trump's immigration policy has focused primarily on a surge in at-large deportations, which have mostly affected people with little or no criminal history. The sweeping campaign has tripped up construction workers, housekeepers, and even toddlers. Indeed, a new analysis sho...
Inflationary pressures are beginning to wane. Explore the latest data through interactive charts
The political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is quietly putting massive sums into helping the group's chair, Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), win his primary, Axios has learned.Why it matters: The spending signals how much peril Espaillat's allies think he is facing from democratic sociali...
Former first son Hunter Biden on Friday defended Graham Platner, the embattled progressive candidate running for U.S. Senate in Maine, urging voters to give him a break during an appearance on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) podcast. Platner, a Marine veteran and oyster farmer, has faced mounting scrutin...
There’s legitimate debate as to whether the rules—which the European Commission approved in 2024 after years of negotiation among the EU’s 26 member states—have real teeth and will work as intended. And time to limit the political destabilization mass migration has wrought across Europe may indeed b...
Senate Republicans say they are in no mood to back President Trump’s demand that Congress use the budget reconciliation process a third time to provide another $350 billion to the Pentagon. The GOP senators, who just slogged through an overnight 18-hour series of votes last week to pass a $70 billio...
Trump's Department of Justice is seeking patient files that include the names of young people who have been treated in transgender clinics, as well as hospital staff who have provided care.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Virginia on Thursday over its new requirements, including a mask ban, for federal agents operating in the commonwealth, alleging the laws are an “unconstitutional attempt to regulate” federal law enforcement operations. “Law enforcement officers risk their lives...
Trump's Sunday affair speaks to his affection for ambitious construction and affinity for sports — but isn’t designed to help Republicans.
The president and his party have had a rough start to June, after a spring full of MAGA primary victories and redistricting gains.
The lieutenant governor and the top elections official, both Republicans, are investigating whether the challenger coordinated with a Democrat to confuse voters.
Upcoming Israeli elections give the U.S. president leverage he can use. The post Trump, Not Netanyahu, Has the Cards. He Should Play Them appeared first on The American Conservative.
Endorsement by former soldier, despite party’s apparent efforts to distance itself from him, is likely bid to attract Restore Britain votersReform UK’s candidate in the Makerfield byelection has been criticised for welcoming an endorsement by Ant Middleton, the former soldier and TV presenter who th...
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware about President Trump's new nominee to oversee the U.S. intelligence community.
The DOJ accuses California of blocking a federal audit of voter rolls as the dispute over registration records intensifies in the Ninth Circuit.
These arguments are relatively weak. And to the extent they are valid, they can be addressed without changing the Court's ideological balance.
President Donald Trump announced that the head of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as Nino Guerrero, was killed in a U.S. airstrike, in coordination with the Venezuelan government. “At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swif...
A refugee community in upstate New York gets ready to root for the home team.
Relocation, by itself, is not evidence of success.
The liberal bureaucrats who embraced mass immigration have a big problem on their hands. The post After a Shocking Crime in Belfast, Ireland Wakes Up appeared first on The American Conservative.
As the World Cup kicks off, cracks are emerging in Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s carefully tended relationship with President Donald Trump — over trade, cartels and a brewing extradition standoff.
A Biden-appointed judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstall scrapped exhibits about slavery and climate change that had been removed from parks and monuments across the country. U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley issued a preliminary injunction upon the request of a group arguing the Interio...
ICE arrested multiple killers, rapists and drug traffickers Thursday, with DHS saying nearly 70% of arrests involve aliens convicted of crimes.
New public data for redistricting and other uses may be reduced as Trump officials limit the ways the Census Bureau can protect people's privacy when it releases statistics.
Bell hotel in Epping was scene of violent protests after asylum seeker living there sexually assaulted girl and womanAsylum seekers have been removed from the Epping hotel that became a flashpoint for anti-immigration protests across England last summer as the Home Office terminates its contract wit...
In some states, average wages have outpaced inflation. Not everyone has been so lucky.
Green surge in local elections and recent polling of Labour members may cause government to toughen stance on IsraelMiddle East crisis – live updatesPro-Palestine activists believe there could be a “sea change” in the Labour party’s approach to the crisis in the Middle East which could result in the...
Internal DOJ emails reveal officials allegedly called Garland's 2021 school board memo "stupid" and warned it would look like an "Anti-MAGA Task Force."
CFTC Chair Mike Selig told Semafor he's weighing more lawsuits against states that try to regulate those markets.
Lawmakers are ratcheting up pressure on major political fundraising platforms ActBlue and WinRed as both parties intensify scrutiny of online campaign donations ahead of this fall’s high-stakes midterm elections. Republicans, including top Trump officials, have long alleged that ActBlue, the dominan...
Outgoing Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas predicted that President Donald Trump will experience "disaster" in the 2026 midterm elections.
Romanian prime minister nominee Eugen Tomac failed to secure the endorsement of a second pro-European party, clouding his election prospects in the country’s fractious parliament.
