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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 suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the president’s efforts to alter geographic names.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces backlash for handing a 9/11 ceremonial pen to aide Ramzi Kassem, who represented a convicted al Qaeda member.
Tonight Germany stands on the brink of its biggest political crisis since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not since 1945 has a nationalist party of the hard-Right won power at state level in the Federal Republic. Now the Alternative for Germany (AfD)…
The conservative group’s leaders still grapple with grief. But they also have a mission: 2028.
An illegal immigrant fled ICE agents and crashed into a Democratic mayor's wife on a New Jersey highway, reigniting the sanctuary state debate.
Relatives who traveled to the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo Bay left memory stones and messages for those killed in the attacks 25 years ago.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
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…
Again the gnawing question: what to do about terrorists who should be executed when it may be impossible to try them?
Do we really want to financially incentivize access to suicide and let doctors get rich providing it?
This party is among the most extreme in Europe. To protect our democracies, liberal parties must urgently change their tactics, says Cas Mudde, author of The Far Right Today
Drawing a bright line here is the right thing to do.
Even though Donald Trump professes confidence that the nation loves him and his policies, he isn't putting his money where his mouth is - and that has Republicans running scared, especially if they are running for office.
Test your knowledge and see which campaign promises the president has achieved.
Republicans face tough midterm polls, but two months remain to turn things around. Discover five key steps the GOP must take to keep control of Congress.
To be naked is to give up obsessive self-presentation and take off the mask.
Anna D. Shapiro’s recent revival of Eric Bentley’s 1972 play about the HUAC hearings offered entertainment along with the pleasures of moral certainty and ideological reinforcement.
He doesn’t understand how any of this works.
In the New York City suburbs, appealing to moderation is a winning bet.
What the vice president is doing is changing how the money is spent to further conservative social policies.
When we return to work after the Labor Day weekend, the hope is that America will start paying attention to the stark choice offered at the midterm elections in November.
Another senseless murder elicits a depraved reaction.
Corporate America's woke machinery hasn't been dismantled - it's merely paused, and the midterm elections may determine whether Woke 2.0 returns.
Candidates have traded attacks on votes to releasing the Epstein files and political donations from those with links to Jeffrey Epstein.
The suggestion came as the president unleashed dozens of social media posts. He lacks authority to rename New Mexico or any other state.
Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said "instead of actually welcoming all world leaders," NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is "doing exactly the opposite."
Shannon Taylor touts her prosecutor past as she runs against Rep. Rob Wittman (R) for a battleground seat in Virginia.
Differences in height between men and women—a biomarker of stressor exposure in childhood—suggest that poor early health and nutrition constrain what children are achieving at school.
The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.
The two distinct races represent the last gasp of dynastic politics in a primary season largely defined by deep antiestablishment fervor.
Voters will nominate candidates for one of the most high-stakes Senate races in the country. And a Democratic House primary has emerged as a test of the party’s establishment.
Amy Acton's campaign says the Ohio governor candidate was targeted by an armed individual at the Canfield Fair as political violence fears mount.
Multiple people were injured at the event for Amy Acton at a county fair in Canfield, Ohio.
Small business owners in New York sued the Mamdani regime for using taxpayer dollars to compete against them, threatening the American Dream.
President Trump is basking in the momentum of the various projects he has spurred around downtown Washington.
‘I think there’s something admirable and rare about going to bat for your old pal.’
Karishma Manzur's socialist surge threatens Chris Pappas in the New Hampshire Senate primary as the far-left notches wins across the country.
The case against Christian Castro is unprecedented in President Donald Trump’s second term, as ICE agents face little fallout from shootings of protesters and others.
Opponents of the 250-foot triumphal arch project say it could disrupt military burials at Arlington, during construction and after its completion.
If Americans want inflation to return to normal levels, the Fed is going to have to do what it knows it has to do.
President Donald Trump headlines the first-ever GOP midterm convention in Dallas as Republicans fight to hold slim congressional majorities amid inflation.
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The Court will be presented with a kabuki dispute over a power the USPS isn’t claiming, even after the president ordered it to claim precisely that power.
The Chinese Communist Party cannot and will not accept that its time in the sun has passed. But the public knows.
The White House reposted Trump's Truth Social image showing New Mexico crossed out and rebranded as "America" days after the Lake America order.
New photos of President Trump stepping off Air Force One with what appeared to be a darker hairstyle have quickly fueled social media buzz.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Benjamin Ryan about his journalistic adventures reporting on AIDS, monkeypox, gender activism, and the Jason Arday saga.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
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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…
From Iowa to Michigan to Texas, key contests will offer clues about voters’ views of President Trump, progressive ideas, the war with Iran and more.
The swing state of Wisconsin had one of the most undemocratic State Assembly maps in the country. Now Democrats have a chance to take control of the legislature.
Three weeks before the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt went to the polls to elect a new legislature on September 6, Germany's leading news magazine, Der Spiegel, ran a cover story
Hasan Piker told Fox News his job isn't to help the Democratic Party, even as consultant James Carville called him "an idiot" who isn't a Democrat.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
Local dispatchers called for a “high-angle rescue” for the worker, who was part of a team removing scaffolding from Trump’s project on the North Portico.
An alleged assailant forced his way Sunday toward Democratic candidate Amy Acton at a county fair, officials and witnesses said. Authorities said he was carrying two pistols and a Taser.
The Trump administration does not know how to use American power to expand American influence, and its officials do not care to learn.
On this week's episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney mark Labor Day by giving their g...
A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
Progressives on Capitol Hill are pushing a proposal to ban artificial superintelligence, but critics warn the move could hand global tech dominance over to China and Russia.
The left wing of the Democratic Party flourished this summer as fed-up liberals in key races across the country have eschewed traditional, more moderate candidates in favor of hard-charging progressives.
Watching Gillo Pontecorvo’s film six decades after its release permits a nuanced understanding of the events that it portrays, which was unavailable when it first came out.
David Rubenstein purchased the sculpture, which was removed from the center last week, from the artist’s foundation. He will display it at the National Gallery of Art.
The fact that intelligence leaks may embarrass the president is not a reason to refrain from investigating them.
Political scientist Richard Hanania discusses why populism usually fails, why Western elites matter, immigration, MAGA, H-1B visas, housing and declining fertility.
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.
Antiestablishment candidate Randy Villegas is testing the conventional wisdom about what it would take to unseat Rep. David G. Valadao in California.
Jim Justice reveals how a last-minute conversation with Martin Heinrich broke a partisan logjam to pass the Hershel Woody Williams monument bill.
The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to enforce postal service ballot mail restrictions as North Carolina ballots already enter the mail.
Jefferson County, Colo., is one of the few public school systems to sue the Trump administration over demands that it revoke transgender protections or face funding cuts.
Americans need an economy that works for working people.
It’s not clear to me that Vance’s statement is especially supportable.
Union bosses exploit Labor Day to push coercive policies like the PRO Act, which would repeal right-to-work laws and force compulsory union dues.
Sydney psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed on why men who quit work aren't depressed but demoralised, and how mental health labels became a rival source of status and dignity.
An unorthodox survey suggests it’s time for the Australian government to concede defeat in the tobacco wars. Will it have the guts to do so?
William Lawrence, a progressive challenging a first-term Republican, is trying to rewrite the playbook for Democrats running in swing districts.