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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…
President Donald Trump's push to oust Ilhan Omar faces a key legal test, but experts say Powell v. McCormack may actually support her expulsion.
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Judge James Boasberg oversees the Ilhan Omar search warrant fight, deportation flights, and California voter rolls, raising assignment questions.
Dan Turrentine says poor Republican candidate quality in Texas, Mississippi, Kansas and Ohio could hand Democrats full Senate control on Tuesday.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
President Trump attended his jungle-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago dressed as a distinctly recognizable figure.
In a new book about the Carolingian Empire, historian James T. Palmer argues that its founder was more than just a brutal warlord. He was also ‘a savant with a large library and a taste for the obscure.’
Voters have shrugged off accusations of corruption for years, believing all politicians are corrupt, but thanks to President Trump’s unpopularity and growing wealth, the issue is breaking through.
Two recent films offer very different portraits of Chris Hansen, the controversial journalist behind America's hit TV show ‘To Catch a Predator.’
As they fear a historic defeat in the midterm elections, Republicans all over the country are making a desperate wager.
Over the past decade, former mommy blogger Rowan (née Amanda) Jetté Knox has come out as bisexual, pansexual, polyam, a ‘giant lesbo,’ a ‘non-binary queer person,’ a polyamorous ‘trans guy,’ and, as of last month, ‘two-spirited’ (and Indigenous).
None of the firms that struck deals to avoid crippling executive orders are publicly involved in the major legal efforts to check the Trump administration’s attempts to meddle in the midterm elections, a review by The New York Times shows.
The availability of foreign low-skill labor short-circuits a natural market process.
The ghost stories, dating back to the 19th century, are fitting for a building where the past rarely stays dead.
Who would have predicted a fictional bald Frenchman with an English accent would be an intergenerational model of living well?
Voters see Dan Osborn, the independent seeking to unseat Senator Pete Ricketts, as more like a Democrat than an independent, a Times/Siena poll found.
Gemma Tognini and Claire Lehmann discuss One Nation’s rise, Albanese’s leadership, government waste and the antisemitism that Bondi exposed in Australia.
Leftist mainstream media outlets piled on this week to express outrage at my observation, during a speech in Grand Rapids for Mike Rogers, about the troubling dearth of scientific output from the world's 22 Arab nations over the past five decades.
As the Chinese Communist Party hurtles headlong into the AI dilemma, its successes and failures will leave behind some kind of rudimentary map for the rest of us.
AI can do things humans researchers can't, even in groups.
‘What makes everything meaningful, if you’re always going to live on?’
The Democratic candidate for Senate has led in polls. But because it’s Texas, he remains the underdog.
It does no harm to reflect on the evils of Maoism.
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…
The long-serving senator has delivered millions of dollars to every corner of her state. But in Maine, people say, it’s best to avoid getting on her bad side.
The Trump administration warned Iran of consequences as Marco Rubio raised energy security and Strait of Hormuz concerns at the G20 meeting.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Cindy Siegel was walking through a Houston-area grocery store as she pulled up an app on her phone. With a few easy clicks on Abbott Impact, she could see everyone in her contacts and whether they were registered to vote and had cast a ballot yet.
Michigan's Democratic coalition is fragmenting in real time days before a critical Senate election.
During his speech in the Greek capital, the US secretary of state dispensed with the hypocrisy that has cloaked America’s globe-spanning ambition in recent decades.
Trump secured the border, cut taxes and shrank the federal workforce. Now high gas prices threaten to overshadow it all, and Republicans could pay at the polls.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Since October 2023, four-fifths of the encyclopedia’s article on Zionism has been replaced, and the historians it cites—Benny Morris among them—are misrepresented.
At a Halloween event in Florida, President Trump told reporters that Alina Habba Mildon’s lucrative work for someone seeking a pardon was “not acceptable.”
Dan Osborn trails by six points, and voters don’t seem to buy that he’s truly independent from Democrats.
Last month, President Trump gathered AI's top executives at the White House to discuss policing themselves. In one week, the administration tried two traditional approaches: self-regulation and bureaucratic regulation. And Americans don't trust ei…
Russia has reaffirmed its alliance with Iran and is reportedly providing intelligence to the Houthis as they attack U.S. allies in the Gulf.
Texas has been the Democratic Party's great, unrealized hope for three decades: a vast and fast-changing state that often seems within reach, only to slip away.
Ken Paxton announced Texas Children's Hospital opened the nation's first detransition clinic as part of a settlement over gender care practices.
David Lewis’s classic study of Pacific wayfinding shows how Indigenous knowledge can be taken seriously—neither romanticised nor dismissed.
The two jurisdictions contend that President Trump’s proposed 250-foot arch is “flagrantly unlawful,” citing concerns over traffic, the environment and historic preservation.
From the Starship Enterprise to the Shakespearean stage, Patrick Stewart was always very much in command.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
A new study suggesting everyday plastic could be bad for our health has the internet split between alarm and dismissal. Dr. Charlotte Grinberg explains what the evidence shows and the simple swaps worth making.
Trump claims Ilhan Omar must resign from Congress over alleged immigration fraud, but the Constitution grants that power solely to the House.
Bioethics is entirely subjective when it comes to coercing doctors.
Ilhan Omar has hired Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz, attorneys who represented Biden, House Democrats during the Trump impeachment and E. Jean Carroll.
The great pleasure of fandom is how a single moment can carry everything you know about its characters.
The son of Nicolas Sarkozy on the riots, the rise of Marine Le Pen, and why he thinks France may have to burn before it can rebuild.
An Oregon-based group poured nearly $475,000 into D.C.'s foie gras ban as part of a strategy to "storm the nation" with local ballot campaigns.
Our higher ed system must change its culture, seeking to shape the character of students rather than merely slapping degrees on them.
Increases in energy prices as a result of the Iran war are not a justification for tighter monetary policy.
The system that has driven life-altering discoveries and helped make the United States a superpower is now under intense strain.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay discusses the underlying societal factors that caused his country's journalists, politicians, and academics to uncritically accept false claims that the bodies of 215 Indigenous children had been found on the grounds of a…
Hans von Spakovsky says Jack Smith's Trump indictment set the precedent for the DOJ's criminal probe into Alaska's "Decoy Dan" Senate race scheme.
Facing backlash over inflation and anger with the president, Republicans have turned to an onslaught of baseless claims about Democratic candidates.
The anonymous chronicler of the Islamic State’s occupation talks to Pamela Paresky about growing up under Saddam, the 1941 Farhud, and why he believes antisemitism unites every jihadist movement.
Election 2026 midterms coverage includes interactive maps, Decision Desk race calls and live results for House, Senate and gubernatorial races.
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.
The question is who ordered the restrictions on the Starshield military application; administration harping on Starlink terms of use in Ukraine is misdirection.
Elissa Slotkin's warning to young Americans about joining Trump's administration could hand Republicans legal ammunition under Trump v. Mazars.
Ligonier Ministries built its Grow app with an AI assistant that deflects vulnerable users to real humans and the suicide hotline when needed.
For the past week, Americans have been treated to another familiar media spectacle. Donald Trump was supposedly threatening democracy. His Justice Department was interfering with an election. Republicans were preparing to reject the will of the vo…
Britain’s departing billionaires offer a lesson.
Mary Moriarty's felony charges against Cam Higby and James O'Keefe sparked calls for Trump Justice Department to open a civil rights case.
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.
Obama promised Obamacare would lower premiums by $2,500. Instead, family coverage more than doubled since 2010. Now he's complaining about the crisis he created. The numbers don't lie.