Welcome to 538's politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited.

As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?

Psychedelia sent the rumour mill into overdrive concerning The Beatles - here we count down 10 of the strangest conspiracies ...

Donald Trump is forming the youngest US administration in the last quarter of a century. The average age of the key members of his new team is 51.8 years, Izvestia calculated. This figure not only ...

Trump is using the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) as legal justification for the tariffs, the successor to the Trading With the Enemy Act (TWEA) that Richard Nixon used for his 10 ...

Stefan Korshak, Kyiv Post’s military correspondent, shares his perspective on recent developments in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, alias FDR, is the longest-serving president in the history of the US. His presidency lasted 12 years. That means he served three presidential terms of four years each. His rule ...

The Democratic National Committee chose Mr. Martin, the leader of the Minnesota Democrats, to help oversee a demoralized ...

Weissmann referenced the so-called “ Saturday Night Massacre ” of October 1973, when then-President Richard Nixon fired ...

United States President Donald Trump had imposed 25 per cent tariff on all imports from Mexico and Canada, and 10 per cent ...

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, ...

President Donald Trump’s dramatic pause of federal grants and loans is queuing up a Supreme Court showdown over the Constitution that will test the court’s recently muscular commitment to curb ...