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Two centuries before the claimed discovery of non-existent ‘unmarked graves’ in British Columbia, a wave of bestselling ‘convent exposés’ purported to detail mass rape and child murder among priests and nuns.
Essays in the New Yorker, the NYRB, and the Atlantic make one worry about the kind of nation they might urge the United States to become.
Navi Pillay’s appalling treatment of Hamas’s sexual violence provides ample reason to deny her any prestigious honours. But she is also dangerous to the very international legal system that she pretends to uphold.
The justices will consider how the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 applies in the digital age of streaming videos, email newsletters and targeted advertisements.
Despite her professed atheism, Kathryn Paige Harden insists on making quasi-religious claims about free will and moral responsibility.
The campaign is set to be more expensive than the 2024 presidential election cycle, and has already exceeded the ad total booked by the N.F.L. last season.
The race in Maine, which could decide Senate control, is testing whether there is still room for Ms. Collins’s brand of moderation during a sharply polarizing presidency.
Cleaning up after clean energy isn’t straightforward.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
Representative Mike Collins, who lags Senator Jon Ossoff in public polls, hit his opponent harder in a second and final debate on Tuesday.
Trump and Paxton have turned a false claim about his diet into a masculinity test. Why does eating meat matter?
Television journalist turned congressional hopeful Ryan Elijah says transparency, accountability will be his focus following victory over Cory Mills in contentious Florida GOP primary.
Omar represents a D+32 district.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani admitted he didn't watch Tuesday's gubernatorial debate between Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and Republican Bruce Blakeman.
On Thursday, the Second Circuit hears our arguments as to why my suit against Pfizer should proceed. I won't say pray for us - the world has bigger problems - but, you know, pray for us.
As of this morning, more than 3.7 million votes have been cast in the 2026 midterms.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris will also rally for Democratic candidates in Georgia and Nevada.
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.
Despite the efforts of an out-of-control federal monitor, union president Shawn Fain has won re-election by a huge margin.
Marco Rubio just announced that the United States is sanctioning the International Criminal Court. It's about time, writes Douglas Murray.
Ancient DNA has given historians a new archive, and in two decades it has settled long-running arguments about who migrated, who conquered, and who replaced whom.
Parents should never have to wonder whether criticizing a school board policy could attract the attention of federal law enforcement. Vigorous disagreement with government officials - even angry disagreement - is not extremism. It is part of citiz…
A state that hasn't delivered its electoral votes to a Republican presidential candidate since 1972 is bucking the prevailing national political winds and contemplating a change after years
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman’s account of the 7 October massacre and its aftermath is a triumph of dogged reporting and shrewd analysis.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The Senate campaigns are being waged as though the only issue at stake were whether senators will fight Trump or enable him during the next two years.
Our policy on Ukraine is the same as Putin’s.
After thousands of troops deployed by the president have patrolled Washington for more than a year, a three-judge panel interrogated whether the deployment could continue indefinitely.
Candidates running for the US Senate in Georgia clashed over alleged neo-Nazi activity and ties to Jeffrey Epstein during their last debate before the election.
With control of Congress hanging in the balance, nominees have attacked their rivals’ records, stock portfolios and families, with varying degrees of accuracy.
For some reason, the president and his allies aren’t clamoring to take credit.
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…
The Pentagon is expanding its fight against drug traffickers, even as the plans recall a long and bloody history of U.S. intervention in the region.
Timely and accurate documentation should be a baseline expectation, whatever one’s view on abortion is.
On this full episode of LARRY with Larry O’Connor, we cover the BREAKING NEWS that Rep. Ilhan Omar is now facing TWO separate federal investigations, as reports reveal grand jury subpoenas involving members of her family, new questions emerge abou…
Grand Slam champions take home identical prizes, but the men must win 50 percent more sets to get there.
Tuesday, October 13th on RealClearPolitics - Joined by RCP White House Correspondent Carolina Lumetta, along with Jewish Insider Editor-in-Chief, Josh Kraushaar:
New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul was pressed on her endorsement of Mayor Zohran Mamdani after Bruce Blakeman called him an antisemite.
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…
Troy Jackson accused Susan Collins of paying for the bullets that killed Johan Sebastián Guerrero, igniting a fierce clash over ICE funding.
Elon Musk's SpaceX imposed a new speed limit on Starshield satellite service that Ukraine says is disrupting drone intercepts and military operations.
A wonderful new book by Stephen Wade, America’s greatest living folklorist, chronicles the history of the country’s folk music.
As the former UBC professor exacts apologies and legal settlements from his accusers, Brad Cran offers a personal account of the collateral damage that the decade-long saga inflicted on the Canadian literary community.
Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, disagreed over the war in Iran and President Trump in the third of four debates in a key race.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Media outlets get the easy joy and rush of tearing down the guy who might be the last popular comedian to exist.
Do Europeans fully grasp what the fall of Ukraine would mean for the rest of the continent?
To accuse Trump of turning on Ukraine only because high gasoline prices have angered voters would be too charitable. His hostility goes far beyond that.
While the midterms are officially about electing 36 governors and 470 members of Congress, a burgeoning group of prominent and wannabe prominent Democrats are using this political season to pursue a higher aspiration: The 2028 presidential nominat…
AI veteran Jerry Kaplan tells Claire Lehmann why he thinks the doomers are wrong, what the rogue-agent incidents did and didn’t show, and where real risks lie.
The fat years are over and lean ones loom ahead. What to do?
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It won't be conservative Christians who lock people up for speaking controversial opinions, but woke ideologues kowtowing to Muslim immigrants whose countries of origin have no respect for free speech.
Michele Tafoya trails Peggy Flanagan by just four points as Minnesota's massive welfare fraud scandal reshapes the rare GOP Senate pickup bid.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
President Trump’s deal with Russia will probably not lower diesel prices that have soared because of his war with Iran and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries.
The track record of presidents who hit the campaign trail in midterms years is poor, especially when their job approval is underwater.
Ed Markey's internship post encouraging BIPOC and LGBTQ+ applicants sparked accusations of discrimination and claims he violated civil rights law.
Democrats have been dreaming big in Texas for decades, awash in optimism that this could finally be the year to win a US Senate seat.
“I’m running for re-election to the Senate,” the Democrat said during a debate on Tuesday. Barack Obama said the same thing 20 years ago.
Iraq and high gas prices cost Republicans Congress in 2006. Now the war is in Iran, President Trump's approval rating mirrors then-President Bush's and Democrats' polling lead looks eerily familiar.
JD Vance rallied for Ken Paxton in Tyler, Texas, while taking aim at Democrats over Somali gang violence in Minnesota and spiking gas prices.
Omar supporters should work on a defense to the immigration fraud allegations, if there are any, not squawk about the timing of the DOJ’s investigation.
The Journal’s editors are right. For now, ‘the Houthis have the upper hand.’
Jay Jones launched a Voter Protection unit targeting Trump's election security efforts, but critics point to dead felons receiving voting rights letters.
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.
For more than a decade, conservative activists held that a single atomic bomb could, without killing Americans directly, lay waste to the country — a claim that built fervor for war with Iran.
Chuck Grassley alleges President Joe Biden's Justice Department collected invasive data on over 639,000 Republican voters and donors via Arctic Frost.
James Talarico slams Joe Biden on border security in a new ad, but a 2019 interview shows he called to slash Texas' entire $800 million budget.