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As the Chinese Communist Party hurtles headlong into the AI dilemma, its successes and failures will leave behind some kind of rudimentary map for the rest of us.
Representative Chris Pappas and former Senator John E. Sununu both stressed their willingness to buck their parties on occasion. Neither had kind words for President Trump.
Mass culture was an anomaly of corporate organization meeting the technological paradigm of spectrum scarcity.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay discusses the underlying societal factors that caused his country's journalists, politicians, and academics to uncritically accept false claims that the bodies of 215 Indigenous children had been found on the grounds of a…
Dueling rallies in Lubbock put the Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico on full display as Trump joined the Republican side.
More than 70 percent of Big Five publishing staff are women, most of them from elite universities.
A Russian official said potential relief for a state investment fund was part of talks. Russia has sought to wring economic benefits from the negotiations on ending the war with Ukraine.
Plus, ballot-stacking in Alaska and a polling surprise in South Carolina.
Lakesha Womack, who is running for the U.S. House of Representatives, said she was served with felony rental car charges at her own North Carolina campaign event.
Abdul El-Sayed accused Joe Biden of exploiting the Ayman al-Zawahiri drone strike to bolster his party's approval before the midterm elections.
A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of another James Fishback campaign.
The fact that the case against the former White House aide was pursued at all reflects crisis conditions in federal law enforcement.
Mao’s portraits glow ‘with an inner light, an unmistakable hint of the divine reinforced by mists, mountaintops, and suggestions of the miraculous.’
Even if these are stressful days to be in cybersecurity, they are hopeful ones.
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she privately cautioned Israel against overreach after Oct. 7 and questioned Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership.
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…
As Trump officials stump for Republican candidates facing difficult races, ethics experts say they are being lax about complying with the Hatch Act, a federal anti-corruption law.
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…
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The Justice Department slammed Jay Jones' Election Day guidance as "bluster" after Virginia advised poll workers to call police on DOJ monitors.
The anonymous chronicler of the Islamic State’s occupation talks to Pamela Paresky about growing up under Saddam, the 1941 Farhud, and why he believes antisemitism unites every jihadist movement.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, submitted sworn statements to a federal court regarding the construction project.
The political reporter outs many of his sources as liberal Republicans looking to undermine conservatives.
Being accused of trying to rig a system while running to unrig a system could be unhelpful.
President Trump had lashed out at Mary Peltola after The New York Times reported that her campaign and national Democrats helped recruit spoiler candidates to the race. He offered no explanation of what crime may have been committed.
The president's love of kitsch once charmed his base. Now it's finally failing him
Sen. Bernie Moreno blasted Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther over $225,000 in taxpayer dollars directed toward a Ghana nursing partnership program.
For both Russia and Ukraine, the war has taken a staggering toll and poses an ever-greater danger of spreading.
Gemma Tognini and Claire Lehmann discuss One Nation’s rise, Albanese’s leadership, government waste and the antisemitism that Bondi exposed in Australia.
Arizona Senate president Warren Petersen slammed Kris Mayes after she said the state has "too many golf courses" during a water conservation debate.
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.
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.
There’s no discernible reason for the pause in tightening.
It seems that the effort to find a fake Dan Sullivan with which to confuse voters was not only intentional but far-reaching.
The White House has been rocked by turnover and anxiety over the midterms. The president, who is tightening his inner circle, has lashed out at critics, held meandering rallies and feasted on a diet of news clips and “A.I. slop,” as one aide put it.
Last week, we examined the House of Representatives and Democrats' potential to flip a large number of seats in 2026. In case you haven't read it (or don't remember it, after all that was more than a Zacharia ago), the basic takeaway was threefold…
The event served as a snub to Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico, who hosted his own Lubbock rally the same night.
Kudos to Kellen Browning and the Times for not letting Elisa Rios kill the story after they’d confirmed it.
The progressive Senate candidate has won over students with his politics-and, in at least one case, his protein intake.
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The government said in a court filing that it would meet the Nov. 15 deadline set by President Trump to close East Potomac Park to build a championship golf course there.
In his letter, the vice president suggested an immediate resumption of comprehensive talks, including about Iran’s nuclear program.
Mary Peltola's campaign allegedly ran a covert "ballot composition project" to recruit namesake candidates and split the vote against Dan Sullivan.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Over the past decade, former mommy blogger Rowan (née Amanda) Jetté Knox has come out as bisexual, pansexual, polyam, a ‘giant lesbo,’ a ‘non-binary queer person,’ a polyamorous ‘trans guy,’ and, as of last month, ‘two-spirited’ (and Indigenous).
How historic housing unaffordability-and resurgent tenant organizing-are reshaping the midterm elections.
Nathan Cofnas: what was done and what was owed.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who denied Cilia Flores' bond request and oversaw the Nicolas Maduro torture case, died at age 92 of natural causes.
Keisha Lance Bottoms, in her bid for Georgia governor, has faced pointed criticism of her leadership in Atlanta and disappointment in her decision to leave after one term.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin blasts New York City after NYPD ignored ICE detainers and released an illegal immigrant accused of assaulting an officer.
The Department of Justice's Alaska Senate race lawsuit faces hurdles as legal scholars debate whether anonymous ballot analysis can prove confusion.
Add Beijing’s touchiness to the list of reasons why western companies should, if possible, not do business in China.
Representative Haley Stevens has been less than enthusiastic about Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, injecting late intraparty tensions into a race that could decide Senate control.
From the riots of 2005 to the scenes of urban guerrilla warfare on 17 and 18 October, violence in French cities has grown increasingly intense. And the authorities are struggling to respond.
David Lewis’s classic study of Pacific wayfinding shows how Indigenous knowledge can be taken seriously—neither romanticised nor dismissed.
Compute adds a kind of relentlessness to our intellect; it does not discover new horizons.
During his speech in the Greek capital, the US secretary of state dispensed with the hypocrisy that has cloaked America’s globe-spanning ambition in recent decades.
The judge ruled that no immediate action was necessary, dealing another setback to the administration as it moves to target voting by noncitizens.
This agenda should terrify conservatives.
It is not misinformation, disinformation, or a crime to echo Democrats' longheld view that election machines are vulnerable to manipulation.
Brazilian senator Flavio Bolsonaro has landed in the US after fleeing Brazil following defeat in the country's presidential election on Sunday.
Kiev will need to make painful concessions to guarantee its survival.
In the age of the smartphone, people ‘read’ more than ever before. But the reading of books, newspapers, and other long-form content has fallen dramatically—with detrimental effects for society.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Judge James Boasberg, a frequent Trump legal foe, now oversees the fight to unseal the FBI search warrant used in the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's home.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.