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Gustavo Gordillo, a leader of the New York D.S.A., wants to reach new voters. But in interviews with conservative media, the backlash can be sharp.
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
The president backs Graham’s sister, but each contender in South Carolina’s Senate primary has found themselves out of step with him in some way, and a runoff is likely.
Mike Rowe calls out the Democratic leaders who are flirting with the ‘really bad idea’ of socialism.
U.S. electricity demand surged 7% since 2020, but two decades of disinvestment hollowed out the workforce and supply chain needed to meet it.
Senator Chuck Grassley mourned his decades-long cleaning companion, writing on social media: “GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse.”
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Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Political leaders, here and around the world, need to grapple with tech’s acute challenge to the human future.
Homer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar.
The US president's profound ignorance of his enemy has led to an impotent cycle of empty threats, analysts say
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s call with the former president comes as he tries to win over wary Democrats in Michigan’s high-stakes Senate race.
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…
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Trump shared court documents on Truth Social showing a National Park Service employee alleged David Hearn "violently" ripped at the Reflecting Pool.
Lars von Trier’s harrowing but resplendent story of suffering and grace turns thirty this year.
This is not the same minority protection the Senate had for most of its history.
Representative Ed Case beat Jarrett Keohokalole, a younger progressive, in a race that centered on questions of generational change and the state’s skyrocketing cost of living.
Conservative students say inflation and housing costs drive peers toward democratic socialism as both parties battle for Capitol Hill this November.
Different in this way: the next senator will not share the fixation on foreign policy, and especially on military conflict, that marked Lindsey Graham's 24 years in the Senate.
Representative Jared Huffman of California, the only self-declared “humanist” in Congress, writes in a new book that the separation of church and state is in grave danger.
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Civics programs are on the rise.
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
Until Democratic moderates stand up for their beliefs against the party's radicals, they will keep losing.
The early-morning 50-49 vote grants President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer a full stint as the head of the Justice Department, which has been rocked by vacancies and controversies.
How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
In a new book, Robert O’Connell situates the battlefield tactics of ancient Greek hoplites within the grand sweep of bronze-age military history.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed she is freezing her eggs in Instagram videos, saying the decision empowers her while blaming the Trump administration.
A third-party bid by the disaffected MAGA podcaster would be difficult - and beneficial to Democrats
What Senate leadership intended in the 1970s and what actually resulted don’t match up.
The Democratic congresswoman, 36, said she made the decision to undergo the fertility procedure to “feel more in control of my life.”
New Prime Minister Andy Burnham's claim that all of Britain's issues stem from Thatcherism highlights his failure to understand the country's recent historical successes and challenges.
A year and a half into Trump's second term, what should they tell voters increasingly unhappy about rising inflation and sluggish job growth?
A look back at the 20th century’s most entertaining literary spat—one of the few such encounters that Orwell emphatically lost.
Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters called Democratic Senate canddiate James Talarico's Republican coalition claims a "pipe dream."
James Talarico bragged his church housed an undocumented family facing ICE deportation, saying Christianity is "just another word for causing trouble."
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.
In a BBC interview, Hunter Biden also acknowledged that the pardon he received from his father was “not fair” or good for the country.
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…
Terri DeBoer says Rep. Hillary Scholten's voting record contradicts her moderate image, citing votes on girls sports and the SAVE America Act.
Mr. Miller, who has faced pressure from fellow Republicans to end his campaign and avoid endangering a solidly red seat in Ohio, will stay in the race, his spokeswoman said.
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For decades, no one was arrested in Shakur’s 1996 killing. Then an ex-gang leader, Duane "Keffe D" Davis, started talking.
Unexpected primary results have complicated both parties’ paths to control of the House and Senate.
Michael LaRosa invoked his best friend's mother, who died jumping from the World Trade Center on 9/11, in his sharp rebuke of Abdul El-Sayed.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr. Biden said that former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s prostate cancer had spread into his bones and was causing pain.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Hawaii professor Ashley Rubin, co-author of the recently published ‘Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences’
A mostly forgotten movie of 2010 illuminates fundamental issues of artificial intelligence today.
As Todd Blanche officially takes over at the helm, the challenges for the Justice Department have been stacking up.
Before deciding whether to change the filibuster, we should decide what we actually want Congress to do.
A new book about the meaning of money argues for how to use finance to create a more equitable economy.
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.
Its leftwing insurgency was no longer confined to deep blue coastal cities; it had breached the walls of a critical midwestern swing state.
The president said Mr. Scharf, a deeply conservative lawyer and the current staff secretary, would replace David Warrington in early September.
What drove the Founders was ‘the accumulated experience of past ages.’
A progressive group says messages that target the wealthy and large corporations appeal to a majority of Americans who see the economy as fundamentally rigged.
Frank Miller’s valuable new memoir explores the creative life of one of America’s most gifted writers and artists.
Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee, has suggested that further scrutiny of the 2020 election was warranted and that voting irregularities sank his first Senate bid two years ago.
Victor Marx and retired Marine Col. George Markert form an all-Marine ticket they say can combat what Marx calls the rise of communism in Colorado.
The plan here could not be more obvious: Treat fires as a public health emergency and justify increasingly coercive regulation of individual freedom.
The Republican congressman, who denies claims of domestic abuse, has resisted growing calls to drop his bid for a third term.
Early Vote Action founder Scott Presler criticized Senate Republicans over the SAVE America Act and urged conservatives to pressure lawmakers.
I have it on good authority — which should not be a surprise to anyone who knows the author — that this is not a thinly veiled tell-all.
Before going up against Republican Mike Rogers in November, Abdul El-Sayed must heal the wounds from his fierce race against Rep. Haley Stevens.
Trump's proposed Smithsonian budget drops below $1 billion for the first time since 2020 after years of climbing federal appropriations under Biden.
For years — really ever since the political rise of President Donald Trump — voters have told pollsters and reporters that they want to elect so-called fighters. This trend has also led to more candidates who attempt to shake off true political sc…
JD Vance reveals $230 billion in fraud uncovered since Trump took office and explains why recouping stolen federal funds remains a major challenge.
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.
Artists increasingly insist that their work and their politics are indivisible. They should not be surprised when the institutions that fund them agree.
Progressives are being outspent and are receiving little support from the Democratic Party. Their tactics show a different way to succeed.
Employees say the performing arts center’s quirky-looking mice have an exotic back story. Do they?
Sanders is urging Democratic leaders to ban super PACs from party primaries, citing concerns about outside spending and influence.
Our sense of what counts as a bad or good jobs report hasn’t kept up with population trends.
The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president.
The White House staff secretary replaces David Warrington, who is leaving for the private sector.
I serve in Congress. Abdul El-Sayed's victory this week is only the latest evidence that my party is being overrun by antisemitism. We know where this leads, writes Rep. Josh Gottheimer.
Anemic job growth under Trump began around the spring of 2025, coinciding with the start of the president’s trade war with nearly every nation on earth.
Ohio Republicans now have no path to replace Max Miller after the ballot deadline passed despite domestic abuse allegations from his ex-wife.