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The results in Texas practically flew in on Tuesday night. As soon as polls closed, the Associated Press called a decisive victory for state Attorney General Ken Paxton, presumably ending Sen. John Cornyn's 35-year political career. The 30-point m…
The top U.S. diplomat visited the world’s largest democracy in a bid to reverse soured relations over Trump’s tariff agenda and embrace of Pakistan.
Justice Clarence Thomas orders left-wing voting rights activists in Alabama to defend a congressional districting map that helped Democrats flip a deep-red House seat in 2024.
President Donald Trump, by endorsing challengers of Republican incumbents, is creating lame-duck senators who owe him nothing.
U.S. lawmakers push for a full investigation of influencer Hasan Piker over his Cuba trip as a Jewish advocacy group alleges FARA violations.
Few politicians have garnered as much scandal in Texas as Paxton, but he has ignited the MAGA base, who see him as a fighter.
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…
Livestreamer Nick Fuentes recently spent a segment of his show warning his audience about me. At some level, I'm hesitant to even acknowledge it or him, but it can make for a useful opportunity to explain a few things about broken cultures and way…
The fact that Paxton is an obvious sinner does not make Talarico a saint.
Adam Szetela's That Book Is Dangerous! examines the emergence of a new job in publishing-secondary readers who comb through books for possible offenses.
People have tuned out Trump's promises of a deal. That is starting a cascade of consequences.
The renewed violence came after the president said Iran was wrong if it thought he would feel pressure to make concessions and resolve the standoff before U.S. midterm elections later this year.
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.
Expect attention to shift to the Lone Star State, as legacy media and activists converge on the new and unexpected center of the American political universe.
Follow President Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
With falling enrollments, most schools will be compelled to seriously reduce costs or go out of business. Lots of them have already failed that test.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
“I had never, ever seen Joe like that,” the former first lady told CBS News. “Before or since.”
A new book about Stephen King’s early novels will only appeal to hardcore fans, but its very existence is a reminder of its subject’s incalculable cultural impact.
The official DNC X account drew backlash for posting a profanity-laden response to Trump policy advisor Stephen Miller on social media Wednesday.
The two Republican critics of President Trump — Thomas Massie, who lost his House primary last week, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from Congress — met up in the tropics.
Vance is better off securing the Republican mantle while it’s available to him.
Personal attacks and a packed campaign rally set the tone for what is likely to be a rancorous contest in Texas for U.S. Senate between James Talarico and Ken Paxton.
Maine Democrats vying for Jared Golden's House seat lined up behind Graham Platner, exposing a rift with centrists who rebuked his Senate candidacy.
"It's a Jackie Robinson moment." That declaration by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries struck a curious chord because Jeffries was calling for Black athletes to boycott SEC conference teams to protest not the existence but the elimination of r…
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
As a potential cease-fire hangs in the balance, an official said the strikes were in self-defense, with targets including four one-way attack drones launched by Iran.
The president said more countries should be required to recognize Israel as part of a deal to end the war with Iran. Analysts say the chances of that happening are close to zero.
My nephew's schoolmate sang at Eurovision last week. Here is what the people who booed him don't understand.
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is claming state election laws amount to voter suppression, vowing to out-organize GOP rival Ken Paxton in 2026.
Many Gen Z men who voted for the president are dismayed by his time in office. But they are not hearing an appealing pitch from Democrats, either: “Both parties kind of get it wrong.”
Taking a break from geopolitics and crime, our feature articles this week have a lighter focus. We have a medieval travel guide from Benny Morris, a review...
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Senator John Cornyn lost to his MAGA-aligned challenger, Ken Paxton, by 28 percentage points. It was a historically poor showing.
The new Michael Jackson biopic and the campaign to whitewash the King of Pop’s reputation.
For people of a certain vintage, or students of history, the idea of Texas being an absolute wasteland for Democrats seems a bit strange.
The festival aims to expose the evils of socialism that Hollywood has long ignored.
Not having a degree is no longer a stigma, and learning outside the classroom now works.
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Outrage over a black Helen of Troy misunderstands the long Western tradition of radically reinventing classical myths.
