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D.C.’s top prosecutor spent a year navigating the president’s demands. Now she finds her job at risk amid a rare break with him over cases of alleged vandalism.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Hawaii professor Ashley Rubin, co-author of the recently published ‘Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences’
Mike Rowe calls out the Democratic leaders who are flirting with the ‘really bad idea’ of socialism.
In a phone call this week, the Democratic leader told the new Michigan Senate nominee who had opposed him to just win, working to foster unity ahead of a difficult race.
The Senate could hold the final vote on President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department as soon as Friday.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Time and again, Todd Blanche has made it clear that he believes President Trump possesses a nearly limitless right to directly control the actions of the Justice Department.
Christopher Nolan’s creation is a big movie in every technical sense. But inside, it is diminished and faded: heroes who aren’t allowed to be heroes and gods who aren’t allowed to be gods.
Former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown celebrated Amazon datacenter construction in Ohio in 2015 but now campaigns against them as an electric grid drain.
DEI is based on a kind of identitarianism that strips away incentives toward merit and excellence.
The Paul Krugman faux apology tour continues. A few weeks ago, we highlighted Krugman's acknowledgment on Wall Street Week that, "I am really reluctant to be where I am right now, but I do think that conditional tariffs on Chinese cars are probabl…
Shannon Taylor's record as Henrico County prosecutor clashes with her tough-on-crime campaign image as she seeks Virginia's 1st congressional district.
Amid much attention to Jason Arday's plagiarism and advanced Walter Mittyfication, the gobbledygook of his writing style has been largely overlooked, not least by the professorial electors at Cambridge and the PhD examiners at Liverpool John Moore…
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Civics programs are on the rise.
By dragging out talks, Tehran aims to damage the US president politically - but some fear a bruised and weakened Trump could lash back
The president moved this week to counter legal defeats on ending birthright citizenship and firing a Fed governor, while seeking the justices’ help with his ballroom.
I have it on good authority — which should not be a surprise to anyone who knows the author — that this is not a thinly veiled tell-all.
He must deny our permanent enemy the permanent object of its ambition. That's the task we must achieve sooner rather than later.
Our chief legal affairs correspondent, Adam Liptak, discusses whether Anthony Fauci’s presidential pardon makes him ineligible to take advantage of Fifth Amendment protections.
Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats blocked Jon Husted's voter ID bill despite Schumer's past claims that Democrats support voter identification.
The evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
Senator Darline Graham, who took her brother’s place after his death and is now seeking to succeed him, has mostly declined to answer questions from reporters at the Capitol.
Senate Republicans left D.C. without passing the SAVE America Act as Trump intervened on the budget reconciliation vote over concerns it would fail.
Homer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar.
The lack of visible raids aggressively targeting Haitians who lost temporary status has frustrated some of President Trump’s most fervent supporters.
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…
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He explains his interpretive method and defends it against a hostile biographer-and his high-school English teacher.
Abdul El-Sayed's progressive policies on defunding police, abolishing ICE, and Medicare for all leave Senate Democrats dodging questions.
A familiar act of mainstream media sophistry: work backward from a partisan verdict and then call the result analysis.The truth is wages are up for Americans across the distribution, but importantly earnings growth for Main Street workers at the 2…
Haley Stevens and Angie Craig were celebrated by Democrats in 2018. This year, they’ve faced tough primaries.
Republican attacks have focused on terrorism and illegal immigration, while Democrats have sought to capitalize on the unpopularity of President Trump’s cuts to Medicaid.
The White House appears to think that it can ignore a Supreme Court ruling by lying about its previous defeat and trying to achieve the same goal another way.
Why a Victorian obscenity trial tanked the birth rate, what the wellness industry gets wrong, and the case for choosing your baby's genes — with the internet's most data-obsessed anon.
Bill Scher of the Washington Monthly has advice.
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.
In a BBC interview, Hunter Biden faced questions about his actions’ toll on his father’s health and the propriety of his father’s act of clemency.
