Author: Susan Page, USA TODAY

The expanding spider’s web that is ensnaring the former president now includes federal charges that go to the heart of our democracy.

One in 4 voters say they would back a third-party candidate if the election were today.

Will President Biden debate challengers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson? Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly say he should.

Sure, the nation was hurtling toward a fiscal cliff. The good news for the USA, and Joe Biden, is that the pols stopped just short of the edge.

At the moment, President Joe Biden has more in common with recent predecessors who won four more years in the White House than those who didn’t.

In the wake of school shootings like that at Nashville Covenant, two-thirds in a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll say state legislatures should toughen gun laws.

At an age men are seen as authoritative, women are seen as just old, CNN’s Don Lemon showed in dismissing GOP 2024 presidential hopeful Nikki Haley.

There’s the Anti-Trump, the Next-Generation Trump, the Trump-Without-The-Baggage. Like him or not, former President Donald Trump defines the field.

As President Joe Biden delivered the State of the Union address, there was more defense than offense ahead, and more campaigning than legislating.