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It's hard to believe this summer marks six decades since the Beatles, the greatest of pop-rock bands, released the album that truly catapulted them to that title. And I'm not talking about Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
At the White House’s request, senators tucked a change sought by the hemp industry into a crucial spending bill. It would benefit the son-in-law of Susie Wiles, the president’s chief of staff.
Jeanine Pirro faced a choice that all President Donald Trump's team members confront sooner or later: Do they live in his world, or the real one?
Angel Mom Kathy Hall recounts the night an illegal immigrant's speeding truck killed her 18-year-old daughter Hailey King in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Christopher Nolan’s creation is a big movie in every technical sense. But inside, it is diminished and faded: heroes who aren’t allowed to be heroes and gods who aren’t allowed to be gods.
Lars von Trier’s harrowing but resplendent story of suffering and grace turns thirty this year.
Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.
Reps. Cory Mills, Chuck Edwards and Max Miller face misconduct allegations that now threaten GOP control of Congress heading into midterms. Edwards has dropped his campaign.
The evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
Gov. Bill Lee just endorsed against Trump-backed Rep. Andy Ogles, a fellow Republican, ahead of the Thursday election.
Tuesday, August 4th on RealClearPolitics - Joined by Jim Peyser, Fmr. Massachusetts Secretary of Education and Senior Advisor at Bellwether Education Partner
The leftist streamer talks to National Review about his socialist vision.
This year’s U.S. House elections may not result in a 30-seat wave as happened 20 years ago, but they could still be really rough for the GOP.
CNN's Dana Bash set out to ridicule RFK Jr. on State of the Union. Instead, Kennedy's barrage of facts exposed the failures of legacy journalism.
Polls overestimated Abdul El-Sayed’s lead by 12 percentage points. That isn't unusual for statewide primary contests.
Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign collected over $115,000 from CAIR officials and leaders, including an executive who praised Hamas on Oct. 7.
Mamdani wants ID for city-run grocery stores-but opposes it for voting. See how this contradiction is exposing a glaring flaw in liberal arguments against Voter ID.
Every dollar stolen by a criminal is a dollar that fails to reach the Americans who need it. Our children lose services, and senior citizens go without care. Honest businesses miss critical opportunities to hire up and serve their communities.
Francesca Hong now says she is "serious about public safety" after previously calling to defund and abolish the police in her 2020 tweets.
The Senate advanced a continuing resolution unanimously, but Republicans and Democrats clashed over whether the deal blocks Trump's federal grants rule.
Dr. Erica Schwartz was confirmed as CDC director along party lines amid concerns over whether she would stand up to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines.
The head of the Justice Department praised the U.S. attorney in Washington after her tense meeting with the president.
Protesters in Madison, Wis., reprise CHAZ.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Joanna Whaley is favored to win the heavily Democratic district in November.
By framing terrorism and armed struggle as legitimate resistance, the pro-Palestine movement has unwittingly strengthened Israel’s case that withdrawal and concessions carry unacceptable risks.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Public health experts have a few theories.
Declassified FBI memos reveal the bureau opened a counterintelligence probe codenamed "Oxferd Comma" after Trump fired James Comey in 2017.
The pied-a-terre tax targets far more than billionaires, potentially hitting nearly 1 million New York City homeowners and crashing condo prices.
Rashida Tlaib's bill would block ICE and Border Patrol from accessing TSA passenger screening data, travel records and data broker information.
The upset highlighted how out of touch the power brokers are with the party's surging left wing as they try to retake control of the Senate.
Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's hotly contested Democratic Senate primary. Democratic ideological battles ended in mixed results in House primaries.
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…
Dr. Schwartz, a deputy surgeon general in the first Trump administration, has publicly supported childhood vaccines.
Homer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar.
The law allowing assisted suicide takes effect today in the Empire State.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed narrowly prevailed over Representative Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for Senate in Michigan, setting up a nervy race to November for the party.
Abdul El-Sayed won with a populist platform buoyed by voter discontent with establishment Democrats and Israel.
