Barack Obama clung to leadership of the Democratic Party after leaving the presidency, but Democrats may move on.

The early moves in the 2028 White House race, at least among the Democrats, are getting underway as potential presidential contenders grab plenty of attention ...

Jonathan Martin is POLITICO’s senior political columnist and politics bureau chief. He’s covered elections in every corner of America and co-authored a best-selling book about Donald Trump and Joe ...

A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher ...

Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy wants a pardon from President Donald Trump. And why not? Isn't everybody these days?

If you’re going to embrace performative politics, be sure you give a good performance. Instead, the Dems at President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress looked like an angry and lonely ...

The search for Chicago’s 42nd U.S. attorney comes at a significant moment in history for an office long extolled as a model ...

There was shockingly low voter turnout for the 2025 Cook County races, even though local government has a greater impact on citizens than federal.

One thing about surviving under an authoritarian oligarchy is that the circle of life doesn’t change much from how things go down under a democratic republic. My schedule has been erratic this winter ...

NASA officials announced Friday that the return date for the Starliner astronauts has changed again. This new date resulted ...

The Democrats showed last week that presidential addresses to Congress are no place to mount a resistance. Almost everything ...