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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.
The American Dream is the promise of a process: if you work hard, and make smart and virtuous decisions, you will live a better life than your parents, and your children will live a better life than you do.
Alex Vindman thinks he can do what no Democrat has been able to do over the past decade: break through Republicans’ hold on Florida.
Shapiro's ideology makes a lot more sense if you understand it as a ChatGPT-esque AI bot, but trained entirely on 2003-era GOP talking points and ignorant of everything that happened since.
In an interview, Afghanistan’s foreign minister called on the U.S. to reopen its embassy and invest in the country — a near-impossible sell for now, analysts and former diplomats say.
A lawsuit filed this week alleges that the product is unconstitutional, and other experts warn it could violate securities laws.
At 28, Karoline Leavitt was the youngest press secretary in history. Now she's leaving to be a mom - and getting mocked by Democrats for it.
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Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y. argues Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats block the SAVE Act while claiming to support voter ID in their districts.
McKinsey's Chris Bradley on why Australia stopped investing—and why he believes the poorest country in the world could live as well as Switzerland does today by 2100.
Your life is beautiful, even when you feel like you’ve made a disastrous mess of it. If we are still here living, we can still do something about it.
On October 19, the Canadian province of Alberta will vote on a referendum . . . on whether to hold another referendum on the province separating from Canada.
Both major-party candidates are unpopular in a race viewed as critical for Senate control.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins says Democratic challenger Troy Jackson "struggles to control his temper" after a resurfaced 1988 police report emerged.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The release of Kevin Rideout, an American missionary pilot who was seized in Niger’s capital last fall, has been a priority for the White House.
The president has been focused on the race since the death of Lindsey Graham in July. Ms. Graham, the late senator’s sister, is competing against Representative Ralph Norman in a runoff on Aug. 25.
If Democrats want any shot at taking back the Senate, they need to win the seat in Minnesota being vacated by retiring Democrat Tina Smith. Normally, this wouldn't be a tough task: The party hasn't had to worry about a Minnesota Senate seat in nea…
Recent polling issues could continue in Democratic primaries in part because progressives are more likely to enjoy taking surveys.
Primary turnout isn't the only way to measure the enthusiasm that will translate into votes in the fall. But it's a particularly good one.
The appeal escalates the legal fight over the controversial project to the nation’s highest court.
The president is actively fighting for his endorsed candidate in the South Carolina Senate runoff, Sen. Darline Graham, the sister of the late Lindsey Graham.
The planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom is estimated to cost $400 million and is part of the president’s broader effort to remake Washington in his own style.
Citing comments by President Trump, David Hearn raised the prospect of “prosecutorial harassment.”
Melissa L. Farris was served two felony charges for allegedly vandalizing the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
A new White House report says that China sends billions of dollars worth of goods to the U.S. via third countries in order to skirt Trump's high tariffs.
In a new book, Robert O’Connell situates the battlefield tactics of ancient Greek hoplites within the grand sweep of bronze-age military history.
A backlash might start with a ban on public pot-smoking.
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The only acceptable number is 2 percent or less, as Kevin Warsh has promised.
Kevin Rideout, a pilot, was abducted from his home in the country’s capital, Niamey, last fall. His mission organization said he was in “good health” after his release.
The Cofnas and Arday controversies show that on matters of race, administrators at Cambridge have failed to conduct deliberate checks, failed in probity, and failed in their tolerance for unsettled science.
Chuck DeVore told Fox News Digital that liberal states treat elections as census exercises, supercharging weaknesses in noncitizen voting safeguards.
As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California.
The intended parents had asked to end the pregnancy at 20 weeks when the fetus was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, setting off a painful legal battle.
It was the Democratic Party's "Summer of Socialism," as an email from the Republican National Committee cheerfully called it that morning, and Ashik Siddique, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, was standing on a chair outside a ba…
If we want to avoid a rerun of the early 2020s, then-to paraphrase Seuss-we will have to get rid of Woke 1 and Woke 2.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The Trump administration remains the undisputed world champion of picking stupid fights with little or no political upside.
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chair Bill Cassidy demands answers from IAM over alleged Cuban regime influence scheme.
While the issues of medicalizing kids ("transing the kids") or biological men playing in women's sports have taken a backseat to "affordability," the economy, and the war in Iran, they are still major issues that will keep people like me voting Re…
A look back at the 20th century’s most entertaining literary spat—one of the few such encounters that Orwell emphatically lost.
One reason Ukraine has proved so successful this year in slowing Russia’s advance in the east of the country has been the creation of a ‘kill zone.’
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will probably never have a better opportunity to be elected president than 2028.
How AI prose exploits the charity that makes reading possible.
If the obdurate public won’t boost labor’s clout of their own accord, the American left has concluded, they must be forced into it.
Can anyone win by distancing themselves from President Donald Trump?
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
Minnesota Democratic Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan pointed the finger at Tim Walz when asked about her responsibility for the massive fraud scandal.
We just need to face the overwhelmingly obvious fact that most of us need to be doing something different, something more.
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.
Mark Lynch endorsed Rep. Ralph Norman, the candidate running against Sen. Darline Graham in the South Carolina special GOP U.S. Senate primary runoff.
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.
Abdul El-Sayed's half sister Eman Abdelhadi was arrested on a felony charge for allegedly spitting on a trooper during anti-ICE protests in Broadview.
Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan Senate bid faces scrutiny over thousands of euthanized animals at Detroit Animal Control during his tenure as the city's health director.
The aircraft, which cost up to $50 million each, have seen heavy use around the Strait of Hormuz — but they are relatively easy targets for Iran and its proxies.
Three detransitioners say doctors pushed puberty blockers, testosterone and double mastectomy on them as teens without adequate mental health screening.
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…
The New York congresswoman freezes her eggs, and Republicans show their true feelings
Prospectors are eyeing mineral deposits within the former boundaries of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah.
It is not a good sign that the yields on 30-year treasuries continue to rise.
American individualism and the western, from Fred Zinnemann and John Ford to Larry McMurtry and Taylor Sheridan.
The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America is nothing new says historian Michael Barone.
The Labor Day event, where he is slated to discuss the role of unions, will follow the scandal-hit former candidate’s withdrawal from the U.S. Senate race in July.
His remarks come after months of firings and disparagement of the Justice Department workforce by President Trump.
Amid a regional scramble to shape the “day after,” Jordan appears to be the only country without a plan of its own.
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…
PatientRightsAdvocate.org says it wants to republish the proprietary billing codes that guide billions of dollars in health care payments.
Progressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolition
A last-ditch filing this week came on behalf of a dog that a judge found to be “vicious” and shows how the court’s emergency docket has been growing.
A federal guilty plea would probably doom Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s separate state murder prosecution.
Judge Nichelle Holmes once said justice can mean "dismissal." After she released Marcos Iriarte-Valdez, he allegedly killed Todd Stewart, 68.
That's the question Ocasio-Cortez faces: Will she ever again have the opportunity that appears to lie before her?
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Higher premiums and rising medical bills have intensified Americans’ dissatisfaction with their medical coverage.
Abdul El-Sayed's now-private 2021 blog post argued Trump should be treated like Osama bin Laden, calling the Capitol riot comparable to 9/11.
Is this the reckoning that human-rights NGOs have long avoided?
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences.
The court dismissed a case over the Alien Enemies Act in a messy conclusion to a long-running legal battle that had seemed destined to end up before the Supreme Court.