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Grim predictions add to the problems of a president already facing a sharp rise in inflation.
How we see politics reveals a lot about who we are. But it is less akin to a Rorschach ink blot than one of those reversible images, like the drawing that is both a rabbit and a duck. As messy as society might be, it is not some blob open to any i…
Earlier reviews had cast doubt on the idea that a foreign adversary was behind Havana syndrome, a range of symptoms that American spies and diplomats reported.
The DOJ accuses California of blocking a federal audit of voter rolls as the dispute over registration records intensifies in the Ninth Circuit.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces a $15 million investment in gender affirming care, calling New York City a haven for its LGBTQ+ communities.
The ruling was the strongest effort to date to hold the administration to its word that its plans to create the fund have actually been set aside.
The Justice Department sued Virginia over laws that could criminally punish masked federal agents and dismantle local ICE cooperation agreements.
Because administrators control the purse strings, more and more resources are directed their way, and less into actual education and research.
Dennis Spaulding's baby was two days old when Spaulding became a federal felon. He was later sentenced to five years in prison and missed the first years of his daughter's life.
Outgoing Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas predicted that President Donald Trump will experience "disaster" in the 2026 midterm elections.
Mr. Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan and a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been overseeing an office known for prominent cases.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Dear Senator Cornyn, I approached you respectfully at the airport, extending my hand & introducing myself. We were at the ticket gate with literally dozens of witnesses - passengers inches away. Despite a quib reply back from you, I kept things pr…
Iona Italia talks to lawyer and historian Adam Wakeling about the enduring importance of Enlightenment values and how to defend them today.
Follow President Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
Top officials and some lawmakers say letting a powerful spying authority expire on Saturday will leave the United States dangerously blind. But surveillance can still continue.
The arrest of U Min Zin, who did graduate studies at U.C. Berkeley and directs a research group on Myanmar, took place soon after President Trump met with Xi Jinping in China.
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…
John Healey resigned, accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government of failing to adequately fund the military amid rising Russian threats.
British author Josh Ireland’s new book about the murder of Leon Trotsky tells the gripping story of a rivalry between two very different men.
The positive impacts of GLP-1s are a reminder of the difficulty of forecasting the countless consequences of some event, innovation, or other development.
Hava Mendelle — army veteran, nurse, and co-founder of Minority Impact — speaks with Zoe Sankey about antisemitism in Australia, the red-green alliance, October 7th, and why she left the activist left behind.
Sen. Hawley demands investigation into $1.5 billion in Medicare and Medicaid funding allegedly used by Planned Parenthood for transgender procedures.
At least five have declined to participate, the latest sign that the national 250th birthday celebration has become a fragmented and partisan affair as the president seeks his imprint.
Some context on Magnifica Humanitas.
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are building the same thing: a holding company glued together by AI.
Ken Salazar, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, reveals he considered running for president against Biden after the 2024 debate, per a new book excerpt.
In 2004, he told the Senate that open competition would transform the industry.
The amount of oil and fuel stored by businesses and governments has fallen sharply since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott proposes statewide prosecutor, bail reforms and measures to remove rogue DAs as crime dominates the political debate in Texas.
Educators increasingly cannot afford even life's basic necessities, writes Randi Weingarten.
For all the financial pressure the energy-cost spike is putting on consumers today, it would have been far worse a decade ago.
Trump’s legacy will loom over the future geopolitical crises this deal with Iran will render inevitable.
The #CancelColbert saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.
Forecasters said the weather around Washington is likely to be hot and stormy.
The first time I remember being told that our two major parties had "few major differences," I was seated next to Ralph Nader on a plane for a story I was doing on him just ahead of the 2000 presidential election. He was the Green Party alternativ…
Meanwhile, Democrats kill a House proposal to extend foreign surveillance authority, as the Friday deadline looms.
Joseph J. Ellis is one of the most celebrated historians in the nation. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and once the holder of an endowed chair at Mount Holyoke, he was hailed by The Washington Post as the "most widely read scholar of the Revolutio…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s unprecedented tenure as Israeli prime minister may be about to end.
David Reich and the politics of recent human evolution.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
President Trump has made false or exaggerated claims of a Civil War-era push for a triumphal arch, hundreds of millions spent on repairs on the Reflecting Pool, and an absence of working fountains.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Author Quinn Slobodian has won acclaim for his attempt to link the famed Austrian economist to right-wing extremists. But his arguments collapse under scrutiny.
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.
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…
‘Only 25 states had voted for the same party in the 1976 and 2000 elections.’
The program allows states to invest benefits they receive on behalf of foster children in their care.
The disintegration of both the Democrats and the Whigs as national parties was both a sign and a cause of the rupture that brought on the Civil War.
What happened to ‘professional attire’?
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British liberals exclude reactionary cranks like Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur because they don’t have the stomach for a fight.
Britain's moral collapse has, notoriously, produced industrial scale-rape of English girls by Muslim men.
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.
This case shows how quickly tragedy becomes raw material for those who seek to exploit it.
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico once used "pregnant individual" instead of "woman" in a 2023 abortion bill, drawing criticism from opponents.
To say that that many Britons are unhappy with the scale of immigration into their country is an understatement.
The current regime in Iran cannot be trusted and will never agree to a deal that would meet the criteria Trump himself has established.
The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s new polemic against assisted dying is its failure to engage with the empirical record.
The party wants to do things differently than Trump and better than Biden.
Trump saw about a dozen specialists for prior check-ups, per past statements. The White House has declined to identify which specialists assessed the president.
Andrew Bates sparked a Democratic Party firestorm by criticizing Jill Biden's book tour for reopening debate over Joe Biden's 2024 dropout decision.
Sen. Tim Kaine says he has a "hard time understanding" claims that Karmelo Anthony's murder verdict was unfair or racially motivated by jurors.
Once the guardian of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus, it is now a polarizing force in the party.
A woman claiming to be a former partner of U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner alleges infidelity and says his Nazi tattoo story changed over time.
Angelenos across political lines are increasingly frustrated with the condition of the city; public services are strained while concerns persist over crime and homelessness.
Democrats and voting-rights groups have challenged the proposed rule as a harmful federal intrusion that could affect millions of voters who cast their ballots by mail.
How I read a confidential memo on live television—and what it reveals about ideological bias.
Republicans helping to strengthen labour law would once have seemed an outlandish prospect - no longer
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An odd wrinkle in the Supreme Court’s venue decision.