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 party is racing to get behind Dr. Abdul El-Sayed after a poisonous Senate primary in Michigan, but some Democrats still have reservations.
The Democratic Party's problem is not that it is seen as too centrist on economics.
This is not the same minority protection the Senate had for most of its history.
The Iran war has depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles, resulting in a significant erosion of firepower. A more drawn-out Iran conflict benefits Moscow and Beijing, some analysts say.
The plan here could not be more obvious: Treat fires as a public health emergency and justify increasingly coercive regulation of individual freedom.
An OnlyFans model and sex worker advocate is reportedly serving as deputy campaign manager for Francesca Hong's Wisconsin governor campaign.
Brian Poindexter, an ironworker, is in the spotlight in Ohio’s 7th Congressional District, where Mr. Miller faces multiple calls to step aside.
The administration approved a new flu shot but is raising fresh questions about the relationship between autism and other vaccines.
The Justice Department faces numerous pressures and challenges as it decides whether to prosecute Anthony Fauci following a Senate committee's contempt referral.
How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
Our sense of what counts as a bad or good jobs report hasn’t kept up with population trends.
Anemic job growth under Trump began around the spring of 2025, coinciding with the start of the president’s trade war with nearly every nation on earth.
Hunter Biden told the BBC that his father's prostate cancer has metastasized into his bones, calling it "very painful" and "very debilitating."
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has counted on split-ticket voters to help her win office in a blue state. Some of those supporters are more reluctant to vote for her again.
Hawaii's 1st Congressional District primary pits Rep. Ed Case against Jarrett Keohokalole, who opposes Donald Trump tariffs and ICE enforcement.
An appeals court ruled earlier Friday that construction must stop until Congress authorizes the project. The ballroom is among the president’s top priorities for this term.
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
Todd Blanche, Trump's pick to lead the DOJ, survived a razor-thin Senate vote early Saturday morning after Sen. Bill Cassidy emerged as a last-minute ally on Friday.
The move came more than a month before the spending deadline, reflecting an eagerness in both parties to avoid a messy fight before the midterm elections.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
In a new book, Robert O’Connell situates the battlefield tactics of ancient Greek hoplites within the grand sweep of bronze-age military history.
High Democratic turnout for House primaries in Shelby County, which includes Memphis, is the latest sign that redistricting may be energizing Black Southern voters.
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Mike Bouchard Jr. slams Abdul El-Sayed's campaign with Hasan Piker and vows Michigan voters will reject socialism in the 10th Congressional District.
What Senate leadership intended in the 1970s and what actually resulted don’t match up.
The early-morning 50-49 vote grants President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer a full stint as the head of the Justice Department, which has been rocked by vacancies and controversies.
Divisiveness is the mechanism through which President Donald Trump pursues his radical agenda, including for higher education.
The Defense Department stopped processing national security reviews of wind projects in May, despite a law demanding they be completed in 75 days.
Political leaders, here and around the world, need to grapple with tech’s acute challenge to the human future.
The Republican House member from Ohio was accused of holding a gun to his ex-wife’s head and fracturing the collarbone of their young daughter. He has denied the accusations.
Senate Democrats relented on shutdown threats, with John Thune accusing Chuck Schumer of making a political calculation ahead of midterm elections.
Could Mike Rogers have asked for a better outcome in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary? Doubtful. A photo finish campaign with one of the most extreme Democratic candidates squeaking out the narrowest of wins over an opponent supported by mos…
Artists increasingly insist that their work and their politics are indivisible. They should not be surprised when the institutions that fund them agree.
John Fetterman joined 800 pro-Israel students in Washington as socialist primary wins signal a leftward shift reshaping Democrats' stance on Israel.
Lars von Trier’s harrowing but resplendent story of suffering and grace turns thirty this year.
Before deciding whether to change the filibuster, we should decide what we actually want Congress to do.
The demise of SF Pretrial, which for 50 years has provided diversion services, came after the mayor cut its budget and as Democrats’ attitudes toward crime shift.
Frank Miller’s valuable new memoir explores the creative life of one of America’s most gifted writers and artists.
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…