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Just as California’s billionaires would prefer, the public conversation around a proposed one-time tax on a fraction of their immense wealth has become centered on a single threat: They’ll leave and ...

Even as Mark Zuckerberg is now funding a pro-Becerra PAC, Steyer lacks the only two endorsements that could actually help him.

On the night of 3, 2025, Elon Musk boasted on X about his weekend spent “feeding USAID into the wood chipper.” The remark still haunts Nicholas Enrich, the career civil servant turned whistleblower ...

You don’t need to scrap planning and zoning to get abundant and affordable housing. In fact, planning and zoning can help get housing built.

Shareholders are seeking more info about how the companies collect and share data, including automatic license plate readers that cops and federal agents use to hunt immigrants.

Seems to be, but overzealous Republican state legislators steamrolling new congressional maps onto baffled voters may end up in a world of hurt.

Former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin earned $237,000 consulting for a civic organization funded in large part by two prominent benefactors. Then they maxed out their contributions to his congressional ...

Trump’s actions produce some short-run gains for his personalist brand of politics, but as the fall election approaches, they portend a divided and disabled Republican Party against energized and ...

Boston, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is returning to reality television. Despite a cabinet-level appointment, a responsibility to oversee the nation’s transportation infrastructure, airports ...

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) stands for a portrait in his office on Capitol Hill, February 12, 2026. Credit: Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images When Thomas Massie won his first hotly contested ...