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The justices blocked President Trump’s executive order that banned birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and some temporary foreign visitors.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The success of Becky Pepper-Jackson, a West Virginia high school sophomore, prompted criticism from the state’s governor.
Nearly 250 years on, Laclos’s novel of seduction and treachery continues to scandalise.
James Talarico, a Democratic state lawmaker, is tied with Ken Paxton, the Republican state attorney general, according to a New York Times/Siena poll.
The Becket Fund defends religious liberty for people of disparate faiths.
A year ago, President Trump was bulldozing his opposition. Now he’s facing setback after setback.
Evangelical leaders are divided over the Trump-Iran memorandum of understanding, with some praising military action and others warning Israel is betrayed.
Irked by Finland voting to allow nuclear weapons on its soil, a Russian lawmaker declared his country could still ‘blow up half of Finland.’
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.
Changes in the law to allow propensity evidence in sexual abuse cases, coupled with Trump’s decision not to testify, assured that the justices would demur.
On Monday, Donald Trump sealed one of the most lasting parts of his legacy.
Trump ignored Clausewitz, and disaster ensued.
In the beginning, there were seemingly infinite natural resources and the violent consolidation of one-third of a continent under a single flag. In the middle, there was air conditioning.
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. revealed the medical condition that kept him away from the House for nearly four months in an emotional speech on the floor.
A 2023 trial found President Donald Trump liable for allegedly sexually assaulting journalist E. Jean Carroll. The decision Monday leaves in place a ruling affirming the judgment.
High primary turnout among Black voters in the South has given some in the party hope for upset wins in the region.
Republicans lost a bid to throw out Mississippi's three-day grace period for absentee ballots, but the president is still itching for a fight.
A response to Donald Devine.
The German company is doubling down on electric vehicles even as other automakers pull back after acknowledging billions of dollars in losses.
A new poll shows Graham Platner trailing Susan Collins by 21 points with non-college-educated voters despite his oyster farmer campaign pitch.
Spain’s leftist government said it was going to offer illegal migrants the chance to regularize their position, saying that the amnesty was an act of justice.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor reported receiving concert tickets worth $4,333 during a Puerto Rico trip, according to Supreme Court financial disclosures.
It is very rare for a book that debuts at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list to fall off the list completely the following week.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that political parties can now spend unlimited amounts in coordination with their federal candidates under the First Amendment.
A major shift among Hispanic voters and a favorable candidate matchup have helped put Democrats on the doorstep of a Senate upset.
After Gov. Josh Shapiro claimed there was no interest in participating in the Great American State Fair, Pennsylvanians proved him wrong.
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America has accomplished amazing things in the first 250 years of its nationhood. It went from being a peripheral colony to being the richest and most powerful country in the world. We are the nation of Midwestern corn and wheat fields, the automo…
The decision, which allows parties to spend more in coordination with candidates, is likely to further expand the power of big money in American politics.
Bill Maher is the perfect liberal, at least on paper -- yet despite his talk shows being nominated for Emmy awards more than 40 times, it's only in Donald Trump's Washington that Maher finally gets the recognition he craves.
Mia Hughes and Stella O’Malley of the ‘Beyond Gender’ podcast interview Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the progressive ideological manias spawned during the Justin Trudeau years.
The justices allowed the president to fire a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, striking down a nearly century-old precedent intended to insulate independent agencies from political influence by the executive.
The continent with the lowest number of hot days leads the world in heat mortality. Europe’s self-inflicted aversion to air conditioning betrays a deeper hostility to energy and to progress itself.
If the court had struck down birthright citizenship and upheld President Donald Trump’s executive order, the ruling would have had sweeping political, economic and social ramifications.
Sen. Eric Schmitt leads nine Senate Republicans in forming an anti-fraud task force to combat government waste and abuse across federal programs.
Scott Presler's SCORCHED EARTH Message to John Thune For BANNING Him from the GOP Convention and BETRAYING the MAGA Base:
"Under President Donald J. Trump's leadership, America is safer than it has been in over a century," a White House press release declared in January, claiming the "monumental turnaround" stemmed from Trump "reversing the chaos and carnage unleashe…
America in the summer of 1976 was not in a good place.
Children born in the United States are entitled to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment even if their parents are illegal aliens or transients.
This is a nice win for San Francisco Pro-Lifers
Speaker Johnson's plan to merge the SAVE America Act with the defense bill faced resistance from GOP holdouts demanding stronger Senate assurances.
Replies to Jonathan Kay and Maarten Boudry.
The Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship, preserving the constitutional guarantee of automatic U.S. citizenship for most children born in the United States in a major setback for his immigration agenda.
The decision is a setback for Trump, who alleged that Cook committed mortgage fraud. She is the first Black woman to serve on the Fed board.
The falling prices are a huge win for the president and his party, helping to blunt an easy Democratic attack line.
The career arc of Canadian Paediatric Society president Natasha Johnson helps explain why her country has become such an outlier in the treatment of trans-identified children.
Justice Neil Gorsuch's concurrence suggests the Supreme Court's FTC ruling could lead to sweeping challenges against independent federal agencies' power.
Critical theory did not merely politicise scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce.
Humans have not merely been shaped by evolution—we have shaped it too, through the environments we chose to inhabit and the lives we chose to lead.
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When Congress passed a sweeping immigration reform measure after World War II, it included language that mirrored the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause — and perhaps even took it a step further.
The culture war is so pervasive that even wool has an agenda.
The ruling is the latest blow to the LGBTQ+ community, which has faced repeated losses at the Supreme Court in recent years.
Sen. Ruben Gallego faces a DOJ investigation after allegedly using campaign donations to fund family trips to Disney, Miami and the Super Bowl.
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…
Sens. Mike Lee and John Cornyn clash publicly on X over whether a talking filibuster strategy can force the SAVE America Act through the Senate.
The court’s decision involving laws from West Virginia and Idaho has implications for 25 other states with similar restrictions on transgender female athletes joining women’s sports teams.
James Talarico and Ken Paxton are tied at 47% among likely voters in Texas, according to a new poll, as Democrats eye their first Senate win in decades.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson is set to send a bipartisan housing bill to President Donald Trump’s desk Monday, but it is unclear whether he will sign it into law.
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…
I’m hoping at least for some kind of pause, and sincere talks to repair this wound in the church.