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A typical way of telling the history of the United States is to frame it as involving a series of key periods: Colonial America, the American Revolution, the Age of Expansion, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and so on.
Former U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell said Thursday on Newsmax that President Donald Trump's credibility with both Ukraine and Russia is a key reason progress is being made toward a peace deal in the ongoing war.
Firings and leadership challenges have destabilized an institution that has little margin for error.
"Wasteful" contracts, including one for "problem-solving services," worth millions of dollars have been terminated over the past several days, DOGE said.
The New York Attorney General's Office hired Abbe Lowell to defend Letitia James against accusations of fraud coming from the Trump admin. Lowell previously defended Hunter Biden.
Some of the party's most revered members are octogenarians facing primary challenges from a younger generation.
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
Israel is a struggling, desperate, deeply flawed liberal democracy.
Financial Investment Corporation and Apax, along with subsidiary Bonterra, gained control over much of the American left's infrastructure.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Éric Rohmer’s films demand patience and close attention, but they are immensely rewarding for those able to tolerate the absence of spectacle.
The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.
This is not the first time Germany has resorted to censorship in the mistaken belief that the state can contain dangerous ideas. The last time they tried this, it facilitated the rise of the Nazis.
Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.
A declaration by an ICE official unsealed by a judge says the form was “read and explained” to Venezuelan detainees, who had “no less than 12 hours” to express an intent to mount a challenge.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Thursday she is launching an investigation into the Trump administration's move to dismantle the Department of Education, citing concerns about the nationwide impact on public school students, The Hill reported.
President Trump also sought to divert blame should negotiations fall apart, a sign that he is perhaps more pessimistic about a deal than he was when he took office in January.
U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick said a presidential executive order violates the Constitution’s separation-of-powers principles and spending clause.
The Trump administration has terminated federal employees in charge of U.S. global climate policy and climate aid as part of its reorganization of the State Department, four sources familiar with the notification said. The career employees in the …
Republicans in Congress plan to introduce a sweeping $150 billion defense package that will give an initial $27 billion boost to President Donald Trump's Golden Dome missile defense shield and bolstering shipbuilding, according to a document and …
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders as well as the state's U.S. congressional delegation have sent letters this past week to the Trump administration to appeal the denial of the state's major disaster relief request.
Citing combat readiness over environmental mandates, the Navy has officially scrapped its climate action plan championed under the Biden administration.
It was typical of Joe Biden's presidency that, when faced with a difficult problem, he would take the cynical approach of finding a scapegoat to blame while making a promise he never intended to keep.
Traditional Republican elites tolerate the authoritarianism because they want the tax cuts.
His proposal to end the war isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression.
If there's one succinct way to describe Pope Francis's stewardship of the Catholic Church over the last 12 years, it might best be done with three of his own words: "todos, todos, todos" - "everyone, everyone, everyone."
If Donald Trump can disappear people to El Salvador without due process, he can do anything.
The Trump administration praised Paraguay for designating Iran’s IRGC, Hamas and Hezbollah as terror groups, calling it a key move to cut off Tehran’s global terror reach.
The Department of Transportation on Thursday said it had replaced lawyers in the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan after they accidentally filed a document outlining legal flaws with the Trump administration's plan to replace New York City's con…
An Obama-appointed federal judge in California who issued a ruling blocking the Trump administration from cutting funding to sanctuary cities has deep financial ties to the Democratic Party, records indicate.
A new U.S. peace plan offered to Russia and Ukraine proposes American recognition of the peninsula, which Moscow seized in 2014.
With “Blood and Politics,” he predicted that anti-immigrant ideologies would become part of mainstream American politics, and warned about downplaying the threat.
Fareed explains why AI's massive energy demands are straining the power grid, but also why AI could enable big breakthroughs in sustainability and clean energy.
An explosion near a UNESCO world heritage site in Yemen’s capital on Sunday killed 12 people, according to health authorities tied to the Houthi-led government.
The government will now be without a key tool it used to enforce antidiscrimination laws.
