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Trump had enormous discretion over Fauci’s role. There was nothing inevitable about Fauci’s becoming the face of the federal government’s Covid-19 response.
I covered Abdul El-Sayed when he ran for governor and lost. Here's how he and the landscape have changed.
Even after winning approval of a measure calling on President Trump to end the war, they continue to call votes to force Republicans to answer for it.
At the next Federal Reserve meeting, it may break.
The incivility that Fauci experienced from Congress pales before the Covid era’s many affronts to liberty.
It was just another day in school in the sweltering heat of suburban South Florida. Upon our return from afternoon recess, our fifth-grade teacher treated us to a documentary written and presented by former Vice President Al Gore.
A vote to confirm Dr. Erica Schwartz, who has publicly supported childhood vaccines, will take place in the full Senate.
The bipartisan bill is a long way from becoming law, but it represents the strongest opposition yet from Congress to the administration’s agenda.
A State Department letter to Congress confirms Turkey has not met legal conditions for the F-35, despite Trump's promise to lift sanctions on Ankara.
Europe’s LNG storage tanks are only about 50 percent full, a very low level at a time when it needs to be preparing for winter.
The group of former health and national security officials warned that Americans will be more vulnerable to infectious disease threats.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Debra Soh, author of ‘Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy,’ about neuroscience, hypergamy, elephant seals, politicised sex research, the perils of polyamory, and the sex-repellent…
Conservatives are accustomed to arguing that the instruments of harm are not responsible for harm. This principle extends to AI tools as well.
In the 30th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the expanding Jesuit presence of the late 1630s—and the increasingly bitter opposition it provoked among France’s local Indigenous allies.
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Senate Republicans must cancel recess and pass SAVE America Act proof of citizenship requirements supported by 82% of all voters.
In theory, the War Powers Act gives Congress the power to end a war. But our chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, describes how President Trump is the latest president to find ways to engage in war without congressional approval.
Rep. Bryan Steil demands classified DHS briefings on noncitizen voting and cyber vulnerabilities in voting systems ahead of November midterms.
The statement by the nominee, Sarah B. Rogers, signaled a stark reversal of the president’s earlier efforts to shutter Voice of America and other federally funded news groups.
Men are quietly leaving the workforce—not for lack of jobs, but for lack of purpose.
He claims his Senate hearing was a witch hunt designed to entrap him. But his record convicts him on its own.
District Judge Zahid Quraishi blocked the Justice Department from accessing New Jersey's unredacted voter registration list, citing privacy concerns.
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.
Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth 111 times at a Senate hearing as conservatives resurfaced viral videos of COVID lockdown arrests and mask mandates.
Mass deportation is not just border policy. It is affordability policy - and more fundamentally, it is a restoration of the basic bargain between the American government and American families.
Audio of Joe Biden's interviews with a ghostwriter in 2016 and 2017 show him referencing classified materials and occasionally struggling to recall details.
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…
Kamala Harris' $8 million Malibu mansion sits in a census tract that is 94% White and 0.2% Black, despite her career fighting racial bias in housing.
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.
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All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
It was Lindsey Graham's last political act: bringing leaders of two of his great causes, Israel and Ukraine, back before President Donald Trump.
In just seven years, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) has spent nearly $60 million on lawyers.
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…
There is real value in Noah Rothman's century-spanning chronicle of left-wing terror, but it falls short in analysis.
GOP Sens. John Cornyn (Texas) and Thom Tillis (North Carolina) are leaving the Senate after this year.
We have a war that our people and our allies don’t want to support.
At a time when both US parties paint the other as a threat to the country's future, both are ignoring one of the gravest threats of all: student achievement levels that are abysmally low.
Iran's rulers are not playing to win the war today-they are playing to survive long enough to fight another one tomorrow.
Trump’s attorneys asserted a 2024 high court decision granting presidents sweeping immunity for actions taken in office shields him from liability in the case.
President Trump's Freedom Haulers Initiative streamlines CDL licensing for military veterans while removing over 24,000 non-English-speaking commercial drivers.
We should be concerned.
Senators Cornyn and Tillis continue to hold out for a formal rescission of the ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund,’ intensifying the DOJ’s dilemma.
Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.
DHS General Counsel James Percival names federal judges he says are engaging in judicial activism to block Trump's immigration and deportation agenda.
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, shot entirely on IMAX cameras, is the newest chapter in an old story: technological innovation creating new forms of art.
Vance occupies an indispensable position for the future of his faction in ways that nobody else does for other factions of the party.
The mayor had said the city might enforce a warrant against the Israeli leader, drawing Democratic criticism. On Tuesday, he urged the U.S. government to do so.
Ketanji Brown Jackson told Michelle Obama's "IMO" podcast she is "very, very mindful" of impartiality, sparking swift mockery over the perceived irony.
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James Uthmeier says his office is launching a Florida investigation into Anthony Fauci after the former NIAID director invoked the Fifth Amendment.
There is no war between radicals and moderates; it's simply a battle over which radicals will rule the party Obama created.
The initial populist calls to ‘Fire Fauci’ came as early as April 2020
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A collapsed ceasefire has pushed America and Iran back towards full-scale war over the Strait of Hormuz. Now Trump must decide whether to finish the job or give Tehran one more chance.
Declassified evidence points to Beijing seeking personal data for espionage, not election interference.
Jon Ossoff touted Georgia military construction wins at Fort Benning and Fort Stewart despite voting against the bill that funded those improvements.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
President Trump has not only ended, by his own count, eight wars in his second term. After the current pause in the latest series of American military strikes against Iran, Mr. Trump can also claim to have ended one war at least three times. There…
Trump officials have promised to “make visual arts great,” with a museum exhibition that includes artwork by several people with personal connections to the planners.
Senate Republicans blocked another war powers resolution as munitions dwindle and Sen. Bill Cassidy draws a hard line on ground troops in Iran.
The majority leader offered a rather pointed reminder that the president doesn't get to choose the party's Senate leader - Senate Republicans do.
Activist Rachel Moiselle on why a country with 3,000 Jews obsesses over Israel, how antizionism became a faith, and the cost of speaking out.
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.
Self-defense and veterinary care would have been the only remaining exceptions to animal-cruelty restrictions.
Dormant for 30 years, a little-known tribunal is hearing its first case.
Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.”
Sen. Darline Graham, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, dropped a campaign video in her run for U.S. Senate with President Donald Trump's endorsement.
By framing terrorism and armed struggle as legitimate resistance, the pro-Palestine movement has unwittingly strengthened Israel’s case that withdrawal and concessions carry unacceptable risks.
Following on false claims that 215 child corpses were discovered in western Canada, a First Nations chief claims that Indigenous people can communicate with departed spirits.
Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.
The Grift Industrial Complex targeted Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey—and got buried.