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The Supreme Court declined to hear Mark Cohen's First Amendment appeal after the Pennsylvania judge was suspended over dozens of political Facebook posts.
A nonprofit group contends that exploding the ordnance threatens the island’s main water source, sea turtles and an Indigenous cultural site.
CNN's Daniel Dale and other media figures pushed back on claims that Trump suggested Iran should attack Los Angeles and San Diego at a rally.
Three years after October 7, Gaza lies devastated, Israeli attitudes have hardened, and the movement claiming to champion Palestinians still refuses to reckon with Hamas's role in the catastrophe.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Randy Spivey, one of Pike’s attorneys, said Pike “is angry and confused about everything right now.”
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman’s account of the 7 October massacre and its aftermath is a triumph of dogged reporting and shrewd analysis.
These are not your ordinary Jew haters. These are Nazi wannabes in search of their Hitler.
As the former UBC professor exacts apologies and legal settlements from his accusers, Brad Cran offers a personal account of the collateral damage that the decade-long saga inflicted on the Canadian literary community.
A proposal would designate Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, as a presidential retreat.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
It’s the natural mirror image of our enormous investment surplus.
The president, who generally resists admitting fault, has recently made several reversals responding to ethical concerns.
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The president’s misinterpreted comments about Los Angeles and San Diego created opportunities for his foes and confusion for his allies.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin responds to Robert Lynch's essay on masturbation.
Do Europeans fully grasp what the fall of Ukraine would mean for the rest of the continent?
Chelsea Follett's new history shows how wretched life was before the industrial revolution, but our escape from it began long before the steam engine.
The consequences have extended far beyond the Middle East.
John Updike, Alice Hoffman, and the golden age of “witch lit.”
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.
James Talarico once said he didn't care what taxes had to be raised to avoid healthcare cuts in Texas during the COVID-19 budget shortfalls.
U.S. officials have asked Russia to provide more information about the lab worker’s reported death and the country’s elevated response.
Alito opposed the grotesque rule that puts a ‘ghost runner’ on second base during regular season extra inning games, while supporting more sensible changes.
Suppose for a moment that the Democratic trend we've been seeing in the early autumn not only continues but intensifies. What are the maximum gains Democrats might envision if they get all the breaks?
Moore is widely expected to run for president in 2028. But the Democrat must get reelected first.
How much is too much?
The embattled congressman, accused of throwing scalding water at his ex-wife and breaking his daughter’s collarbone, rebuffed earlier Republican calls to drop out.
A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.
At least 81 U.S. military aircraft have been lost or damaged in the Iran war, including F-15E Strike Eagles, an F-35A and dozens of MQ-9 Reapers.
Angela Paxton is urging Texas voters to support Mr. Paxton’s Senate campaign, even as she is divorcing him and accusing him of adultery. She has political aspirations of her own.
Declassified emails reveal the FBI's Washington Field Office told the DOJ it lacked probable cause for the Mar-a-Lago raid weeks before it happened.
Has the GOP Senate candidate’s excuse-making already begun?
In “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents,” Senator Thom Tillis details his regrets about backing President Trump’s agenda.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Trump's gimmicky checks are hitting mailboxes. The letters they come with are brazen disinformation.
We start the week with a hilarious essay from Julie Bindel, who recounts her days as a feminist activist in 1980s Britain. Explaining that hypochondria and performative disability are nothing new in these circles, Bindel puts the fragility of toda…
Material was still being applied to the bottom of the pool on Wednesday.
A conversation with Andrew G. Doran.
The Trump administration is investigating nonprofits that it says may be recruiting noncitizens for voter registration, documents show, even though noncitizen voting in the United States is rare.
The justices heard arguments over whether the U.S. Air Force can keep destroying munitions on a Guam beach under a program it began in 1982.
Inflation reallocates purchasing power to a minority of Americans who drive spending.
In one Florida district rated a “toss-up,” there was an outpouring of $5.7 million.
Danilo Alves Silva wore an Immigration and Customs Enforcement costume from Amazon at a polling location for the Brazilian presidential election.
Since October 7, 2023, the concocted narrative of a ‘genocide’ in Gaza has catalyzed the activist left.
Republicans are spending heavily to defend a state the president won comfortably two years ago.
The city of Boulder, Colorado, is seeking redress from the harms it says Big Oil caused to its community. After oral arguments, it's an open question how the Roberts court will rule.
The graduates of Hillsdale’s program are in high demand by schools that care about quality instruction, not ideological preaching.
The National Symphony Orchestra is practicing inside a building that President Trump and his allies say could fall on their heads.
‘He was elected primarily because people are unhappy with inflation, and they do not like the prices within the economy.’
Does remembering the date of October 7 make it easier to name?
A crusade against the ichorous.
My daily tracking of the 2024 race showed Trump with a pretty safe roughly two-point national popular-vote lead for most of the election season.
Senator Susan Collins, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the midterms, clashed with the Democratic challenger Troy Jackson over President Trump, ICE and more.
Surely no one can now deny the lethal error of throwing open a nation's borders to the world, while sacrificing the ideals of integration at the altar of multiculturalism.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews AI expert Gary Marcus about the possibility that a rogue artificial intelligence will turn us all into paper clips.
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…
If Democrats don't win by as much as the polls suggest, many liberals will be disappointed and the media will downplay the anti-Trump wave.
Trump will award Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su the National Medal of Science at a White House summit on super intelligence.
Randi Weingarten filmed a video near Newark's Delaney Hall migrant detention facility, drawing sharp criticism from DHS and school choice advocates.
This line must have sounded good in the head of the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate, but words have meanings.
President Trump had posted a map on his Truth Social account in September depicting Iceland as part of U.S. territory.
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.
Florida GOP candidate Dan Green explains his positions on Iran, immigration and fiscal policy, arguing his views align more with the 9th District than those of Dem Rep. Darren Soto.
Catherine Liu’s new book makes some valuable points, but it fundamentally misunderstands the trauma culture it critiques.
Republican Dan Cox said he’s asked his adult son to apologize for a purported private conversation posted to the internet.
Former Human Rights Watch senior editor Danielle Haas on how NGO reports get made, what happens to staff who dissent, and why she wants outside oversight.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Oct. 7 anniversary post accused Israel of genocide, drawing a sharp rebuke from UN Ambassador Danny Danon.
The intoxicating cocktail of anti-Zionism and revolutionary socialism robs the young and idealistic of their inhibitions and greases the skids for violence.
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…
Victims of the lawless public-transit system deserve transparency.
In a recent speech to American academics, a Quillette editor explained how Canadians convinced themselves that 215 child corpses had been discovered in an old apple orchard.
After confronting darkness far greater than any people should have to bear - We are still here
Senator Patty Murray, a former chair of the Senate health committee, is forming a group of experts to examine how to insulate the C.D.C. from political interference.
Populist political coalitions are forming, changing, fracturing.
To rediscover the university’s true purpose, we must return to our core practice of making distinctions.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
In Greece, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Western nations must embrace an earlier ethos of exploration and conquest as part of their civilization, to remain ‘at the head of the world.’
Amy Klobuchar praised the FBI after an 18-year-old was arrested for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired mass shooting at the Mall of America.
President Donald Trump announced a 40% taxpayer stake in Anduril's Arsenal-2 shipyard subsidiary, adding government ownership to the $6.6 billion deal.
Marcy Kaptur faces attacks from both Republicans and progressives over her campaign ads opposing transgender youth in girls sports and schools.