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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…
Former U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb has read more Pennsylvania polling than almost anyone who isn't paid to, probably because, for nearly a decade, that was a big part of his day job. Lamb won a hard-fought March 2018 special election by 627 votes in my h…
Caroline Downey speaks with Governor Lee about Tennessee’s economy, school choice, criminal-justice reform, and Dolly Parton’s legacy.
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…
The tragicomic obsession with disability and disease on display at the Last Ditch bar isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s been part of militant lesbian culture since the Cold War.
Nikole Hannah-Jones put racial solidarity ahead of her daughter’s education. Her daughter—and plenty of black parents—saw the mistake more clearly than she did.
Representative María Elvira Salazar, a Republican, ran an ad criticizing the Trump administration. It may have jolted other Republicans — and drawn attention to her Democratic opponent.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Amy Kremer's Humans First organization demands AI guardrails to protect children from chatbot dangers and prevent mass displacement of American workers.
Regardless of philosophical merits, the point of a loan is that it has to pay back and be paid back.
J.P. Cooney, Jack Smith's top deputy, advocated repealing the speech or debate Clause, sparking a heated clash with Sen. Chuck Grassley on Capitol Hill.
Being a victim of partisan lawfare and being guilty of impeachable offenses are not mutually exclusive.
Many eyebrows were raised by reports of a quiet word from the White House to the Justice Department concerning the pace of litigation aimed at restricting or even outlawing distribution of abortion pills. The word was "wait:"
President Donald Trump posted Tom Cotton's alleged cell phone number on Truth Social, urging Arkansas voters to pressure him on daylight saving time.
Hispanic voters are souring on Republicans. Here’s why.
If Anthropic’s Claude ever did harm me — or, on a more hopeful note, cure a disease I might contract — it wouldn’t be anything personal.
Rep. Randy Fine discusses the rationale for backing the conflict in Iran, explains the meaning of an America First foreign policy, and denounces Rep. Ilhan Omar on immigration fraud
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Without trade liberalization, what would have happened since 1985?
DHS General Counsel James Percival defends third-country removals on social media as the Supreme Court temporarily stays a lower-court ruling.
The Church of England and the failures of interfaith politics.
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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews AI expert Gary Marcus about the possibility that a rogue artificial intelligence will turn us all into paper clips.
The Deep South was the birthplace of the mega MAGA rally. How do people on the Gulf feel about President Trump now?
Public outcry to punish the alleged perpetrators in the Cornell case misses the point - the only solution is political, legal and cultural equality of women
The American Association of University Professors is now mainly a leftist political outfit.
Asked specifically what he wants from his Supreme Court nominees, the president replied, I do like loyalty, yeah.
Officials in Brazil have grown increasingly concerned about the possibility of U.S. interference in the presidential vote on Sunday.
When the new 'department of government efficiency' sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here's what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data
Former congressman David Rivera (R-Florida) maintained that, despite a $50 million lobbying contract from Venezuela’s government, he advocated for the removal of President Nicolás Maduro.
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.
Environmental Protection Agency officials say cyberattacks on U.S. water systems have surged several fold, shifting from ransomware to disruption.
‘Let’s not try to whitewash what Nixon actually was.’
Botched executions like Christa Pike’s have also fueled new calls to halt executions, with death penalty opponents saying the Tennessee case shows its inherent cruelty.
A month before the midterms, the president returned to Alabama and other places where his movement remains strongest.
Lindy Li reveals how her loyalty to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris unraveled, costing her key relationships and a personal romance of eight years.
Christa Pike and her botched execution in Tennessee.
Five new Times/Siena polls continue a run of strong results for Democrats in states that President Trump won easily in 2024.
The justice, the second oldest on the court at 76, told CBS News that he decided against stepping down last term. He could face pressure should Democrats win the Senate in November.
May his life continue to work miracles.
Catherine Liu’s new book makes some valuable points, but it fundamentally misunderstands the trauma culture it critiques.
John Updike, Alice Hoffman, and the golden age of “witch lit.”
In an Ipsos poll, 81 percent said they think tariffs ‘raise prices on goods I buy.’
In a recent speech to American academics, a Quillette editor explained how Canadians convinced themselves that 215 child corpses had been discovered in an old apple orchard.
President Trump weighed in on the case when asked about Ms. James, who has become a target of his second-term retribution campaign.
An interpretive method disciplines the decision-making process, but it doesn't free judges of the need to exercise judgment.
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest.
After a dry spell of more than three decades, Democrats are daring (yet again) to believe they can win one or more top-of-the-ballot races in a vast and stubbornly red state.
If you’re not already familiar with the casus belli that ignited the Gaza war, watching the fifth season of ‘Fauda’ will be good for you, but it will also be bad for you.
So what would it mean to turn back the clock?
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Gavin Newsom signed a 25% tax on private detention centers in California, targeting every ICE facility in the state and their profits directly.
U2 reconsidered at fifty.
A Biden-appointed federal judge ruled the law criminalizing noncitizen voting is unconstitutional, dismissing charges against a woman who voted in 2020.
Frank Strada resigned as Tennessee's corrections commissioner after Christa Pike's botched lethal injection left her hospitalized on a ventilator.
The founder of SpaceX, with billions of dollars in military contracts, joins several other defense industry executives on a Pentagon advisory board.
Bruce Springsteen and Dave Matthews headline a "Power To The People" festival featuring anti-Trump nonprofits mobilizing ahead of midterms.
The Senate Leadership Fund’s pulling money from North Carolina is the latest signal the Republican Party is giving up hope of holding that Senate seat.
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury at a senate hearing but confused the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team.
Haven't we seen this movie before? Voters, weary of a Republican president whose foreign or domestic policies don't seem to be delivering as promised, seem on the verge of a massive rejection of his party. Polls show Democrats surging.
It was the latest mixed messaging from President Trump, who regularly votes by mail, but has made baseless claims that the practice is “inherently corrupt.”
The White House said the one-time payments would be drawn from a fund set up to improve Medicare.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin responds to Robert Lynch's essay on masturbation.
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A proposal to bolster relations with the Kremlin through the purchase of Russian energy assets is striking even for an administration that regularly mixes personal business interests with foreign policy.
In a court filing, attorneys for Christa Pike allege that Tennessee officials failed to follow their own lethal injection protocol.
On Thursday afternoon in Dallas, in what looked like a farewell tour, the president of the United States told his Texas followers to "Hold your nose" and vote for Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton, a man he also described as a "pain in the ass."
An editorial in the Chicago Tribune laments what might have been had "Kenneth C. Griffin not become so frustrated with the state of Illinois as to move himself and much of the financial company he founded, Citadel, to Miami." The Tribune is respon…
Kurt Olsen, who previously worked as Trump’s election security czar, resigned from the “grand conspiracy” investigation on Monday.
The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees.
New Hampshire’s Senate race is considered a toss-up thanks to voters’ independent streak and the GOP candidate’s name recognition.
What's most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame.
At least 355 Native American and Indigenous candidates ran or are running in local, state and federal primary and general elections this year — a record number.
Sen. Tom Cotton, usually a staunch Trump ally, has vowed to oppose efforts for year-round daylight saving time. He reiterated his opposition Saturday.
The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.
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.
Former Human Rights Watch senior editor Danielle Haas on how NGO reports get made, what happens to staff who dissent, and why she wants outside oversight.
As in 2006, it doesn’t feel like a boom.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Texas, long a safe Republican state, has emerged as a top battleground in midterm races up and down the ballot — but especially in the U.S. Senate race.
In a new ad, Angela Paxton tells voters to focus on the “whole team,” not “individual players.”