News and opinion from both the left and the right, mixed together so you can break out of your filter bubble.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
A look at candidates from President Trump’s party who are running on a platform of criticizing him.
The education secretary says her old furniture “cannot be configurationally or aesthetically integrated” into new office space.
France’s protesters are rioting against austerity that doesn’t exist. Macron might as well give them the real thing.
Some of the social media posts paid for by Gina Hinojosa’s campaign for Texas governor don’t include a disclosure, despite a state regulation that likely requires it.
The Department of Justice's Alaska Senate race lawsuit faces hurdles as legal scholars debate whether anonymous ballot analysis can prove confusion.
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.
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…
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…
Long before its baroque décor and class identity became midterm talking points, this durable restaurant chain survived some withering critiques.
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…
The president's love of kitsch once charmed his base. Now it's finally failing him
Nathan Cofnas: what was done and what was owed.
On this full episode of LARRY with Larry O’Connor, Townhall’s EXPLOSIVE undercover video catches Rep. Rashida Tlaib dismissing questions about Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s alleged Muslim Brotherhood connections and Egyptia…
Latin American democracy is being put to the test in Brazil and Venezuela.
Administrative burdens teach students how to defer to authority rather than dream big.
As soon as the midterms are over, presidential contenders are going to need to raise millions, quickly.
Bo French said the presence of Indian American students at a football game was a “problem.” His campaign for Railroad Commission tests whether these biased views are now mainstream.
Members of the team behind the Times/Siena Poll on what the data show, how they’ve improved their methodology and what it means to be “right.”
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A recent 'New Yorker' essay humanizes a woman who said she let her toddler die then burned his body. To what end? asks Kat Rosenfield.
The event served as a snub to Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico, who hosted his own Lubbock rally the same night.
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.
Arizona Senate president Warren Petersen slammed Kris Mayes after she said the state has "too many golf courses" during a water conservation debate.
More than 70 percent of Big Five publishing staff are women, most of them from elite universities.
In his longest social media post ever, the president hit on a kernel of truth about the
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).
Dueling rallies in Lubbock put the Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico on full display as Trump joined the Republican side.
Mary Peltola's campaign allegedly ran a covert "ballot composition project" to recruit namesake candidates and split the vote against Dan Sullivan.
David Lewis’s classic study of Pacific wayfinding shows how Indigenous knowledge can be taken seriously—neither romanticised nor dismissed.
New polls in Florida, South Carolina and Minnesota illuminate the head winds that Republicans are facing.
Gemma Tognini and Claire Lehmann discuss One Nation’s rise, Albanese’s leadership, government waste and the antisemitism that Bondi exposed in Australia.
The political reporter outs many of his sources as liberal Republicans looking to undermine conservatives.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Automated license plate readers have become a political flashpoint. No one talks about the dozens of children they've rescued.
The research could provide health benefits to most of humanity.
Maybe the New York Times’ editors should travel more.
Trump did two rallies in Texas - the first in Corpus Christi and another in Lubbock. It's his fourth trip to Texas to support Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton. Talarico held his own rally in Lubbock on Tuesday. He was in Corpus Christi on Sa…
Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who denied Cilia Flores' bond request and oversaw the Nicolas Maduro torture case, died at age 92 of natural causes.
Compute adds a kind of relentlessness to our intellect; it does not discover new horizons.
Kudos to Kellen Browning and the Times for not letting Elisa Rios kill the story after they’d confirmed it.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin blasts New York City after NYPD ignored ICE detainers and released an illegal immigrant accused of assaulting an officer.
The progressive Senate candidate has won over students with his politics-and, in at least one case, his protein intake.
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she privately cautioned Israel against overreach after Oct. 7 and questioned Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership.
Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican.
The move will block shipments from BGI, a major Chinese firm that U.S. officials allege is associated with forced labor and the abuse of minority groups.
Add Beijing’s touchiness to the list of reasons why western companies should, if possible, not do business in China.
This agenda should terrify conservatives.
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.
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.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
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.
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…
In a new book chronicling the lives of ancient figures, historian Guy de la Bédoyère describes the audacious power grab that almost unseated Rome’s second emperor.
South Carolina seems like a serious race; Minnesota may not be; and Florida still appears out of reach for Democrats.
Abdul El-Sayed accused Joe Biden of exploiting the Ayman al-Zawahiri drone strike to bolster his party's approval before the midterm elections.
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.
There’s no discernible reason for the pause in tightening.
Sen. Bernie Moreno blasted Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther over $225,000 in taxpayer dollars directed toward a Ghana nursing partnership program.
Everyone who is legally eligible and wants to vote should do so.
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.
Brazilian senator Flavio Bolsonaro has landed in the US after fleeing Brazil following defeat in the country's presidential election on Sunday.
Health officials will now allow some levels of a powerful substance to remain in products marketed as natural. The change could help a G.O.P. donor facing wrongful death lawsuits.
The absence of the concept indicates what sort of nation we are.
The advent of AI tech may kick off an arms race in cybersecurity, but in the end what it’s most likely to do is harden targets until they are invulnerable.
The Justice Department slammed Jay Jones' Election Day guidance as "bluster" after Virginia advised poll workers to call police on DOJ monitors.
Apocalyptic heresies recur so frequently because we really are strange creatures.
‘Apartheid’ is more a signal of the accuser’s tribal affinities than an objective description of conditions on the ground in Israel.