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Brian Fitzpatrick has a very telling anecdote in his defense of Louisiana v. Callais (2026) at SCOTUSBlog.
We have created a very expensive and largely counterproductive academic feudalism.
The bipartisan Protect College Sports Act will stabilize athletics for generations to come. The House and Senate must pass it before it's too late.
One might conclude that student learning has become an afterthought.
Fresh off a series of victories across the US, the Democrats' hard Left are on the cusp of their biggest victory yet.
Speaker Mike Johnson endorsed new proposals banning lawmakers from dating congressional staff as multiple sexual misconduct cases shake Capitol Hill.
How Australia's war on tobacco backfired.
Zayd Ayers Dohrn, son of prominent members of the Weather Underground, is not a chip off the old block.
Rhode Island Democrat Enrique Sanchez threatened ICE with a profane "day of reckoning'"post, escalating his history of calling agents "Nazi Gestapo thugs."
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The president laid out the new requirement a day after the agreement was signed, casting the future of the pact into doubt.
Dr. Amish Shah, who beat the choice of the party’s House campaign arm, will face Jay Feely, a Republican, in a battleground district that covers parts of Phoenix.
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…
Following on false claims that 215 child corpses were discovered in western Canada, a First Nations chief claims that Indigenous people can communicate with departed spirits.
Sen. Bill Cassidy proved the decisive vote again as Senate Republicans blocked Democrats' war powers resolution to restrict Trump's Iran strikes.
During my time chairing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, I sometimes felt like the agent of a state-funded extortion ring.
Your chances of running into a marketer at a neighborhood bar are slim but never zero. Given the remote-capable nature of the work and the continued growth of their economic sector, marketers have spread across the U.S., making the most of their r…
Oliver Larkin says he supports arresting Benjamin Netanyahu, abolishing the U.S. Senate, and ending military aid to Israel ahead of the Florida primary.
It's right there in his name: Sen. Mark Warner for months has been on a tear to warn Americans of President Trump's designs to disrupt the midterm elections.
Democrat Sean McCann's energy contributions from DTE Energy resurface as he campaigns to unseat Rep. Bill Huizenga in Michigan's 4th district.
For the second time, a few House Republicans joined Democrats to back a measure calling on the president to seek authorization for the war.
By dismissing the importance of biological sex, Robin Dembroff earned predictable acclaim from fellow scholars. But as a work of philosophy, ‘Real Men on Top’ is unconvincing and deeply flawed.
When elite institutions fail, public trust erodes — and populist skepticism grows.
Frustrations mount over how Speaker Mike Johnson manages the razor-thin House majority even as the GOP nets a series of big wins.
A distinguished historian of the Holocaust views Israel through the wrong prism.
The event marked the White House’s latest attempt to broker an Israeli pullout from southern Lebanon, where Israel has been fighting Hezbollah.
Marco Rubio surged from 7% to 26% in New Hampshire's latest GOP primary poll, dramatically closing the gap with JD Vance in the hypothetical 2028 presidential nomination race.
Many leads turn out to be innocuous or accidental, lacking evidence of malicious intent.
‘It’s powerful to use the word and to democratize its power,’ wrote a leftist podcaster. Zohran Mamdani and many other progressives share this outlook.
Trump flew to Delaware to honor soldiers killed in the Iran war, which has proved deadly for those far from the front lines.
A pair of decisions reshaped the structure of the federal government.
The mayor had said the city might enforce a warrant against the Israeli leader, drawing Democratic criticism. On Tuesday, he urged the U.S. government to do so.
The criminal referral could provide a catalyst for a prosecution of Mr. Smith, who as special counsel became a top target of the president’s retribution campaign.
Rep. Andy Biggs, who voted to overturn the 2020 election results, won the GOP nomination for governor. Among Democrats, a left-wing challenger failed to unseat Rep. Greg Stanton.
Analysis of Hasan Piker's influence on Democrats and the DSA's radical shift ahead of 2028.
