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Anti-Trump 'No Kings' coalition organizes nationwide watch parties and a Jane Fonda concert as counterprogramming to White House UFC Freedom 250 event.
A $60 million price tag outstrips even the most lavish spectacles that medieval tournaments provided for feudal lords.
Trump endorses Rep. Mike Collins in Georgia's Republican Senate runoff against Derek Dooley, who is backed by Gov. Kemp, ahead of Tuesday's key vote.
There is overwhelming evidence that Platner knew the meaning of his Nazi Totenkopf tattoo before last year.
The Knicks had luck, but they also made plenty of their own. It was beautiful to watch.
Rainn Wilson says cancel culture means you couldn't make The Office today, calls out partisan hypocrisy on both sides for fueling divisions.
The Supreme Court faces 23 unresolved cases this term, including challenges to Trump's immigration orders, presidential firing power, and gun rights.
Workers removed Trump's name from the Kennedy Center facade after an appeals court denied the board's request to block a judge's ruling.
Mr. Trump backed Mr. Collins over Derek Dooley, a former football coach supported by Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican whose relationship with the president is strained.
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.
Iona Italia talks to lawyer and historian Adam Wakeling about the enduring importance of Enlightenment values and how to defend them today.
People's reactions to him are diagnostic.
Democrats face anti-incumbent wave as progressives like Goldman, Espaillat, Wasserman Schultz, and Matsui fight primary challengers.
Once a refuge from political division, major sports have become a partisan arena in the Trump era.
British liberals exclude reactionary cranks like Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur because they don’t have the stomach for a fight.
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…
At a moment when even the prospects of dialogue seem far-fetched, movements to redraw state lines to link like-minded regions, or even to secede from the union, are gaining strength.
The Democratic candidate for Senate looked to gain crossover appeal with a spot emphasizing teamwork and his own experience as a teacher in San Antonio.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s unprecedented tenure as Israeli prime minister may be about to end.
There is no obvious justification in American law for the use of lethal military force against an indicted drug trafficker.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Trump is 80 and still running circles around most politicians. The media's age fixation isn't journalism - it's discrimination dressed up as concern.
David Reich and the politics of recent human evolution.
Some context on Magnifica Humanitas.
When the appetite for moral reform becomes an appetite for destruction.
How I read a confidential memo on live television—and what it reveals about ideological bias.
The U.S. team defied expectations in a rousing 4-1 victory over Paraguay in their first game of the tournament.
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…
Politicians are increasingly asked to function as cultural icons. That's why a cage fight on the White House lawn represents a seminal moment in American politics.
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.
Most of America's billionaires pay little to no income or payroll taxes − even though these taxes pay for Social Security and Medicare.
Four candidates running in a historically Black district risk dividing the Black vote and losing to Ms. Wasserman Schultz, who is white.
Platner’s backers in Maine say with Trump in office and Senate control on the line, the bar is low and the stakes are high: “Purity politics don’t get us anywhere.”
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Statutory foreign-intelligence-collection authority will lapse at midnight, but there’s the makings of a deal to get it reauthorized quickly.
The Obama Foundation has yet to build a $470 million reserve fund meant to protect taxpayers, raising concerns as contractor payment disputes mount.
Ramesh Ponnuru on where ‘freedom conservatives’ and ‘national conservatives’ can, and can’t, find common ground. Plus, a rare treat: new fiction by Cynthia Ozick.
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.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Paraguayan President Santiago Peña during Team USA's World Cup opener, combining diplomacy with soccer.
Group of 7 meetings once embodied the effort to sustain the global diplomatic order. This year’s gathering, starting on Monday, symbolizes its fragmentation.
In her new memoir, Dr. Jill Biden, Ed. D., fondly recounts the moment she had
The ranger, who was fired after hanging the flag, sued the government on free speech grounds. On Friday, a judge dismissed the case, saying the court lacked the authority to rule.
Platner ‘is not what you’re intrinsically like if you’re working class. It’s not what you’re intrinsically like if you’re a veteran or if you saw action in combat.’
Talking to Noah about his sesquipedalianism, left-wing violence, using his book as a refutational reference, and if he’s Ben Shapiro’s older brother.
The #CancelColbert saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.
President Donald Trump announces intent to appoint James M. McDonald as the next U.S. attorney for SDNY, replacing Jay Clayton who was nominated as DNI director.
A reflection on the Stars and Stripes.
Sen. Susan Collins faces a tight re-election battle against scandal-plagued Democratic nominee Graham Platner as Schumer targets her Maine Senate seat.
When enough voters feel more pain from deficit increases than from deficit reduction, more politicians will try to stop the deficit from increasing.
You can count me out of the envy and resentment.
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.
A Biden-appointed judge ordered Trump's administration to restore national park exhibits on slavery and climate change removed under an executive order.
James M. McDonald, a veteran former federal prosecutor and regulator, has more recently been part of President Trump’s legal team, appealing his criminal conviction.
President Trump’s name was removed from the arts institution’s facade overnight on Saturday. Many questions remain, including whether or not it stays off.
What happened to ‘professional attire’?
For the record. SpaceX, Hayek, and the Progressive War on Wealth CreationThe progressive left clings to the fantasy that wealth is manufactured by the state and its pet technocrats rather than by entrepreneurs who risk their own capital to create …
A U.F.C. fight on President Trump’s birthday will now double as a capstone for Paramount’s successful effort to secure Justice Department approval for a mega media merger.
We weren't sure you could do it, but you came through.
Even for a president known for imposing his own reality on every situation, Mr. Trump has not outrun scrutiny over his age.
To say that that many Britons are unhappy with the scale of immigration into their country is an understatement.
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.
Iran’s new, more militaristic leaders have already survived the worst that America and Israel can deliver, and seem readier to take risks.
President Trump turns 80 in office, becoming only the second sitting U.S. president to reach octogenarian status while allies praise his stamina.