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As attorney general, Paxton threw unprecedented resources into stopping Biden's agenda. That record is his sword and shield as he runs for U.S. Senate.
The Human Rights Campaign endorsed 29 candidates in battleground districts for 2026, raising questions about alignment with the group's stances.
Gary Stevenson says Britain's wealth inequality is spiralling out of control. The data says otherwise—and Channel 4 never thought to check.
Beijing's export controls on rare earths and other niche metals are distorting markets and fuelling resource nationalism
Republicans aim to pass election integrity measures through budget reconciliation by offering states grant funding to enforce voter ID requirements.
The plan faces a rocky path amid Republican divisions and would pave the way for votes months before the midterm elections to fund a war that polls show is deeply unpopular.
Even now, according to a new survey by the left-leaning group Data for Progress, the Democratic Party has a net negative rating of minus 29 percentage points among swing voters, worse than the minus 25 for the Republican Party. Democrats seeking t…
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…
Politics of the Day
This should be a lay-up confirmation, but the president and his minions could make it more interesting than it should be.
The state's Senate primary pits progressive Abdul El-Sayed against the more traditional Rep. Haley Stevens.
County party chairs inundated with calls. An endless stream of Google sign-up forms and spreadsheets. And a disgraced former nominee looming over it all, haunting the party's hopes
His nomination to lead the U.S. intelligence community comes as the White House pushes to use declassified intelligence to show concerns about election security.
You'd think Democrats could do better - but as the Platner debacle demonstrated, judging character is not this party's strong suit.
California has a green rule that is raising the costs of goods on store shelves all across America. Most Americans have never heard of it, and that's the point.
Kaitlyn has been an asset for the editorial team this summer, especially because of the historical perspective she brings to her coverage of current events.
Sen. John Kennedy demanded answers on whether Jack Smith read his emails and shared them with Attorney General Garland during the confirmation hearing.
Markwayne Mullin blasts Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gavin Newsom for hosting webinars and sharing resources he says help illegal immigrants defy ICE.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement had ordered its officers to halt most vehicle stops across the country after they shot two people over the past week.
Beijing just launched a nuclear-capable missile into the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone and called it routine. It was not.
The sweltering city borrows from history to put on a show.
Kaitlyn E. Tracey, a Canadian national, allegedly slapped a teen wearing Trump-branded clothing at Point Pleasant Beach before being turned over to ICE.
How decades of invisible science produced two cancer breakthroughs.
New York drains nearly $2 million a day in unemployment fraud, prompting an unprecedented DOL strike team deployment with embedded special agents.
Mazie Hirono opened Todd Blanche's attorney general confirmation hearing with her routine sexual harassment questions, drawing swift backlash.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Claudia Verhoeven’s new book is a valuable contribution to the crowded library of Mansonia.
Moves are being made in the right direction, but will they be implemented so as to improve accreditation?
When critics start issuing dictates, they end up excluding broad swathes of art and culture as well as whole areas of human experience.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Aaron Pete, Chief of the Chawathil First Nation, about reserve governance, residential schools, ‘unmarked graves,’ and intra-Indigenous politics.
His candor and fairness is why he’s getting praise even from his ideological foes.
Gavin Newsom is, as usual, indulging in a public relations blitzkrieg. But some suspect he may be losing his grip on his real ambition: a move to the White House. Recent polling suggests that Governor Brylcreem is losing ground to California's oth…
During his confirmation hearing, the acting attorney general refused to discuss the termination of an investigation into a commutation issued by President Trump.
Acting attorney general Todd Blanche’s decision to grant President Trump protection from I.R.S. audits was a central issue in his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
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…
Todd Blanche told senators the Justice Department will prosecute anyone linked to Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking operation if new evidence emerges.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) announced his selection of Darline Graham Nordone to serve into January. She is expected to be sworn in Tuesday.
The media has called my fertility treatment right-wing quackery. A year after my daughter's birth, it still won't give restorative reproductive medicine a fair hearing, writes Madeleine Kearns.
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.
Darline Graham Nordone, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s younger sister, received the backing of President Donald Trump and Sen. Tim Scott to serve out the remainder of her brother’s term.
How the beautiful game convinced the world that boredom is sophistication.
Critics question whether the coins are legal and argue that President Trump is using the currency to celebrate himself.
Reconsidering Israel’s wars in 1956, 1982, and 2026.
The former president announced that the book, “Promise Me, America,” will come out on Nov. 17, and will cover the tumultuous events of his presidency as well as his re-election bid.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Is this the far left's #MeToo moment?
Minnesota and Washington impose the nation's highest vape tax at $17.90 per product, while some states add just $0.36 to the same item.
Hours before Lindsey Graham's death, the White House backed his Russia sanctions package. Now a bipartisan Senate group has unveiled the sweeping bill.
If the problem we’re focusing on is the gap between stated and achieved desires for family size, more immigration can’t possibly be the solution.
Christopher Nolan’s name alone drives people to the movie theaters.
The extraordinary story of how a fragile Holocaust songbook, hidden for decades in a Sydney cupboard, came back to the world.
I started my first Saturday in my new hometown in rural Tennessee on a mission to explore it and take in all of the small-town charm. But first - coffee. What I came to find was that the town had no Starbucks, no Target, no long list of well-known…
Elon Musk gave $5 million to back Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for Ohio governor, seemingly moving past tensions around the effort to downsize the federal work force.
We have lost our minds. Everything is not politics.
Congress cannot create more daylight.
Parnell Palme McGuinness on the six distinct "tribes" of young Australians she uncovered—and why personal agency, not income, is the strongest predictor of happiness.
Time and again, black voters have proven to be more pragmatic than their progressive white counterparts by prioritizing electability over ideology.
Trump's effort to use budget reconciliation for his scheme to take over elections now becomes even more of a stretch.
Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Carl Cannon, Tom Bevan, and Andrew Walworth break down another deadly shooting of a civilian by ICE, and what to expect from confirmation hearings for Todd Blanche for attorney general and Jay Clayton for …
The Arizona Democrat said he had raised and given away $10 million to fellow members of his party and committees as he mulls a presidential run in 2028.
Social and financial incentives in the society are hostile to human reproduction.
The announcements reflect a growing disconnect between the Democratic establishment, with its long-standing support for the U.S. ally, and the party’s left wing.
The new government of Hungary, led by Péter Magyar, used its constitution-shaping majority today to abolish the office of president.
Democrats and gun control advocates are concerned that his comments about Check-Mate Industries, a company led by his mother-in-law that manufactures magazines, reveal a conflict of interest.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the late Sen. Lindsey Graham instrumental in passing the DEFIANCE Act targeting nonconsensual AI deepfake porn.
Byron Donalds says his GOP rivals remain in single digits as he holds roughly 50% in polls, defending his refusal to debate before Florida's primary.