Medical conscience is one of the most important liberty-related controversies in the country today. The Supreme Court is going to be very busy.
Socialism no longer carries the baggage it once did in the Democratic Party. An AOC run in 2028 offers something Bernie Sanders couldn't in 2016.
A collapsed ceasefire has pushed America and Iran back towards full-scale war over the Strait of Hormuz. Now Trump must decide whether to finish the job or give Tehran one more chance.
Chesterton wrote a novel over 100 years ago that helps place the significance of Rubio’s most recent speech on the century’s left-wing terrorism problem.
Agency scientists are advising against allowing widespread use of several peptide injections. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has said people should be free to experiment.
Senator Bill Cassidy, who is believed to hold the deciding vote in the Senate health committee for Dr. Erica Schwartz’s confirmation, had declined for days to say whether he would back her.
Nancy Mace's resolution would bar race-based House caucuses, effectively forcing dissolution of the Congressional Black Caucus and similar groups.
Tsegaab Ademassu Binessu allegedly killed three St. Paul apartment employees over a $65 parking contract before fleeing hundreds of miles north.
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.
Not even Trumpian meddling could dampen a nationwide celebration.
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The votes marked the first test of Republican support for the conflict since President Donald Trump resumed military strikes against Tehran this month.
Beijing just launched a nuclear-capable missile into the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone and called it routine. It was not.
An unspoken truth about ChatGPT's new flagship model that launched an 'unprecedented' cyber attack against a rival is that it has done the world a favour by exposing safety flaws, says Florent Daudens
A Heritage Foundation expert called a Smithsonian exhibit "shocking" for suggesting Benjamin Franklin may have used electroshock on enslaved people.
The president’s new condition could create a roadblock to the agreement his administration announced this week.
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The Ukrainian president is increasingly dependent on ultranationalist support from within the military and the defense-tech industry.
Republicans will make even moderate opponents answer for the radical views of DSA candidates.
It’s just one very early poll, but the result doesn’t seem that outlandish.
In the days immediately after Democrat Graham Platner dropped out of Maine's senate race amid an allegation of sexual assault, it looked as though selecting his replacement might be something of a free-for-all.
LLMs are incredibly useful, even astonishing. But they aren’t “thinking” about anything.
The ABA ‘has continuously pursued discriminatory DEI practices,' said Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas.
Israeli officials embraced the possibility of normalized ties, but analysts said the U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal nonetheless remained bad for Israel.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The Secret Service said that a member of Vice President JD Vance’s team was accused of “compromising operational and information security.”
Activist Rachel Moiselle on why a country with 3,000 Jews obsesses over Israel, how antizionism became a faith, and the cost of speaking out.
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.
Trump expands the Ratepayer Protection Pledge with 23 governors and 200 stakeholders vowing data centers won't raise electricity costs for families.
Republicans stockpiled money from big donors in national groups heading into the fall campaign season, while individual Democrats have drawn on stronger voter enthusiasm.
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.
As New York’s assisted-suicide law goes into effect, four communities of Catholic religious sisters fight back.
It's bad enough that Zohran Mamdani has become the leader of the new Democratic Party, having been anointed by none other than its King, Barack Obama. But now, their shining new star, Hasan Piker, is not even bothering to hide behind the words "De…
The few leftists who remember their support of the Sandinistas now try to argue that Ortega has betrayed his revolution.
Nuclear experts say it throws fuel on the smoldering fire of atomic proliferation, creating a destabilizing situation that could raise the risk of nuclear war.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The company, which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2017, stands to benefit from growing support for nuclear power and President Trump’s deal with Saudi Arabia.
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, shot entirely on IMAX cameras, is the newest chapter in an old story: technological innovation creating new forms of art.
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…
Karoline Leavitt says New Jersey's admission of 6,600 noncitizens on voter rolls is no coincidence as Trump renews his SAVE America Act push.
Democrats and Republicans are haggling about the Clarity Act, a major bill pushed by the crypto industry, as it moves closer to a Senate vote.