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Local Democrats are warning the top Senate Democrat to keep away as they replace Graham Platner, and the candidates are giving his leadership in Washington low marks.
What alarmed me most wasn't the suspected misconduct. It was how reluctant my university seemed to confront it, writes Roberto Serrano.
John Thune delivered a tearful tribute to Lindsey Graham on the Senate floor as a black veil covered the late South Carolina senator's desk.
Showing how to win, how to lose, and how to be a masculine hero.
DOJ warns states to enforce federal voter laws or face penalties.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
FOX News host Will Cain argues that the evidence presented during Tyler Robinson's trial overwhelmingly disproves the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
A three-time deported illegal immigrant allegedly ran a stop sign and killed 6-year-old Calli Toler, igniting the border fight in North Carolina.
When critics start issuing dictates, they end up excluding broad swathes of art and culture as well as whole areas of human experience.
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.
Electric vehicle chargers are proliferating in Southern states as fast food restaurants, stores and other businesses try to lure customers.
Zohran Mamdani says Morris Katz remains a top advisor despite Democratic Socialists of America urging allies to blacklist the consultant over Platner.
Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Trump-endorsed Darline Graham Nordone, sister of the late Lindsey Graham, to fill his seat for the remainder of his term.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States will “dismantle” the international court that tries grave crimes “brick by brick, if necessary.”
The twisting road to the candidate's exit left a lot to be desired. But ultimately, reporters ferreted out the truth
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) announced his selection of Darline Graham Nordone to serve into January after her brother died suddenly amid a campaign for a fifth term.
Her argument about Hamilton has, if not a fatal flaw, at least a highly debilitating one: Hamilton changed his mind.
Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina named Darline Graham Nordone to replace Mr. Graham, who died on Saturday.
The father of the country has not yet arrived, and the young man standing in his place is a genuine creation.
Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan are scheduled to make a rare appearance at the Capitol to testify about the court’s more than $200 million request.
What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
U.S. Capitol Police arrested an armed man at the North Barricade after he drove a Ford Bronco to the security checkpoint with a firearm inside.
America is going to war to replace Iran’s assault on the global order with a shakedown of its own.
Senator Lindsey Graham, who died unexpectedly last night, was a pivotal citizen of the Washington conversation. He loved being in the mix, slapping bipartisan backs off camera, and then, when the lights came on, cracking wise, weighing in, and, ye…
Graham died hours after returning from a trip to Ukraine. Trump said he spoke with the senator Saturday evening and that “could’ve been his last call.”
A look back at one of the Senate's most influential and complicated figures.
The Democratic Socialists of America have taken the official position that the Senate should be abolished. This is impossible under the Constitution.
The decision also recommended disciplinary action against the lawyers involved, including the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche.
On July 4, 1916, Iva Ikuko Toguri was born in Los Angeles - 25 years before she would go to Japan and become known as the infamous Tokyo Rose during World War II.
Manhattan and Brooklyn median rents hit all-time highs as critics suggest immigration is putting pressure on the housing supply in the city.
Even Platner’s resignation was ultimately undercut by his own sheer trashiness.
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"The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic - the man who actually does the work."
Trump recommended Darline Graham Nordone as interim senator for South Carolina, while Tim Scott pushes for a placeholder ahead of the special election.
Thirty years as a high-functioning neurodivergent project manager.
As much as he was a political animal who gloried in the fray, Lindsey Graham also had a core.
Reconsidering Israel’s wars in 1956, 1982, and 2026.
The extraordinary story of how a fragile Holocaust songbook, hidden for decades in a Sydney cupboard, came back to the world.
DSA's National Political Committee rejected an all-member poll on a 2028 presidential endorsement, sparking fury from factions pushing to back AOC.
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.
Claudia Verhoeven’s new book is a valuable contribution to the crowded library of Mansonia.
Federalism and state sovereignty are important parts of the American tradition.
The sharp-witted South Carolinian repaired relations with President Trump to advance his foreign policy goals, was willing to cut deals with Democrats and tried to insert himself into every legislative fight.
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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…
Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, has offered condolences to those who loved Mr. Graham while considering the political fallout from his death. Republicans are scrambling to arrange a new primary election.
Most veterans who were wrongly denied a military award do not get a three-star general to personally intervene for them.
A lot of things have changed in American politics since our writer went on parental leave.
For a socialist who once opined that New York would be better off without billionaires, Zohran Mamdani - the mayor of a city with more billionaires than any other city on the globe - sure doesn't mind basking in the investment boom that is current…
How decades of invisible science produced two cancer breakthroughs.
We’ve lost a great American who labored until the end to promote national security and pressure our enemies by spreading freedom and shoring up our alliances.
A constitutional violation in the service of a foolish, provocative policy.
A federal judge ruled Trump's $10 billion IRS lawsuit over leaked confidential tax returns was for an improper purpose, referring attorneys for discipline.
I can’t put my finger on it, but there is simply something special here.
Comparing yourself to others locks you into a contest you can never win and makes other people’s wins feel like your defeats.
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.
The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to a Mossad safe house in Iran in the early days of the war. But the plan fell apart.
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.
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…
President Trump said the United States could collect tolls or fees, despite Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying no country could do so.
How the beautiful game convinced the world that boredom is sophistication.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Graham’s defense of Brett Kavanaugh came against powerful cultural currents that are easy to forget.
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.
Lindsey Graham ranked 294th in wealth among Congress members despite 31 years of service, with assets mostly in mutual funds and government bonds.
A new analysis of commercial shipping data shows European countries spent billions in the first half of 2026 on purchases of Arctic liquefied natural gas.
Trump and Tim Scott are pushing South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster to appoint Darline Graham Nordone as a caretaker to fill her brother's Senate seat.
Lindsey Graham, the senior US senator from South Carolina, died unexpectedly on Saturday, aged 71. This being Anno Domini 2026, the famously hawkish Republican's demise was greeted with open joy by his opponents on the antiwar Left and the hard Ri…
A definitive resolution to this conflict — one way or the other — is still in the cards.
He initially called Donald Trump a “kook” who was “unfit for office,” only to join the new president’s Mar-a-Lago circle. “I’m still in the game,” Mr. Graham once explained of his much-analyzed turnabout.