It’s easier for pollsters to locate upscale voters and college students, who favor certain kinds of candidates.
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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…
A proposal making its way through Congress would integrate the U.S. and Israeli defense and intelligence apparatuses more tightly. Some worry that it is a bad idea.
Three GOP political newcomers battled it out in Virginia 7th Congressional District to challenge Rep. Eugene Vindman, twin brother of Trump impeachment witness Alexander Vindman.
The former representative’s fixation on the Jewish state’s malign omnipotence is sincere. And Missouri voters don’t share it.
President Trump’s goal of building a “golden fleet” of 15 battleships could cost $275 billion, according to a government estimate
The common good is a collective project, one we take on within a complex system of government, with separated powers.
I stand by my original insistence on the importance of clarity.
Coming into Election Day, Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary was widely expected. A blowout seemed possible.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Debra Soh, author of ‘Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy,’ about neuroscience, hypergamy, elephant seals, politicised sex research, the perils of polyamory, and the sex-repellent…
Men are quietly leaving the workforce—not for lack of jobs, but for lack of purpose.
Unlike influencers like Hasan Piker, working-class voters mostly showed up to support Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary.
Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate candidacy poses a critical challenge for Democrats’ ascendant progressive wing: Can an insurgent candidate, with unabashedly liberal positions, win a general election in a moderate state?
His close margin of victory may point to challenges ahead.
Vice President JD Vance participated in an anti-fraud task force roundtable event on Wednesday, proposing reforms to help crackdown on fraud.
Voters in Kansas rejected a proposal to start electing Supreme Court justices, while Missourians declined to make it harder to amend the State Constitution.
Thomas J. Smith suspended his campaign for Michigan’s 8th District. Yet he is projected to beat Amir Hassan, a rival backed by the president.
Sens. Whitehouse and Heinrich say the inspector general must probe the agency’s internal documents after Justice Department officials said Interior concealed information about damage to the pool’s renovations.
‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a cautionary tale for the 21st century.
By choosing the Fifth, Fauci may have abandoned his pardon and opened himself to criminal prosecution for any crimes during the pardon period.
Abdul El-Sayed beat Haley Stevens in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary. Now he faces a harder test against a strong Republican candidate.
In the 30th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the expanding Jesuit presence of the late 1630s—and the increasingly bitter opposition it provoked among France’s local Indigenous allies.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
An Ethics Committee report detailed “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct” by the North Carolina Republican toward two young female staffers.
The Lone Star State has drifted rightward since the heyday of Ann Richards and Lloyd Bentsen. But every once in a while, you're allowed to get your hopes up.
Trump-endorsed Amir Hassan lost the Republican primary in Michigan's 8th District to Thomas J. Smith, who will now face Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet.
The federal government is ending its contract with a Kentucky nonprofit that it says pressured medical workers to remove organs from patients who were getting better.
Democratic Senate candidate Julian Beaudion dropped out of the South Dakota race, leaving only GOP Sen. Mike Rounds and independent challenger Brian Bengs in the contest.
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.
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.
About 1.5 million voters cast ballots in the Democratic primary for governor compared with about 930,000 in the Republican primary, as of midday Wednesday.
An absurd essay in the New York Times denouncing the use of ‘Civil War’ for the American Civil War is a sign of a larger crisis in the uses of history.
Muslim voters from across the country said they felt hope and anxiety as Dr. El-Sayed moved closer to becoming the nation’s first Muslim senator.
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’
Artists increasingly insist that their work and their politics are indivisible. They should not be surprised when the institutions that fund them agree.
There is real value in Noah Rothman's century-spanning chronicle of left-wing terror, but it falls short in analysis.
The Ohio Republican congressman has faced calls to drop his reelection bid over domestic abuse allegations.
So, which country is taking such bold steps to tackle greedflation? Let’s just say the story comes from the Moscow Times.
Abdul El-Sayed's apparent victory is a big win for the left - but a disaster for polling and a case study in poor expectations management.