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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.
Why a Victorian obscenity trial tanked the birth rate, what the wellness industry gets wrong, and the case for choosing your baby's genes — with the internet's most data-obsessed anon.
Democratic Senate Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer suffers a second straight primary setback as Peggy Flanagan wins Minnesota's Senate nomination by 20 points.
Is this the reckoning that human-rights NGOs have long avoided?
Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a letter to the Justice and Interior departments pressing for more information on the felony prosecution of David Hearn.
Retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery warns Russia is giving China submarine quieting technology that could erode a key U.S. Navy undersea advantage.
Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman will face off in a runoff later this month for the South Carolina GOP Senate nomination, CBS News projects, as they vie to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Politics of the Day
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) removed a hotly debated chapter on climate science from its website.
Like a dog barking at the moon, The New York Times has spotted a fresh outbreak of anti-Muslim prejudice.
The president was accompanied by some of his most loyal aides but no top administration officials as he made the clandestine move to a different plane to leave Turkey last month.
FBI Director Kash Patel says the Washington, D.C., crime crackdown yielded over 6,000 arrests and 1,300 illegal firearm seizures in one year.
The three-day athletic event in Ohio featured dodgeball, tug-of-war and a lot of praise for the president. Just don't tell anyone who won.
Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth beat Trump-backed MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for the GOP governor nomination to replace outgoing Gov. Tim Walz.
Governor Maura Healey signed an anyplace-anytime abortion policy into law, prompting celebration in the statehouse.
The state party establishment fears Democrats are throwing away a once-in-a-generation chance at a trifecta.
A look back at the 20th century’s most entertaining literary spat—one of the few such encounters that Orwell emphatically lost.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Trump claims his secret plane was in more danger than the Air Force One decoy the public thought Trump was flying on.
Rebecca Cooke won Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District Democratic primary, setting up a rematch with Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden this fall.
‘How do you think the economy is doing’ has turned into a proxy question of ‘how do you think the president’s doing?’
Thank goodness we’ve ended all that politicization of the Department of Justice!
In an interview, President Trump said the current level of U.S. strategic munitions is ‘fine’ and, at the same time, ‘low.’
Proposed guidance from the Treasury Department clarifies how employer and employee contributions to the new accounts would work.
The victory by Minnesota’s lieutenant governor was the latest for the left-wing movement in the Midwest. She could become the first Native woman in the Senate.
We should discuss whether freezing eggs — and the IVF procedures that normally follow — should happen at all.
The American university is in crisis. Neither the public, the students, nor even the faculty believe in a system that was once the envy of the world.
The Ohio Republican denies his ex-wife’s abuse allegations, but Democratic nominee Brian Poindexter has been added to the party’s “Red to Blue” program.
Frank Miller’s valuable new memoir explores the creative life of one of America’s most gifted writers and artists.
Ukraine received a sliver of what the Iran war has devoured.
They are one of the religious communities fighting for their right not to have to lead their patients to suicide under our new evil law.
In a new book, Robert O’Connell situates the battlefield tactics of ancient Greek hoplites within the grand sweep of bronze-age military history.
If you believe it’s sexist for a woman to have the option to give her life to God, I suspect there’s not much that can be said to convince you otherwise.
The development of AI may represent a giant leap for our species. But its development has been accompanied by fears of the unknown.
The administration of President Donald Trump has escalated its crackdown on transgender medical care ahead of the midterm elections.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
Last week, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order that purports to strip citizenship from some Americans.
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…
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…
The Democratic Party's progressive wing faces critical tests in Upper Midwest primaries as Peggy Flanagan battles Angie Craig for Minnesota's Senate nod.
Fourteen-term Rep. John Larson faced Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin and two others in a hard-fought Democratic primary centered on generational change.
Gina LaPlaca and her husband Jason Carty face ballot fraud charges after allegedly using fake signatures on her Democratic primary petition in New Jersey.
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.
When the Left cannot win within the rules, it changes the rules-and when that fails, it changes the people who make them.
The extraordinary subterfuge was aimed at protecting an American president who has been in Iran’s cross hairs for years.
Mr. Little, a former mayor and state senator, beat two other candidates. He focused on promises of banning corporate money from politics and supporting Medicare for all.
In his first public comments on the operation, the president downplayed the risks to officials and journalists who remained on Air Force One for the flight from Turkey.
The president signed an executive order in 2025 placing sanctions on the ICC, whose jurisdiction the U.S. does not recognize.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Amid a regional scramble to shape the “day after,” Jordan appears to be the only country without a plan of its own.
Democratic and Republican candidates nationwide are running on their opposition to data center projects.
A moderate won the closely fought Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin, the latest contest between the party’s progressive and moderate wings.
Unlike typical grand juries, those designated special focus on a single case or related cases and can issue a report following their investigation.
Ms. Cooke, a three-time congressional candidate, held a huge fund-raising edge in a western Wisconsin race that Democrats consider pivotal to their hopes of flipping the House.
Those beating the drums for utopian socialism in America could benefit from an education in real-world consequences.
Lars von Trier’s harrowing but resplendent story of suffering and grace turns thirty this year.
Old-fashioned Chicago corruption looks better than drowning in incompetent activist government.
Sneering at Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the CBS journalist Margaret Brennan was engaged in mindless cultural enforcement activity.
How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
Peggy Flanagan defeated Angie Craig in Minnesota's Democratic primary, backed by Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar in a growing progressive proxy war.
Our attitudes toward suicide and doctor-assisted suicide are incoherent.
The New York Times reverts to old form, thanks to a blue-party schism.
Vermont Democrats pick their nominee to challenge Republican Gov. Phil Scott, who is seeking a sixth term as the dark-blue state's longest-serving governor.
Michael Alfonso, 26, had the support of the transportation secretary and an endorsement from President Trump.
In an upset, Luke Bronin, the former mayor of Hartford, won the Democratic nomination, capitalizing on calls for generational change.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the White House kept Congress “in the dark” about last month’s ruse to avoid an Iranian threat.
Democrats are lashing out at fellow Democrats for one of the nation's largest cases of pandemic-era welfare fraud, theft that handed Republicans a potent example of government waste from Democratic mismanagement.
A steady job, a simple house, and a quiet life used to sound like hell to many young people. Now the old American dream is back, writes Russ Greene.
As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.
David Crowley defeated DSA member Francesca Hong in Wisconsin's Democratic gubernatorial primary, setting up a general election against Rep. Tom Tiffany.
The military operation was the first following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s dismantling of an office focused on mitigating unintended casualties.
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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Hawaii professor Ashley Rubin, co-author of the recently published ‘Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences’
The Milwaukee County executive, who won a tight primary race against Francesca Hong early Wednesday, could become the first Black governor of Wisconsin.
It was at least the fourth time that an aircraft has violated the no-fly zone near President Trump this week.
Nothing is more natural when buying a house than looking into how safe the neighborhood is, and, if you have or plan to have children, whether the schools are any good.
Ilhan Omar faced four challengers in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District Democratic primary as affordable housing and public safety dominated.