When Alex Teves' friends and parents attended his memorial service 15 years ago, they all wore blue jeans and white t-shirts. It's the uniform that 24-year-old Alex threw on most days before he left the house. Alex's Dad, Tom Teves, said that his …
In the recent U.S.-China summit, the two leaders reportedly discussed many topics - from Boeing planes to new bilateral boards of trade and investment. A last-minute addition to the agenda: risks from artificial intelligence.
Susan Owens’s handsome new monograph reconsiders the life and career of the English landscape painter John Constable.
The only charge lodged against David Rush is that he inflated his academic credentials and obtained military leave pay worth tens of thousands of dollars.
The motion was particularly significant because it asked the judge overseeing the initial suit against the I.R.S. to examine the terms of the deal.
From the murder of a five-year-old Aboriginal girl to Melbourne's tobacco wars, Andrew Bushnell joins Zoe Sankey to examine the human cost of Australia's broken justice system.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale Law School professor Sarath Sanga, co-author of a new report explaining why the American public is losing trust in the country’s colleges and universities.
Ken Paxton makes a win possible for Democrats.
A fabulous new history of the Cambridge Five by Antonia Senior provides the definitive account of Britain’s most famous traitors.
There will be pretrial motions to dismiss on constitutional grounds the ‘seashell’ charges that Comey threatened to kill President Trump.
RFK Jr. responded to social media concerns by sharing a video showing how he and wife Cheryl Hines carefully handled a venomous rattlesnake rescue.
Jill Biden recalled fearing Joe Biden was having a stroke during his 2024 debate against Trump, sparking criticism from conservatives and media figures.
Chairman Kevin Warsh will face resistance to reform from colleagues eager to protect their turf.
Contemporary anti-Zionism encodes a totalising worldview that blends the tributaries of Nazi, communist, and Islamist anti-Zionism into a single stream.
President Trump dismissed Delaney Hall protesters as fake and paid for as Democratic lawmakers alleged overcrowding and poor conditions at the ICE detention center.
John Cornyn became the second Republican senator to lose his seat in less than two weeks. A Trump endorsement helped propel Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to a more than 25-point victory.
Seattle residents built street barricades to stop rampant shootings months after socialist Mayor Katie Wilson took office, sparking online criticism.
The runoff was a test of whether the Democratic Party could successfully distance itself from a left-wing candidate whom leaders called antisemitic.
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Old Glory Blue? American Flag Blue? Let's reflect on all the shades, while a federal judge mulls "aesthetic injury" in Trump's latest decorating flourish.
The Pentagon informed allies it plans to reduce U.S. military contributions to NATO by one-third to one-half amid a push for European burden-sharing.
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.
Five years after it helped promote a nationwide social panic over ‘unmarked graves,’ the Globe & Mail admits those graves might not actually exist—while also suggesting that it doesn’t really matter anyway.
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…
Anthony Maras has made one of the best films so far this year.
From Democratic antitrust theory to Mary Todd Lincoln.
The General Services Administration joins the White House fraud task force to combat waste and abuse in federal contracting and procurement systems.
Paxton’s win, with Trump’s support, in an intramural GOP contest tells us nothing about how the broad public views the war.
A federal judge ruled Democrats' bid to block Trump's executive order on mail ballot delivery was premature since no agency has yet acted on it.
The cost question - Is it worth it? - is what the president always has to ask, an official said of using further military force in Iran.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The ruling allowed the Trump administration to continue to pursue changes that include enlisting the Postal Service in checking voters against a national database.
Iran’s nuclear program is a big one.
NewsNation's Leland Vittert shared comments from Secretary of State Rubio and Vice President Vance to argue that the U.S. no longer shares values with its NATO allies or derives any benefit from remaining in the alliance.
What could be worse than a Senate candidate with a Nazi tattoo?
President Donald Trump has put the US economy through the wringer.
Ms. Carroll, who prevailed in a civil trial after accusing President Trump of sexual abuse, is the latest target in a Justice Department campaign going after his perceived enemies.
The surprising demand to appear at a hearing suggested new concern about the Trump administration’s efforts to repay the full $166 billion owed from illegally imposed tariffs.
In a striking shift, White voters without college degrees who voted to reelect Trump by a huge margin are now net-negative on his job approval.