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The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50 percent of the popular vote because of Ross Perot's third-part…
It’s a neat trick, but an old one. What’s most impressive about it is that it still works.
Another round of talks with the Iranians in pursuit of a ‘cease-fire’? What are we doing here?
Abdul El-Sayed attended six DSA events and headlined a fundraiser, yet insists he believes in capitalism ahead of the Michigan Senate primary.
This could turn out to be one of the big cases of the next term.
‘This is a work that has been treated over the last nearly three millennia very differently by different people.’
The administration accused California and Minnesota of fraudulent activity in their public health insurance programs.
Gov. Mikie Sherrill says a software error in New Jersey's motor vehicle system registered roughly 6,600 noncitizens to vote, and some cast ballots.
Reconsidering Israel’s wars in 1956, 1982, and 2026.
The demand from top congressional Democrats signals their plans to investigate the nature of law firms’ agreements with the Trump administration if they return to power after the midterm elections.
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, shot entirely on IMAX cameras, is the newest chapter in an old story: technological innovation creating new forms of art.
New Jersey announced that it removed 6,600 noncitizens from its voter rolls who were registered to vote between June 2023 and June 2024.
A House subcommittee questioned the director of the National Museum of American History after a scathing White House report characterized it as insufficiently patriotic.
The former president is fighting the Justice Department’s effort to release tapes and transcripts.
Troy Jackson, who is expected to become his party’s nominee in the state’s marquee Senate race, has long been an economic populist, but his positions on social issues have changed markedly over time.
Greg Abbott's executive order empowers Texas agencies to investigate hospitals and providers accused of advertising birth tourism packages.
Trump's endorsement of Darline Graham faces a major test as Russell Fry, Ralph Norman and others jump into the South Carolina GOP Senate nomination race.
Ossoff from purple Georgia is leading in polls and fundraising without picking on Democratic Party progressives. There's a lesson there.
The Ohio State University motto is ‘education for citizenship.’ The state legislature is working to make that reality.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
I still have difficulty accepting how totalitarian the pandemic era was.
Why reasonable concessions in a future Democratic Party platform are doomed to fail.
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.
Criticizing Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., said in a post on X that "After Cuba, Nicaragua is next."
Randi Weingarten mocked Trump's White House UFC event and called his tactics authoritarian during her fiery AFT conference keynote speech.
The Pentagon now requires annual testosterone screening for service members 30 and older, raising questions about treatment and fertility risks.
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…
Harmeet Dhillon says UC San Diego Med used hardship essays as a proxy for race, admitting Black applicants at twice the rate of White applicants.
Even the Gray Lady is raising her eyebrows at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's delicate political dance.
Some Democrats condemned the New York City mayor after he said his staff was discussing whether to arrest the Israeli prime minister when he arrives for the U.N. General Assembly.
The president met with his Lebanese counterpart, who is trying to restore government control over southern territory where Israel has been fighting Hezbollah.
The Trump administration is undoing fuel-saving efforts even as war in Iran, data centers and heat waves are pushing up gasoline and electricity costs.
Eighteen Americans were isolated for weeks in a Nebraska quarantine facility after being exposed to the deadly virus on a cruise ship. Many found the experience traumatic.
The congresswoman can run a serious national campaign on the left and pull a movement in behind it. She should get in early
Paul Waldman: Massive data centers are unpopular, but Trump and his right-wing billionaire allies are pushing them relentlessly.
Abdul el Sayed is a test of whether or not a socialist candidate can succeed in a purple battleground state.
Republicans claim that Olive Garden polices its Never-Ending Pasta Bowl more tightly than the United States does its elections. It’s not that simple.
Not for the first time in history, ordinary citizens are risking everything to save their country.
The president pressed the GOP to embrace his latest allegations, but many candidates kept their focus on issues they see as more salient to voters.
Beijing just launched a nuclear-capable missile into the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone and called it routine. It was not.
During my time chairing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, I sometimes felt like the agent of a state-funded extortion ring.
Gary Stevenson says Britain's wealth inequality is spiralling out of control. The data says otherwise—and Channel 4 never thought to check.
After years of empowering the fringe, Democrat insiders are discovering that the monsters they cultivated are now consuming them.
Mike Johnson's plan attaches voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements to a $95 billion budget reconciliation bill, which would bypass the Senate filibuster.
Hasan Piker, the leftist influencer, described Mao as ‘one of the great leaders of this world.’
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
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…
LLMs are incredibly useful, even astonishing. But they aren’t “thinking” about anything.
The norms governing scholarship now often serve to protect a rigid orthodoxy on certain politically charged issues—with ideological tests substituted for proper academic standards.
Immature comments ridiculing women in the public eye say far more about the commenters than about the women mocked.
American voters are warmer toward democratic socialists than MAGA candidates.
The Democratic Socialists of America say they are fighting for "a government by, for, and of the working class."
Troy Jackson, the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), yelled and cursed at fellow state lawmakers, interviews reveal.
Troy Jackson, who is set to become the party’s nominee, also said in an interview that he was not sure he wanted the support of Senator Chuck Schumer in the general election.
A distinguished historian of the Holocaust views Israel through the wrong prism.
Over the weekend, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared at a Michigan campaign rally with Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed. Is the answer to our problems to turn to the same playbook over and over again? she asked during her spee…
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Rep. Andy Biggs, the party’s likely nominee for Arizona governor, faced criticism from fellow Republicans over his handling of a small police force more than a decade ago.
H.R. McMaster accused Washington of being "extraordinarily negligent" on counterintelligence while China and Russia exploited America's post-9/11 focus.
Expectations were raised for a raft of pardons in connection with the country’s 250th birthday but the president granted fewer than 20 on July 3.
After the Supreme Court ruling, the birthright citizenship debate shifts to Congress and the states for possible reforms.
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Alan Dershowitz backed out of a voluntary interview, prompting James Comer to warn the House Oversight Committee will pursue compulsory process.
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