Henry Laufer is a mathematician who was chief scientist at Renaissance Technologies. Along with his wife, Marsha, a former local Democratic party chair, he has given to support Democrats and liberal ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. New York City billionaire John Catsimatidis has long been immersed in ...

A voter casts their ballot at a polling station at Chesterbrook Elementary School in McLean, Virginia, on Nov. 4, 2025.Graeme Sloan—Bloomberg via Getty Images The last decade taught us painful lessons ...

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...

The 42nd week of his second administration was another busy one for President Donald Trump. This week, Trump signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in history, backed using H-1B ...

The ripple effects of the longest ever government shutdown are slowly alleviating after the federal funding impasse officially ended on Nov. 12. President Donald Trump signed legislation on Nov. 12 ...

Most Americans now believe Republicans, rather than Democrats, won the government shutdown fight, according to a new poll published Nov. 15. The CBS News and YouGov poll, conducted between Nov. 13 and ...

The government is back open. It was the longest shutdown in U.S. history at 43 days. There are lots of questions about what this means, how we got here and where we go from here. Let's answer some: ...

Emails: Epstein repeatedly ridiculed Trump during 1st term as 'f**king crazy,' 'dangerous,' 'not one decent cell in his body' Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett received text messages from ...

Airlines say they are ready to ramp up to full flight operations once they get government clearance. Trump withdraws his support for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Trump issued a scathing social media ...