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Anna D. Shapiro’s recent revival of Eric Bentley’s 1972 play about the HUAC hearings offered entertainment along with the pleasures of moral certainty and ideological reinforcement.
JD Vance framed the midterm elections as a fight over every American child's birthright in a Dallas keynote that previewed his post-Trump GOP vision.
9/11 was a powerful demonstration that notions of happy universalism were bunkum.
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…
Every few decades, the ideas with the worst track records come back into style.
The senator adopted the mantle of bipartisanship - but the premise of the event betrayed his framing.
Stark warnings from A.I. researchers have reverberated across the country.
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
Every September 11, America remembers the worst terrorist attack in our history.
Jurors serving on high-profile trials might think better of speaking publicly about their deliberations, no matter how enticing a minute of fleeting fame might seem. From what I've seen from chatty jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial, the lone hold…
A woman twice showed up uninvited at Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff's $8 million Malibu home, prompting security to call the sheriff late Friday evening.
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.
The president attacked three Democrats running for Senate this week with inaccurate claims to portray them as too extreme.
An organization allied with Senate G.O.P. leaders has booked more than $51 million in ads. Now, Ken Paxton has a financial edge after months of being outspent by his Democratic rival.
Speaking to reporters, President Donald Trump said he hopes to see Ireland become one country in the future, predicting reunification will happen over time.
Video shows Amy Acton's campaign staff confronting a cameraman who asked why she refuses to debate Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio governor race.
Pentagon 9/11 Memorial leader says new education center aims to connect generations with no memory of 9/11 to the facts and gravity of the attacks.
The United States has been officially neutral on an issue that was a source of decades of violence in Northern Ireland until a 1998 peace deal.
The judge, in halting the pretrial fact-finding process, said President Trump’s claim of immunity could “dispose of the entire case” involving the library to be built in Miami.
President Trump’s trip comes after a two-day Republican rally in Dallas, where he tried to energize voters amid fears that the party could face losses in the midterms.
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush received repeated CIA warnings that Usama bin Laden's network planned to hijack jets and attack U.S. cities.
As is so often the case in the left’s lawfare operations, the process is the punishment.
A community that embraces a set of shared beliefs is not necessarily a bad thing, but the value of solidarity depends entirely on the merits of the cause in question.
David Oscar Markus is the author of the Southern District of Florida Blog, which discusses trials and appeals in federal court in South Florida.
Anthony Tyrone Higgs, a Bahamian green card holder with a violent rap sheet, was arrested after officials say he illegally voted in the 2020 election.
Kathy Hochul pardoned a convicted noncitizen, effectively mooting a Supreme Court case on bond hearing rights for detained immigrants facing deportation.
Abdul El-Sayed's 9/11 video message drew fierce online backlash over his association with Hasan Piker, who notoriously claimed America deserved 9/11.
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Pennsylvania state Rep. David Maloney wants President Donald Trump to rename Lake Erie to "Lake Pennsylvania," following recent name changes to other bodies of water.
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A better way to think about DSA isn't as a hostile takeover, but as the vanguard of a radicalized professional class. It's a continuation of a trend already reshaping the Democratic Party.
Gas prices are high, mortgage rates are climbing and inflation remains well above target, complicating the president’s midterm appeal.
Differences in height between men and women—a biomarker of stressor exposure in childhood—suggest that poor early health and nutrition constrain what children are achieving at school.
Reflections on a morning that changed the world as we knew it.
The enduring legacy of heroes.
The fantasy-fed denialism of George Bush's Freedom Agenda has metastasized into a dangerous suppression of our most basic survival instincts in the face of a foe we can no longer name, but who is sure to attack us again
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Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Senator Jon Husted, running in a high-stakes race in Ohio, dismissed his political director because of social media activity displaying a “complete lack” of judgment, a spokeswoman said.
A new report on the Canada Research Chairs program analyses the reduced standards applied to scholars belonging to ‘equity groups.’
On Friday, the Commerce Department released inflation figures for August, and what they show is ... more of the same.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
English departments are increasingly ignoring the great works of the past, in favour of popular literary works that reflect activist themes and nonliterary works of political and social theory.
Very rarely do you see someone's worldview burst in real time - never mind on live television.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
At 10:03 am ET, according to the Supreme Court's docket, a group of Republican plaintiffs filed a brief asking the Court to bless a GOP gerrymander in Missouri.
Abdul El-Sayed, a Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, argues 'whole a--' doctors should decide trans treatment without government interference.
‘I’m proud of Ted Cruz for speaking honestly and openly about the nature of this threat, because we will not confront it unless we define it.’
Films don’t owe us the accuracy of a documentary, but greater fidelity to the historical record would have made for a better story.
Every situation calls for a U.N. panel of experts!
Francis Fukuyama’s new memoir assesses an intellectual life devoted to the health of the liberal-democratic idea.
A book celebrating American stories.
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the US. For many Americans, 9/11 is a distant memory, or not a memory at all-approximately 40% of the US population was either born after the attacks or is too young t…
The president appeared to embrace the idea that after 9/11, no risk can be tolerated, an echo of reasoning used by previous American officials in the “forever wars” that he has long denounced.
Sex is declining because the options seem endless. This is counter-intuitive, but biologically it makes sense.
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 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…
Political scientist Richard Hanania discusses why populism usually fails, why Western elites matter, immigration, MAGA, H-1B visas, housing and declining fertility.
The only fraternal organization for women special operations veterans held a gala to mark the wars that began 25 years ago. It came as the Pentagon questions women’s roles in the military.
No one following the White House's efforts to restore truth and sanity to American history will be surprised by Lonnie Bunch's departure
The Constitution makes states and Congress supreme in regulating elections. The president cannot usurp that power on the pretext of overseeing the Postal Service.
The mixed record of such programs in other countries suggests that the design of particular policies matters a lot.
Communism, in the president’s hyperbolic telling, is a graver threat to the country than the Pearl Harbor or 9/11 attacks were. Whether this midterm strategy works is an open question.
The stakes in this already high-stakes game of chicken keep rising.
How can my children #NeverForget something impossible for them to remember?
Advancing American Freedom warns JD Vance's childcare subsidy for stay-at-home parents could invite government intrusion and create work disincentives.
There is a suspicion that Morocco is not too unhappy with this state of affairs.