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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.
Decades before his rise to the New York State appellate court, he was a probation officer who tried to help Mr. Oswald, then a teenager living in the Bronx.
Trump's narrative of of total control over Iran is a fiction.
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 U.S. attorney in Chicago subpoenaed a fund-raising firm that had been co-owned by the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who conducted the trial that led to Donald Trump’s felony conviction.
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Asian allies are beginning to wonder whether the United States would or could defend them in a war.
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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will probably never have a better opportunity to be elected president than 2028.
The president can help rally his core supporters but remains deeply unpopular in many swing areas.
A lawsuit filed this week alleges that the product is unconstitutional, and other experts warn it could violate securities laws.
Human history is shaped by epic rivalries, and Dr. Anthony Fauci's adversarial relationship with the truth has proven one such antagonism.
How AI prose exploits the charity that makes reading possible.
The party’s membership finalized the new order for the first six states to winnow the candidate field, pushing back Iowa and New Hampshire.
The White House is seizing on new statistics showing that violent crime plummeted last year to boast of a “Trump effect.” But experts note crime began falling well before Trump returned to office.
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
The FBI's report, which compiles crime data from about 87% of the country's police departments, shows an 18.1% decrease in the murder rate compared with the prior year.
President Donald Trump endorsed Saritha Komatireddy to challenge Letitia James, calling the New York attorney general the "WORST" in the country.
The outgoing press secretary's tenure isn't the only example of the Trump team laughing in the face of political danger.
Is this the reckoning that human-rights NGOs have long avoided?
Bernie Sanders-backed California candidate Randy Villegas promoted DEI as a "social justice-driven duty" in his academic writings on community colleges.
‘Americans aren’t unhappy with Amazon. Amazon is extremely popular.’
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Mangione’s lawyers contend that his federal guilty plea to a stalking charge bars Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg from pursuing a state murder charge.
Who's eligible to play in the WNBA? According to their collective bargaining agreement: only players who are women. In simpler times - that is, before the proliferation of laws and guidelines that enshrined gender identity as a facet of, or replac…
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.
He’s right to say that criticizing young people for being lazy won’t win them over. But the results of Trumponomics so far hold a warning for Republicans.
Rep. Andrew Clyde calls the ruling removing the $200 tax on silencers and short-barreled rifles the greatest Second Amendment restoration in a century.
President Donald Trump dismissed the concerns of military families about worsening conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
The premium on elite institutions, where admission has become dramatically more intense is wildly overrated. I should know.
A federal guilty plea would probably doom Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s separate state murder prosecution.
The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
It is not a good sign that the yields on 30-year treasuries continue to rise.
At 73, Sherrod Brown is mounting a comeback bid in Ohio. He is one of the Democrats his party is counting on to retake control of the Senate.
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…
Donna Brazile declined to comment on a report that Maine U.S. Senate nominee Troy Jackson fathered children with his second cousin, calling it gossip.
Jason Arday was a child of God, as are we all. He was a liar, certainly, but he committed no monstrous sin. Let's mourn him humbly and without rancor.
Does anyone actually miss the '50s?
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Both major-party candidates are unpopular in a race viewed as critical for Senate control.
In a new book, Robert O’Connell situates the battlefield tactics of ancient Greek hoplites within the grand sweep of bronze-age military history.
Abdul El-Sayed struggles to unify Democrats after the divisive Michigan Democratic Senate primary, giving Mike Rogers a 51%-47% polling edge.
Arday was found dead in his home on Friday.
Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences.
The only acceptable number is 2 percent or less, as Kevin Warsh has promised.
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.’
Amid a regional scramble to shape the “day after,” Jordan appears to be the only country without a plan of its own.
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.
Kyrsten Sinema testified about having sex with her married security guard at locations across the U.S. and is now facing an alienation of affection suit in North Carolina.
Trump scored a major legal victory as a federal judge in Boston lifted a stay blocking the termination of Somalia's TPS designation.
Anthony Fauci's attorney rejected Sen. Ron Johnson's request to testify, arguing a second Senate appearance would amount to political harassment.
Oliver Larkin defended taxing billionaires "out of existence" but repeatedly refused to give Sean Hannity a specific tax rate during their heated exchange.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claims Stanford Law School is "off limits" for conservatives, but a spokesperson says the school would be honored to host him.
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 editors of the NEJM can restore the publication’s reputation as a sober source of important medical information rather than one with ‘soul.’
American individualism and the western, from Fred Zinnemann and John Ford to Larry McMurtry and Taylor Sheridan.
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The planned adornments, which were included in renderings submitted to the Supreme Court, break with tradition and the original vision for the White House grounds.
Republican and Democratic challengers are both using the issue to attack members of Congress as unethical, seizing on a common practice that enrages voters.
Asked whether the deployment of the Abraham Lincoln had gone on too long, the president said its deployment had lasted “not nearly long enough.”
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…
Democratic Senate nominees in Nebraska, Idaho and South Dakota dropped out, clearing the way for independents. But Alani Bankhead in Montana declined to join them.
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Representative Rashida Tlaib was supposed to headline an event called “Chomp the Oligarchy” for three candidates for Congress who face Jewish Democrats in Tuesday’s primary.
Seedy foreign money is shaping our culture and our politics, but it's not coming from where the propagandists say it is.
The request escalates the legal fight over the controversial project to the nation’s highest court.
Ed Markey is hoping that his progressive politics will save him in Massachusetts.
South Carolina would hold its primary on Jan. 22, 2028 under the Democratic National Committee’s plan. Nevada would follow on Feb. 1. The plan aims to give a bigger voice to Black and Latino voters.