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White voters without a college degree, a cornerstone of the Republican base in the Trump era, moved left this year. Some cited high prices, the war with Iran and more in their decisions.
The contest to replace António Guterres as U.N. secretary general has been jolted by last-minute entrants and deep divisions among members of the Security Council.
After an inconclusive election, Israel’s Arab parties hold the balance of power—but a renewed war with Iran may yet hand Netanyahu another chance.
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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.
Denver ICE Field Office Director Nathan Rasper must appear in court after 14 detainees were arrested again after court-ordered releases in Colorado.
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Judge Ana C. Reyes wrote that she intended to pick a former U.S. attorney in Washington to investigate whether officials misled the court about changes to the East Potomac Golf Links.
The vice president has not made up his mind on running for president in 2028. His potential rivals, however, are wasting little time to prepare.
Midterm victories have given states the opportunity to elevate the national popular vote, but obstacles like legal challenges would loom.
Initiative 86, which bars the force-feeding of birds and the sale of foie gras, passed handily but restaurateurs and prominent chefs are preparing for a fight.
With Democrats poised to regain control of Congress, President Donald Trump’s elevation of Miller to replace Susie Wiles signals an emphasis on ideological combat over compromise.
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 Justice Department’s intervention in the Texas lawsuit could signal that the administration is ready to challenge newly elected Democrats in state offices.
Democrat trifectas in key swing states could push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact past 270 electoral votes needed to activate it and thus change the way Americans select the presidency.
I wonder if The Lancet’s editors also laud the keffiyeh Thunberg dons and her T-shirt bearing the slogan ‘Yalla Intifada’?
Sam Wasson’s new Capra biography is a welcome corrective, but it goes too easy on the director and misreads his decline.
It remains unclear how the Justice Department might proceed. The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration’s recent attacks against the news media.
District attorneys and law enforcement unions blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom's mass commutation of 548 death row sentences as a betrayal of victims' families.
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…
California district attorneys accused Gavin Newsom of overriding juries and ignoring victims' families with his plan to commute all 548 death sentences in the state.
But after the midterm disaster, why should anyone expect Trumpism to suddenly become popular?
On social media, the president offered the now-vacant job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the organization’s C.E.O., and told him to bring along fighters as aides.
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…
Much more of the damage to Trump’s approval on the economy was done by the launching of the sweeping tariff war than the energy-price shocks of the Iran war.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The DSA's "Socialist Sprouts" curriculum and "Red Sprouts" training aim to bring resistance-driven childcare and radical storytelling to young children.
Democrats have pledged to probe the Justice Department’s actions during Trump’s second term. He has ordered the agency to investigate Democrats.
Cranbury Township residents demand answers after a $26 million fraudulent wire transfer was kept secret until days after Election Day in New Jersey.
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.’
On Joe Rogan's podcast, the senator from Wisconsin cited claims by a former White House adviser and accused Trump aides of catering to special interests.
The blue wave, while a rebuke of Trump's policies, was also a referendum on the party's status quo
The President's unique brand of lurid authoritarianism has finally lost appeal, and he has lost the plot.
Years before Omar's latest federal probe, Minnesota Republicans flagged her controversial tax filings to the IRS, according to newly obtained correspondence.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, expected to be the next House speaker, said he would confer with other Democratic lawmakers about the issue on Tuesday.
Wade and Teresa King say Washington's Department of Ecology fined them $267,540 over stockwater ponds the state claims are regulated wetlands.
Mary Peltola (D) leads Sen. Dan S. Sullivan (R) by about 600 votes with a quarter of ballots still to be counted, according to the Associated Press.
For years, both parties have turned aid to Israel into a proxy fight for domestic political grievances. If these elections are an excuse to end that arrangement, we'll all be better for it.
MAGA voters at a Trump rally name JD Vance and Marco Rubio as early 2028 presidential election favorites after Democrats swept the midterms.
We treat every hour as preparation for some future payoff, but some of the best ways to spend a life accomplish nothing at all.
Voters in South Florida shared their frustrations with The American Conservative.
Cheerleaders of a war that exacerbated the cost of living and produced another Middle East quagmire are desperate to avoid any and all responsibility.
Casting off all restraint seems to have gotten the public’s attention.
The man in line to be the first Black speaker is a reserved moderate seen by activists on the left as too timid to take on President Trump. He says he’s “strongly positioned” to get things done.
Nicholas Mitchell: How these two senators-elect contended with Black voters' anger
You could hardly design an issue better to destroy Republican fortunes.
Democrats won after appealing to male voters. Now they have to figure out how to keep them.
The true test of exactly how much Trump has fallen will be whether Republicans stop fearing to cross or criticize him.
Two recent films offer very different portraits of Chris Hansen, the controversial journalist behind America's hit TV show ‘To Catch a Predator.’
On CNN, Republican Larry Hogan criticized the White House for doubling down on unpopular approaches while ignoring political independents.
Members of the Democratic and Republican parties say the country and political system are better off when candidates and their ideas are tested.
A group of young Black women helped Democrat Scott Colom do the unthinkable, potentially flipping a deep-red Senate seat.
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.
House Republicans expressed shock and anger after Trump promoted Stephen Miller to chief of staff following the GOP's historic midterm losses.
A former U.S. attorney for D.C. will look into whether Trump administration lawyers committed ethical violations in the battle over East Potomac Golf Links.
Chuck Schumer will likely block every Trump judicial nominee once Democrats take the Senate, making the next two months critical for the GOP.
As Americans absorb a stunning new political reality, they face a gap between the time they effectively decided to be done with the president and the time he is actually done.
The president’s new chief of staff has already demonstrated his intention to forge ahead with an agenda that many voters rejected.
Nothing short of being at the precipice, on the sharp edge between the world as it was and the world as it will be, ever seems able to describe the present in terms that adequately capture it.
We’re playing a long game, and these unfortunate results could prove to be God’s blessing in disguise.
Democrats swept the 1930 midterms-but it was what FDR did next that mattered most. Here's what today's progressives can learn from his example.
The former deputy mayor of Jerusalem on her family’s Sephardi history, 7 October, and why she wants Jewish students to study in Israel.
President Donald Trump accused Democrats of threatening administration officials and Republican donors and ordered the DOJ to investigate alleged "criminal" conduct.
After last week’s midterm losses, the Republican Party entered its most uncertain moment in years. Some Republicans called for moderation and cleaning house, but that will be difficult with President Trump still in the White House.
The UFC chief executive and longtime Trump political supporter declined to discuss the offer but said he plans to meet with the president on Monday.
Schoolchildren will learn about Donald Trump more than a hundred years from now, but his successor will likely be a footnote and historical nobody.
The socialists, entrenched in dark-blue districts and states, will be around for a long time. They’re bound and beholden to Piker and his sizable audience.
The incoming House speaker looks to kill permitting reform that would ease energy prices.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Voters rejected both of SEIU boss Dave Regan’s proposals: a billionaire wealth tax and a measure to punish community health clinics resistant to unionizing.
Melania Trump unveiled a $7.2 million scholarship endowment at LSU for foster care youth before receiving a custom jersey and football tribute.
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As US Special Envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello was sent to help return the country to civilian rule. Sudanese democrats say his choices empowered the very networks that buried it.
If you can count the costs but can’t count your winnings, you are likely to conclude that you lost the game.