President Biden emphasized allies’ resolve in his State of the Union address, but acknowledged Russia may not be deterred from further efforts to reconstitute the Soviet bloc.
The speech was originally going to center primarily on the president’s domestic agenda. But the war in Europe has forced the White House to change gears.
Former President Donald J. Trump’s brand of populism has been widely viewed as an appeal to white voters. But similar grievances have resonated in the Rio Grande Valley in a profound way.
Members of the court’s conservative majority voiced skepticism that Congress had authorized the agency to decide what they said were major political and economic questions.
When the Russian leader ordered his nuclear forces into “special combat readiness,” the U.S. could have gone on high alert. Instead, the administration tried not to inflame him.
William P. Barr’s memoir of his time as attorney general under George H.W. Bush and then again under Donald J. Trump defends his more recent leadership of the Justice Department.