3+ hour ago   (308+ words) “Former President Barack Obama warned during a recent private fund-raising event that artificial intelligence technology could be ‘dangerous’ if not properly managed, as he implored Democrats to aggressively develop political and governing agendas to prioritize the issue in the coming…...

10+ hour, 30+ min ago   (294+ words) “Republicans used their midterm convention this week to ask voters to preserve their congressional majorities and let them ‘finish the job,’” Politico reports. ”But with few consensus legislative goals, it’s far from clear what job they want to finish.” Think…...

16+ hour, 53+ min ago   (171+ words) The Economist: “As the midterms approach, America’s two main parties are conducting opposite experiments. Republicans march in lockstep behind Donald Trump, who summoned his troops to Dallas this week to celebrate his awesomeness…” “Democrats, by contrast, are bickering over their…...

17+ hour, 44+ min ago   (212+ words) “On the night Republicans gathered to mourn the killing of Charlie Kirk and warn against the dangers of violent rhetoric, a crowd at the party’s irregular midterm convention in Dallas repeatedly called for a sitting Senate candidate to be shot,…...

19+ hour, 34+ min ago   (138+ words) “A handful of U.S. states with some of the most competitive congressional races in the country are caught in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,” the Washington Post reports. “While the…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (197+ words) Wall Street Journal: “That a Democratic socialist mayor and a Republican vice president have found common cause disparaging free-market icons heralds the ascendance of what could be called the Horseshoe party.” “‘Horseshoe theory’ describes the tendency of the political extremes…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (296+ words) “Republican incumbents and candidates are already fundraising around President Donald Trump’s undetailed promise to send $5,000 checks out to Americans if Republicans keep control of both the House and the Senate in the November midterms,” the Washington Sun reports. Think You…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (131+ words) “Top Republicans are scrambling to shore up their Senate map in Alaska, Texas and other red states — and are privately acknowledging they could very well lose in Georgia and North Carolina,” Politico reports. “As GOP lawmakers, candidates and party officials…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (133+ words) “Sen. Ted Cruz gave a red-meat speech at the Republican convention on Thursday in which he accused the Democratic Party of succumbing to ‘communists and Islamists’ who hate Christians, Jews, capitalism and America,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “It carried…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (138+ words) “President Trump acknowledged on Fox News that he plans to block Democrats’ legislation if they retake the House and Senate after the midterms,” Axios reports. Said Trump: “I will end up being a blocker — I’ll block all their bad stuff…...