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Democrats appear likely to nominate a democratic socialist for governor. How did they get here?
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 Federal Aviation Administration has imposed other closures at Reagan National Airport over events for the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding.
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.
Senator Bernie Sanders warned that corporations have already lost control of technology that could cause “potentially cataclysmic results” for millions of people.
One of the best ways we have of avoiding a new kind of great power conflict now is ensuring that we have the munitions we need to fight one.
Sen. Rand Paul is examining Dr. Anthony Fauci's government-issued phone and says he is taking a special interest in whether it contains evidence of deletions.
In a new book, Robert O’Connell situates the battlefield tactics of ancient Greek hoplites within the grand sweep of bronze-age military history.
Tom Tiffany and Glenn Youngkin warn that democratic socialist Francesca Hong's policies on defunding police and abolishing prisons threaten Wisconsin.
The deal would bring jobs and investment to the state, but blue-state attorneys general want to block the merger.
It's easy to second-guess decisions made during the pandemic. That doesn't justify the Republicans' politicized response
David Ellison's bid to merge PSKY with Warner Bros. Discovery is now being challenged on antitrust grounds.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is planning a major exhibition next year devoted to the designer John Galliano, who became infamous for his antisemitic rants.
Along with his comments about Muslim candidates, Mr. Trump spoke disparagingly of Somalis in the United States, saying “they’re not smart.”
Documents released by the White House shed new light on the demise of an often-overlooked 2017 F.B.I. investigation.
The senators said the texts are among more than 34,000 recovered from a copy of the former government official’s iPhone.
Is she trying to be relatable as she contemplates running for president?
President Trump is eager to declare success in Iran and Gaza, but he is struggling to impose his will in either conflict.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
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Voters right now broadly disapprove of the economy, Trump and, increasingly, Republicans in Congress.
The plan here could not be more obvious: Treat fires as a public health emergency and justify increasingly coercive regulation of individual freedom.
Studies show that many terminally ill suicidal people who don’t do the deed are later glad to still be alive.
Green Bay City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys departs amid another state investigation into apparent election law violations.
Homer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar.
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private 2021 discussion of a theoretical miscarriage association drew fierce criticism from Republican lawmakers and officials.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order recommending childhood vaccines for 11 diseases instead of the CDC's 18, separating the MMR shot.
A look back at the 20th century’s most entertaining literary spat—one of the few such encounters that Orwell emphatically lost.
Massachusetts joins nine other states in removing gestational age limits, allowing abortions up to birth, as Healey vows abortion will remain safe, legal and accessible.
While the Israeli leader touts a willingness to defy the U.S. on Gaza, the president needs to show progress in the foreign entanglements weighing on his approval rating.
It’s not so much what 314 Action Fund is against that raises suspicions about their commitment to science.
Drones, suspected to be operated by the Russian government, are flying over the skies of German airports and military bases.
President Trump hid in an airport catering container and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the NATO summit last month.
The party’s congressional campaign arm added Mr. Miller’s opponent, Brian Poindexter, to its highly competitive “Red to Blue” list.
How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
Parents have embraced Montessori aesthetics-the wooden toys, the sad beige playrooms-while ignoring its actual lesson: Children need meaningful work and responsibility, writes Liz Wolfe.
Francesca Hong leads Wisconsin's Democratic Party gubernatorial primary as progressive vs. moderate battles reshape the party's Midwest future.
The president had insisted for weeks that the landmarks’ algae-stained waters and peeling lining were the fault of vandals, not the project itself.
Dr. Anthony Fauci texted health officials about a theoretical miscarriage risk from fever after the second mRNA dose in pregnant women's first trimester.
Frank Miller’s valuable new memoir explores the creative life of one of America’s most gifted writers and artists.
The president had a long list of items that needed Senate attention before the preelection recess. John Thune ignored most of them.
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.
Primary season is coming to a close, and today is the most crowded day left on the calendar.
Yesterday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on ABC's This Week with Jonathan Karl. During their discussion, Karl asked her about Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong's unearthed past comments, including those saying that…
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’
A Monday afternoon deadline that would have allowed local party officials to select a replacement candidate has passed.
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…
On both sides of the Atlantic, white professors think that suspending judgment when it comes to blacks makes them good people.
Before leaving Saturday, lawmakers confirmed President Trump’s attorney general pick and passed a spending bill.
Biden has made a point of talking to conservative media figures in recent months.
The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee proposed a gross receipts tax on data centers that critics call a national internet tax on all Americans.
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.
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
Amid a regional scramble to shape the “day after,” Jordan appears to be the only country without a plan of its own.
As you cross the Androscoggin River into Lewiston, you pass on your left the waterfalls that once set the mills to humming. On your right, affixed to a pockmarked brick mill-now defunct, it had spun tens of thousands of bedspreads a week-a 30-foot…
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The left and the middle continue to battle in Democratic primaries for governor in Wisconsin and Senate in Minnesota. In South Carolina, all eyes are on Darline Graham.
Lars von Trier’s harrowing but resplendent story of suffering and grace turns thirty this year.
President Donald Trump secretly exited Air Force One via a catering truck at the NATO summit in Turkey, boarding a smaller jet to evade Iran threats, according to a report.
Sen. Ron Johnson says Anthony Fauci's government phone texts reveal he privately feared mRNA vaccines could cause miscarriages in pregnant women.
What drove the Founders was ‘the accumulated experience of past ages.’
David Axelrod calls Francesca Hong a "font of zany liberal, faculty lounge exotica" and says her Wisconsin primary loss would help Abdul El-Sayed.
The show will feature interviews with guests about key books that have left an impact on them. It starts Sept. 24 on Audible.
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…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dismissed woke policies as a past phase, but conservatives are now demanding accountability for years of DEI activism.
El-Sayed’s imprecision betrays general inaccuracies about how and what Medicare for All policies would do for the everyday patient.
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.
‘Why Is Everyone Scared of Hasan Piker?’ asks the headline at Rolling Stone, before quoting him and showcasing why.
I have it on good authority — which should not be a surprise to anyone who knows the author — that this is not a thinly veiled tell-all.
Immigrants who said they inadvertently registered to vote while obtaining or renewing driver’s licenses are increasingly facing deportation under the Trump administration.
The president is seeking ways around rulings on tariffs, birthright citizenship and the Fed. Experts say the moves don’t signal outright defiance, but they push the court’s limits.
President Donald Trump demands Iran compensate families of USS Cole victims and thousands killed by Iranian-backed attacks in future negotiations.
Republicans are arguing over the $20 burrito. Some are telling us to get used to high food prices. They don't understand America.
Joint Base Charleston will now be known as Joint Base Lindsey Graham. The senator served as a judge advocate general before retiring as a colonel in 2015.
Republicans can and must articulate what they’re against in the ascendant left’s radical agenda. But what are they for?
The president signed an order advising states to revise their rules. He also called for narrowing which vaccines are administered to children and splitting shots into multiple appointments.
Dennis Kirk, a Project 2025 author who had worked for then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, may now run Interior’s inspector general office.