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GOP Sens. John Cornyn (Texas) and Thom Tillis (North Carolina) are blocking Todd Blanche’s nomination to become attorney general.
Barely a third of Americans approve of Mr. Trump’s handling of the job, putting him at historic depths for a second-term president at this stage of his tenure.
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.
Ukraine and its supporters have invested years in trying to undo the skepticism of the country’s war effort harbored by President Trump’s MAGA movement and the president himself.
Senator Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It has emerged as a major issue in her campaign for re-election.
Alabama's Tommy Tuberville and Florida's attorney general say Biden's pardon doesn't cover state-level crimes tied to Anthony Fauci's COVID-19 actions.
Spain’s latest migrant surge suggests that when governments advertise amnesties and create loopholes, people respond accordingly.
Even excluding fuel costs, inflation is still too high.
Ninety-five days from the midterm elections, Donald Trump is struggling with Congress over his agenda.
A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.
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…
Our individual liberties thrive precisely when they stand on a rich surfeit of common goods.
Despite recurrent invocations of the phrase in some corners of the right, it’s not really that useful as a political theory.
President Trump’s announcement came at a difficult point in his relationship with the Israeli leader over their war against Iran.
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…
Voters will decide whether to replace a nearly 70-year-old appointment system with direct elections that could reshape the state Supreme Court for decades.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The common good is a byproduct of liberty and virtue, not something governments can impose.
A federal regulator fined the former lawmaker $35,000 over allegations of insider trading by placing bets on Kalshi about whether he would attend the State of the Union address in February.
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A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.
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.
Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.
Men are quietly leaving the workforce—not for lack of jobs, but for lack of purpose.
Remembering the legacy of J. J. Hanson.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
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…
President Donald Trump is not, historically, a Camp David guy. The wood-wrapped rooms of the Laurel Lodge are not his happy place. His predecessors have chosen the retreat as an escape from cameras and formality; Trump rarely objects to having his…
Denise Powell's unearthed Facebook and TikTok posts show her calling Nebraska's LB 574 gender-affirming care ban "discriminatory and hateful."
DSA member Will Lawrence calls for a federal moratorium on new AI data centers, saying billionaires are abandoning democratic principles in small towns.
The struggle over how to make housing more affordable has riven the American left for several years now. The fight roughly divides into two camps. One, known as the YIMBYs (yes in my backyard) or Abundance movement (taken from the best-selling Ezr…
The Italian government on Friday imposed border checks with Spain in response to an influx of tens of thousands of migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.
The president misleadingly blamed the Biden administration’s weapons transfers to Ukraine for current concerns over munitions stockpiles, among other claims about the Iran war.
Trump publicly broke with U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Truth Social, calling Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool damage a case of "VANDALISM."
Tony Lyons tells how The Real Anthony Fauci survived a media blackout and censorship to sell 1.4 million copies, and why censorship always backfires.
Hunter Biden claims in a deposition that he has no assets, no car, and no savings as a law firm sues him for $17 million in unpaid legal bills.
For generations, this Ohio factory was a way of life. Then came the final shift.
Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Lisa Murkowski urged Marco Rubio to release $608 million in family planning funds as Ebola ravages the DRC and Uganda.
The Grift Industrial Complex targeted Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey—and got buried.
California GOP Chairwoman Corrin Rankin says the Proposition 39 voter ID measure will close loopholes as Republicans target affordability frustrations.
The pied-a-terre tax sparked confusion after 900,000 properties appeared on a supplemental roll, but only 17,000 homeowners received surcharge letters.
Spain was invaded yesterday. There is no other way to put it. Close to 50,000 foreigners, mostly men, swarmed into Spanish territory and laughed and jeered as they went. Every generation before ours would have called that an invasion, and we shoul…
Trump vows to keep Todd Blanche as acting attorney general and revive the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund if John Cornyn and Thom Tillis block him.
Breaking with Beijing is more affordable than you think.
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Elon Musk's recent interview with The Economist underscored a simple but increasingly uncomfortable truth: In today's political climate, stating the obvious can sound like provocation. The Overton Window, the range of ideas considered acceptable i…
Rand Paul's vendetta against the former chief medical adviser shows how we can't move beyond the year from hell
The evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
Judge Allison Burroughs blocked Somalia TPS termination again after plaintiffs alleged Fifth Amendment due process and equal protection violations.
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.
In the summer of 2004, as the Democratic Party hurtled toward its second defeat at the hands of George W. Bush, the Kansas City-born historian and writer Thomas Frank published What's the Matter With Kansas?
‘The idea of government-run grocery stores is so insane.’
There’s a lot going right for the Democrats. Here’s what could go wrong.
There is real value in Noah Rothman's century-spanning chronicle of left-wing terror, but it falls short in analysis.
Our culture needs renewal. Some of our institutions need revival, others retirement — or at least some reinvention.
This is exactly what right-wingers warned would happen under lenient immigration laws.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.
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.
Artists increasingly insist that their work and their politics are indivisible. They should not be surprised when the institutions that fund them agree.
Homer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar.
The president of Ukraine had warned that the country was running out of Patriot interceptors, the most reliable weapon it has to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles.
A judge awarded the Democratic Socialists of America $5.2 million in an inheritance dispute, nearly doubling the organization's typical annual revenue.
Anthony Fauci's Fifth Amendment invocations drew parallels to Lois Lerner's case, raising questions about whether Trump's DOJ will prosecute.
Ceuta’s population today is ethnically and religiously mixed but has a clear preference to stick with Spain.
The head of the National Museum of American History doesn't want to talk about her exhibits.
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.
Spain has condemned the "selfish, polarising and unlawful" reaction of some EU countries to the influx of about 60,000 migrants from Morocco to Ceuta.
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.
Francesca Hong insists she can’t defund police as governor but never says whether she’s abandoned those views.
A shortage of Navy destroyers, used to defend against Iranian ballistic missile attacks, will force the head of U.S. European Command to prioritize the U.S. homeland instead, officials said.