The first time I remember being told that our two major parties had "few major differences," I was seated next to Ralph Nader on a plane for a story I was doing on him just ahead of the 2000 presidential election. He was the Green Party alternative to Al Gore and George W. Bush that year.
From a Justice Department press release Wednesday: "… In the dead of night, masked and hooded defendants allegedly threw noxious… The post "Eight Conspirators … Threatened University of Michigan Officials, Businesses, and the Jewish Federation" appeared first on Reason.com.
Abraham George, chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, was ousted by Vice Chairwoman D’rinda Randall at the state’s GOP convention on Friday. The leadership change dealt a blow to Republicans allied with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who won the Republican primary runoff for the Senate last...
As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, the nation faces two megatrends - a rapidly increasing national debt and unprecedented population shifts - which could have serious consequences for the future of the country.
El Cajon sues California AG Rob Bonta, claiming sanctuary laws prevent local police from checking on unaccompanied migrant children's safety.
In today’s edition, we look ahead to what’s at stake for President Donald Trump in a handful of upcoming Republican primary runoffs.
The government says more than 60% of the president's daily intelligence briefing relies on information collected under a tool known as FISA Section 702. But Congress has struggled to renew it.
The upcoming UFC event at the White House comes as President Trump has been politically on rocky ground.
AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how fast the technology should develop, the best way to regulate it, and how to prepare society for smarter-than-human AI, among other things. That makes it all the more rema...
Ask Democrats what they think about Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D-Ga.) political future these days and they’ll likely give the same answer: He needs to win reelection in November first. But as the party searches for younger leaders and a wide-open race for the Democratic nomination begins to take shape, the...
Ahead of next May’s French presidential election, France, the Eurozone’s second largest economy, appears to be heading towards a sovereign debt crisis. At a time when its public debt is already on a clearly unsustainable path, the French economy is being hit by an Iran-induced energy price shock, ri...
President Trump is hosting a UFC fight on the White House lawn on his birthday.
Ice skating’s governing body is gliding into a presidential election Friday free of the turmoil that just gripped its Olympic sibling skiing
A giant "8647" message was found etched into grass on the National Mall, prompting a U.S. Park Police investigation amid threats against Trump.
On Thursday evening, President Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with news he did not want to hear: He expected to sign a deal with Iran within days."This is the deal. It's a great deal, and it's time to end this war," Trump told Netanyahu, according to a senior U.S. official.Wh...
South Korea's ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and his former defense minister were sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday in a case alleging Yoon ordered drone flights over Pyongyang in 2024 to heighten tensions with North Korea and justify declaring martial law at home.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott proposes statewide prosecutor, bail reforms and measures to remove rogue DAs as crime dominates the political debate in Texas.
A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to reinstall displays it removed from National Parks sites over the past year as part of a crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) content and climate change information. A group of park advocacy organizations sued the ...
The United Arab Emirates released billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets as an olive branch to ward off further attacks, according to a report. Four sources told Reuters that the UAE agreed to release $10 to $20 billion in frozen Iranian assets, $3 billion of which has been released, in exchan...
The ruling is flawed on both substantive and procedural grounds.
In a unanimous opinion, the court ruled that it is unconstitutional for officers to stop and frisk someone based solely on suspicion that the person is carrying a gun.
Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico flip-flopped on border security, gun control, and transgender issues during a podcast interview this week.
There is growing momentum within the Democratic Party to find its next ObamaCare heading into the midterms, as healthcare costs become more untenable and American anger over affordability persists. Healthcare has consistently ranked as a top issue for voters heading into this year’s midterm electio...
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution draws upon writings and speeches you might not have heard of.
President Donald Trump announced a U.S. military strike that killed Tren de Aragua leader Niño Guerrero, calling it retribution for victims of violent crime.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged not to step down over a dispute with of his former defense chief, signaling that he would try to hold onto the job through a key election next week.
Chile’s foreign affairs minister is eager to resume full diplomatic relations with Venezuela before the government’s term ends in 2030 to facilitate the return of tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants. The ball is now in Venezuela’s court, he said.
Ken Salazar, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, reveals he considered running for president against Biden after the 2024 debate, per a new book excerpt.
Platner is too typical of a wave of radical and unprepared Democrats who seem poised to take power.
Pratt’s concession comes days after the AP projected Councilmember Nithya Raman and incumbent Mayor Karen Bass will advance to the November general election. The post Spencer Pratt concedes LA mayoral...
In an interview with MS NOW, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama defended plans for a luxury coastal resort linked to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. The post Albanian PM dismisses concerns over Kushner-...
Most Americans say the country's best days are behind it as the U.S. approaches its 250th birthday, even as they're personally hopeful about the future.Why it matters: A new Pew Research Center analysis reveals national pessimism, fueled by political polarization and institutional distrust. But the ...
Follow President Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.