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The former congressman, once considered a leading candidate in the California governor’s race, resigned after allegations surfaced in the spring.
Ukraine's new Vyrivniuvach glide bomb lets MiG-29 and Su-27 pilots strike Russian forces from safer distances while reducing reliance on U.S. weapons.
Undercover FBI agents who posed as Islamic State facilitators say the Albany resident spoke of attack plans and sought help with explosives.
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We are swimming in a sea of lies now — more than ever before.
The New York City mayor’s push to get his city-run grocery stores up and running is fueled by delusions.
Aisha Wahab, a Democratic state senator in California, will fill out the term of Eric Swalwell, who resigned from the House amid accusations of sexual misconduct.
Laugh them off if you please — there is plenty to laugh at. But do not doubt their sincerity. There are few dangers greater in politics than sincere fools.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses incumbent Sen. Ed Markey as he faces off against Rep. Seth Moulton in the Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Senate primary.
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.
Breakthrough News and People's Forum accuse the House Ways and Means Committee of McCarthyism over subpoenas tied to Neville Roy Singham's network.
JPMorganChase warns Basel III Endgame capital rules could hurt Main Street by raising borrowing costs and reducing small business lending access.
The latest victory came in a state House race near Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump survived an attempt on his life in 2024 and won big.
Yes, in all instances of IVF, the human child is a product born from a commercial transaction.
Outside Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts this week, Americans are witnessing something resembling a mass psychosis event.
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The system isn't merely confusing. It is a game in which voters are the losers.
The economist prescribed deficits in bad times and surpluses in good times. We embraced the former and abandoned the latter.
Lawmakers have indicated they'll be looking into Trump's actions since returning to office.
The DSA Liberation Caucus rejects Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a 2028 presidential standard-bearer, calling her an "opportunist dilettante."
Why would medicine ever waste time letting doctors look to see what is actually wrong and work to remedy — instead of mask — the problem?
The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.
Alexander Vindman, a key witness in Trump's first impeachment, lost Florida's Democratic Senate primary to a socialist by double digits.
After World War II, Dems lost touch with their New Deal roots. Now they're coming back home.
A foreign policy specialist, she was politically savvy and well versed in global issues, and traveled widely with her husband, Henry A. Kissinger, on his diplomatic missions.
Recent ratings of the state of American democracy in 2020 rose by eight points compared with surveys of Democrats that year.
Elected officials across the country are fighting the federal government's mass deportation campaign with new laws and funding. But some states are welcoming the shock troops.
Fund manager Geoff Wilson tells Claire Lehmann that Labor’s new capital gains tax will drive Australian capital out of growth companies and into franked dividends—and push a generation of founders offshore.
The Trump administration wants average Americans to be able to buy guns online and have them shipped to their doors. Small gun stores warn it could upend the industry and risk public safety.
Median Strategies, a fake polling firm, claimed it was a “social experiment.” The fraudulent poll received some attention but was shunned by mainstream poll aggregators and exposed by a reporter.
Lawmakers and 2026 candidates on both sides of the aisle are questioning whether Flock cameras have proliferated too quickly.
The Trump White House says synthetic opioid deaths fell from 48,913 to 38,084 in one year, crediting its border crackdown and ICE fentanyl arrests.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
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.
Samuel Tunick, who faces a felony charge for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search, called the government’s peering into people’s private lives “creepy.”
Trump’s appearance on Cohen’s radio show — their first public conversation since a bitter falling out — seemed to suggest their relationship had been mended.
The Senate candidate had leveraged his national fame to raise more than $16 million before losing Florida’s Democratic primary.
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…
Vice President JD Vance called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a "communist" and Adam Schiff "irrelevant" in a rapid-fire TikTok video rating politicians.
The people who run the SAT and ACT are flexing their political muscles in an effort to protect their duopoly against an interloper, the Classic Learning Test.
President Trump’s former personal lawyer tried to revisit the past in a radio interview. But this was not exactly a stroll down memory lane.
The nonpartisan publication moved its ratings in four contests to the left.
Human rights experts have said that the U.S. attempts to squeeze Cuba’s economy, including an oil blockade, have caused a severe humanitarian crisis.
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There is a rather large difference between the banned books promoted by celebrities and genuinely transgressive and provocative writing.
Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences.
The structures will go up in West Potomac Park, the site of President Trump’s planned National Garden of American Heroes.
Hakeem Jeffries rejects the Democratic Socialists of America agenda, but polls show most Democrats now view socialism more favorably than capitalism.
President Trump said North Korea has ’57 very powerful nuclear weapons’ — the first time a U.S. official had given such a specific number.
Might Canada’s fate foreshadow that of other advanced but dependent democracies, clinging to old ideals of cooperation and diplomacy as they’re rolled under the treads of China’s or America’s naked self-interest?
Socialists are winning primaries, inspiring young voters and rattling Democrats. Now comes the hard part.
Nithya Raman drew groans from the crowd at the Los Angeles mayoral debate over her decision to hire the firm behind Graham Platner's campaign.
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…
Changing the museum’s designated site to the Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall would bypass congressional approval.
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.
David Maywald on the female wage premium, the rites of passage boys no longer have, and why the science on sex differences keeps losing to ideology.
Israeli governments have never decided what to do with the West Bank—so the settlers have begun deciding for them.
Jake Lang has descended four times on Dearborn, Mich., which is majority Arab American. His rhetoric and protests have stirred fear among residents.
James Carville blasted democratic socialists for using the party's name, urging them to rebrand as moderates push the Promise to America pledge.
Adark art of the scriveners' circle is "word variety": livening up prose by avoiding repeated use of the same word or terminology.
A judge allowed Republicans to use their new congressional map this fall, but the state Supreme Court may weigh in.
Democrats rallied behind Eric Swalwell as Republicans raised alarms over Fang Fang — newly declassified FBI files are now casting fresh light on what agents knew.
Yet another heinous murder committed by an illegal alien
Democrats seeking Senate seats in some swing states are taking aim at party leadership — and even supporting Republican policies.
Twenty-four centuries ago, Xenophon and his 10,000-man Greek army found themselves trapped at the heart of the Persian Empire. Their amazing escape, described in a new book by Robert L. O’Connell, is a tale for the ages.
Infertility is a brutal, heart-wrenching experience. IVF isn’t necessarily the solution. Medically, morally, practically.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The transportation secretary’s six-part YouTube series is fueling ethical concerns over family adventures funded in large part by corporate sponsors regulated by his department.
Our future depends on building schools and colleges that will teach students actual subjects and instill in them the values of a free society.
American political life is shifting beneath our feet. For nearly a decade, the cultural landscape was dominated by an academic, HR-driven crusade centered on language control, institutional capture, and symbolic compliance. That era - termed Woke …
The Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin this summer. Now we have to raise democracy from the dead.
‘Casual agnostic’ Charles Murray discusses the evidence that forced him to reconsider God, the soul, and Christianity.
Should the desire to commit suicide justify admission into hospice to make their dying by starvation and dehydration easier to complete?
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.
The USS George Washington is relieving a vessel that has gone months without a port stop.
The disgraced academic was a pathological liar and lifelong con artist whose misdeeds were covered up for years by self-serving academic administrators. Exposing this kind of rot in elite institutions is our job.
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
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.
First, is it true that "No One Cares About Crazy People" - the title of both Gail Freedman's important new documentary and the bestselling book by Ron Powers that inspired it?