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Two recent films offer very different portraits of Chris Hansen, the controversial journalist behind America's hit TV show ‘To Catch a Predator.’
After a decade at the center of American politics, President Trump is politically wounded, with diminished power. Those who know him say the next two years will be unpredictable.
Larry Page, Larry Ellison, and Peter Thiel are breathing a sigh of relief after California voters soundly rejected Proposition 40, the ballot measure that would have taken a one-time 5% bite out of the fortunes of the state's billionaires.
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.
Erika Kirk invoked her late husband Charlie Kirk's words, urging conservatives to stay positive and avoid infighting after election setbacks.
Florida is one of the only red states that did not see a wipeout for Republicans.
As the 2028 race for the White House looms, grocery prices, gas costs and healthcare top what voters want newly elected officials to tackle first.
Our reporter Emily Badger visits the site of President Trump’s proposed 250-foot-tall triumphal arch.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is officially running to be Speaker of the House after Republicans' midterm losses on Tuesday night.
The conservative justice has told friends he does not plan to step down before the end of the court’s term, even as Democrats are set to seize the Senate in January.
Victories by moderates in competitive or Republican-leaning states and districts paved the way for large new Democratic majorities likely to be shaped by their priorities.
The electoral backlash extended even into deep red states and indicated that President Trump has lost his hold over the coalition that lifted him to the White House twice.
The Maine Republican survived tough cycles in the past even as the political ground shifted beneath her. But the anti-Trump fever in her state doomed her this time.
Although IVF is often branded as a harmless technology, it is in practice a eugenic tool.
President Trump’s 250-foot arch project is expected to win approval on Thursday from a federal planning board. Court action and Democrats’ upcoming control of Congress could halt the plans.
We treat every hour as preparation for some future payoff, but some of the best ways to spend a life accomplish nothing at all.
Some Democrats quickly signaled they could try to roll back the president’s tax and trade policies, ignoring his early veto threats.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton offered their thoughts on the heels of the midterm elections.
About a half-dozen Democratic doctors and nurses ran for Congress. Some made opposition to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. central to their campaigns.
In Texas, California and beyond, Hispanic voters shifted their support to Democratic candidates after siding with Republicans in 2024.
Kirk's death cast a shadow over the Trump admin and marked off a downward spiral that may have reached electoral rock bottom last night.
In a new book about the Carolingian Empire, historian James T. Palmer argues that its founder was more than just a brutal warlord. He was also ‘a savant with a large library and a taste for the obscure.’
The two companies settled billing disputes between doctors and insurers, keeping patients out of the middle. One let doctors win 96 percent of the time.
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).
Sen. Ted Cruz called the 2026 midterms a "blue tsunami" after James Talarico defeated Ken Paxton and Gina Hinojosa unseated Greg Abbott in Texas.
GOP insiders blame Trump after Election Night's blue tsunami flipped both chambers, with Democrats scoring seven Senate and 27 House pickups.
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…
Since October 2023, four-fifths of the encyclopedia’s article on Zionism has been replaced, and the historians it cites—Benny Morris among them—are misrepresented.
As US Special Envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello was sent to help return the country to civilian rule. Sudanese democrats say his choices empowered the very networks that buried it.
Well, the results are in, and the Republican Party got absolutely annihilated in the midterm elections. They massively lost the House, as expected, and they also lost the Senate, as I predicted. But Democrats won way, way, way more seats than even…
Texas and North Carolina saw the wildest outcomes on election night.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
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.
Republicans had a few wins, however small, that are worth celebrating.
Gavin Newsom is soliciting emergency donations while Marc Elias' law firm prepares for a legal fight as the Mississippi Senate race remains uncalled.
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…
How an unpopular president and an unpopular war provided an opening for Democrats to make sweeping gains in the midterms.
The midterm elections delivered a strong repudiation of Trump and GOP policies, and a triumph for Schumer and Jeffries.
"So, what I really want you to do is pretend, please, that I'm on the ballot." President Trump implored Americans across the country to vote for Republican candidates based on his performance in the last two years.
Trump’s shortcuts toward his desired policies came at an enormous political cost.
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 midterm results laid bare the deep unpopularity of the war of choice that President Trump started and is now struggling to end.
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The former deputy mayor of Jerusalem on her family’s Sephardi history, 7 October, and why she wants Jewish students to study in Israel.
The idea that the war was the whole problem, and that nothing else need be learned, is arrant nonsense.
Firebrand GOP Florida rep says party must prepare for difficult two years, says Republicans bear responsibility for loss as a team
The vice president’s take calls to mind Milton’s description of Eden, and the terrible folly by which mankind forfeited Paradise.
The Republican Party’s next phase can’t come soon enough.
Quite a few accreditors maintain DEI requirements in some form.
The boomer Republican mindset exists for good reason. But it supplies no answers to the foreign-policy challenges of the last 35 years
A White House official blamed the Iran war for midterm losses and suggested Trump may hold Pete Hegseth accountable during the lame duck session.
Tuesday's election results demolished the conventional wisdom that Democrats need to run cautious, corporate-friendly centrists to win in purple and red states.
Republicans didn’t attack Democratic Senate candidates on this issue at all.
The son of Nicolas Sarkozy on the riots, the rise of Marine Le Pen, and why he thinks France may have to burn before it can rebuild.
The breadth of the Democrats' win means they have the opportunity to break that partisan stalemate that has gripped the country since 2000.
Voters in several states who gave victories to Democrats also approved ballot measures to establish voter ID laws and require proof of citizenship to vote.
In a night full of incredible victories for Team Blue, none was more remarkable or significant than Texas state legislator James Talarico's landslide win over Attorney General Ken Paxton for a U.S. Senate seat that Republicans had held since 1961.
After an inconclusive election, Israel’s Arab parties hold the balance of power—but a renewed war with Iran may yet hand Netanyahu another chance.
Read how Gabriel Zucman is reacting to the defeat of his wealth tax proposal in California.
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.
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All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
An appeals court handed NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani a legal victory Wednesday, allowing his administration to move forward with a tax on high-end second homes despite ongoing legal challenges.
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JD Vance blamed the Iran war for the GOP's midterm losses and laid out four tasks he says will bring disaffected Republican voters back to the party.
California's Prop 40 billionaire tax pits the Democratic Socialists of America against Gavin Newsom, who backs a countermeasure to block it.
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