Balance of Power with David Westin focuses on the politics and policies being shaped by the agenda of President Trump’s administration.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is finding Nevada very different from New Hampshire.

In a stark change from the Clinton era, the Democratic Presidential candidates all seem to be calling for dramatic changes to the criminal justice system. On the surface, they have many of the same positions, like ending private prisons, fixing racial disparities, and reducing incarceration. From our vantage point as scholars who are especially concerned about the impact of the law on poor and racial minority communities, we see meaningful differences.

Nevada's caucuses will showcase a state with a large non-white population. The state is using new technology to count the votes — and after Iowa's debacle, caucus officials are nervous.

In a stark change from the Clinton era, the Democratic Presidential candidates all seem to be calling for dramatic changes to the criminal justice system. On the surface, they have many of the same positions, like ending private prisons, fixing racial disparities, and reducing incarceration. From our vantage point as scholars who are especially concerned about the impact of the law on poor and racial minority communities, we see meaningful differences.

File this under: weird things bodybuilders do to show off their gains. There’s a diet out there called the tuna diet. It’s a short-term, crash diet designed to yield rapid weight loss.

Gamblers are not liking Mike Bloomberg’s odds.

From the outset of Wednesday's boxing match of a debate in Las Vegas, Democrats piled on Mike Bloomberg and never relented, forcing the billionaire former New York mayor to clumsily explain his controversial stop-and-frisk policy, history of sexual harassment complaints from women and the exorbitant amount of his own fortune he's pumped into his campaign.