On this week’s episode, The Washington Post’s Libby Casey, James Hohmann and JM Rieger discuss the ongoing fallout between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet and administration officials, as well as the CEO's announcement Tuesday t…
Vice President Kamala Harris, a former US senator from California who previously served as the state's attorney general, could be the first Black woman and Asian American to lead a major party ticket after receiving President Joe Biden's support t…
Democrats are holding town halls in swing and deep-red districts alike, and have attracted large crowds.
Focusing on the handful of papers that are retracted for political reasons can obscure the more important problems afflicting the field of academic publishing.
Democrats can move public opinion by highlighting the unpopular aspects of his agenda.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff denied a Politico report that they may end Russian energy sanctions to help end the war in Ukraine.
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
The order declares that employees will only attain full employment status if their managers review and sign off on their performance, adding a new obstacle for probationary workers to clear.
Mystery and drama always surround a conclave, but the deeper issue is the mission of the Catholic Church in the modern world.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is offering “career support” sessions. Some federal workers said they were insulted by the idea of the workshops.
Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.
Trump is currently supporting his defense secretary, but some in the administration are speculating about how long Pete Hegseth will last.
An attack on the Pennsylvania governor shows the dangers of tendentious misrepresentations.
As the Trump administration talks itself into refusing to comply with judicial orders, federal judges are moving closer to deploying the most powerful tool they have: contempt of court.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author and TED Talker Lenore Skenazy, whose campaign to give children more opportunities for independent play and learning once earned her the title of ‘America’s Worst Mother.’
A plurality of Americans say that immigration policies have improved under President Donald Trump, according to a Center Square poll released Thursday.
The cure may be worse than the disease.
Senators Brian Schatz, Patty Murray and Sheldon Whitehouse could be considered potential successors for Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin.
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
A federal judge in San Francisco who issued a nearly identical order in 2017 found himself intervening again to stop President Trump from punishing cities over their immigration policy.
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Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
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President Donald Trump's EO demanding transparency from colleges receiving billions in foreign money is a "great move ... to make these institutions more transparent, so that the American public knows exactly what's going on," says Texas Attorney …
In the wake of the Republican National Convention earlier this month, Fareed speaks with historian Niall Ferguson about how and why the modern-day GOP has changed since the Reagan era of the 1980s.
President Donald Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate the main fundraising platform used by Democrats, who responded with accusations that he was simply weaponizing the government against his political opponents.The Rep…
The directive to investigate fundraising platforms like ActBlue shows an erosion of the traditional separation between the White House and Justice Department.
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The Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge became the Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge on Thursday to honor the life of the 12-year-old girl who was brutally murdered last year.
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Migrants are being given as few as 12 hours to contest their deportation after being formally notified, according to document from ICE unsealed Thursday.
By threatening the independence of the Federal Reserve, the president risks undermining many of his key goals.
An updated lawsuit filed in Washington was the latest in a flurry of suits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to send migrants to a prison in El Salvador.
In a recent speech delivered at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, a Quillette editor describes lessons he learned while investigating the school’s teachers college.
After a disastrous first quarter for Tesla, Musk says he is winding down his time as a special government employee. But the damage has been done.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has blocked a portion of President Donald Trump's March 25 executive order on election integrity.
A combination of ineptitude, bureaucratic turf wars and worker resistance seems to be stymieing some of Musk's initiative.
For years, millions of people traveled through Central America north to the United States. Now that flow is changing direction.
U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., urged people to call and threaten lawmakers after blaming Trump for the uptick in illegal alien detentions following a visit to a Miami ICE facility.
Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This week, California Governor Gavin Newsom sat for an interview where he chastised Democrats for refusing to explore last year's loss. Speaking with The Hill, he said: "We have not done a forensic of what just went wrong, period, full stop. I don…
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Joe Sacco’s graphic works provide vivid and moving depictions of the terrible suffering in the Strip. But his accounts of the causes of that suffering are simplistic and one-sided in the extreme.
That's why I've been watching it as carefully as I can because, again, if you hated Donald Trump and you hated what the administration is doing on immigration, trade, anti-wokeness, whatever, and you wanted to stop it, the first thing you would do…
President Donald Trump reportedly signed an executive order on Thursday that seeks to expedite U.S. mining of the ocean floor.
Florida State Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo abruptly quit as Democrat leader on Thursday and announced he's leaving the party altogether in remarks from the chamber floor.