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Men are quietly leaving the workforce—not for lack of jobs, but for lack of purpose.
There’s been something in the air in D.C. this summer — namely wildfire smoke and frustration over Canada’s inability to keep it on its side of the border.
Reining in federal spending was never going to be so easy.
The Trump administration announced the award after allowing the previous contract with a longtime legal provider to expire.
Artists increasingly insist that their work and their politics are indivisible. They should not be surprised when the institutions that fund them agree.
Nobody tell the boss.
Abdul El-Sayed, a public-health official who lost in a primary landslide when he ran for governor of Michigan eight years ago, eked out a victory over Representative Haley Stevens on Tuesday night in one of the most closely watched, bitterly conte…
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.
Homer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar.
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.
Sen. Jon Husted joined Sen. Bernie Moreno, Miller’s former father-in-law, in calling for the embattled congressman to step aside.
The county attorney asked Gov. Greg Abbott to authorize the extradition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro on charges of assault.
Democrats are ahead in polls, and voters typically punish the party that controls the White House during midterms. But Republicans have several paths to maintaining power.
After Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth, a Senate committee takes action, after obtaining a copy of his phone
Michigan House Republicans cut future funding for Rx Kids after questioning its voter registration ties and payments to undocumented recipients.
Progressive Democrats scored key wins in Michigan's primary, and now Wisconsin's governor race and Minnesota's senate primary are the next battlegrounds.
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Hong, a democratic socialist running for Wisconsin governor, is getting attention for social media posts calling for canceling Thanksgiving and abolishing police.
A White House effort to delay a ban on intoxicating hemp was holding up a final agreement on a bipartisan spending bill ahead of a monthlong Senate recess.
The evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
Mr. Ogles, a two-term congressman, had held off primary threats before, despite controversy. But on Thursday, Charlie Hatcher, a former state agriculture commissioner, delivered an upset.
Lars von Trier’s harrowing but resplendent story of suffering and grace turns thirty this year.
One lawmaker faces domestic abuse allegations; another, allegations of inappropriate behavior toward female staffers.
While administration officials say the changes will save money by lifting onerous requirements, advocates fear the anti-poverty program will be gutted.
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.
Two Republican lawmakers have endorsed a primary opponent of Representative Cory Mills, who has been accused of assault and is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee.
Virginia will ask the Supreme Court to hear a dispute over a seven-character license plate message.
63 percent say their personal finances are either good or excellent. 34 percent say that the economy is good or excellent. What gives?
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 administration will impose a minimum import price for polysilicon, a key component for semiconductors and solar panels, as well as tariffs for products made with the material.
When the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine speak, Americans assume they are hearing from thousands of the country's most accomplished researchers. That isn't always true.
The Kentucky Republican has been absent from Congress for nearly two months after a health episode. He said he would continue recovering from home.
As usual, the sneering back-and-forth on X about the cost of a Mexican-food lunch is conflating multiple issues.
The Patriot Games now have an official schedule, with events Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Marsha Blackburn leads Tennessee's Republican gubernatorial primary despite Trump staying neutral, while key congressional races reshape the state's map.
Far-left candidates are toppling Schumer's establishment picks in key primaries. Could the Senate Minority Leader be facing a challenge to his own leadership? Here's what's happening.
The orders come after the Supreme Court ruled June 30 that President Trump’s previous efforts to end birthright citizenship were unconstitutional.
How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
The longtime infectious-disease scientist refused to answer questions from committee members at a hearing last week.
State Department spokesperson says DUI arrests are driving many visa revocations as the Trump administration enforces an America first visa policy.
Base Co. LTD was fighting a trade case before the Commerce Department at the time of the payment.
Marsha Blackburn defeated John Rose and Monty Fritts in the Tennessee GOP primary, positioning her as the likely next governor of the state.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Kids, this administration can’t even roll back a Biden Covid decision to let abortion pills go through the mail without an in-person doctor visit.
With the Senate majority in play, the party is racing to reunite a coalition left fractured by the primary fight between Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens.
In the chaotic Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor, Hong has had the ‘Mao was too moderate’ lane all to herself.
Over the past 24 hours, America's hawkish pundits have got deep into the business of how best to cook burritos, how to keep burrito budgets down, and whether kids these days are too profligate with their burrito spending. No, really: this is what …
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…
A super PAC bankrolled by a California billionaire and frequent Democratic donor spent $2 million to unseat Andy Ogles over renewable energy policy.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani repeatedly declined to address reports of a fall campaign to build support for higher taxes on wealthy residents and corporations.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed can no more renounce his association with his Bolshevist booster than he can shed his own views.
Video shows Zohran Mamdani booed off stage in under a minute at the NYPD National Night Out event on Staten Island as crowds chanted against him.
Whether a model is open or closed, the more important distinction is whether it was built through innovation or through theft.
The first thing to say about Abdul el Sayed's victory in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary is that it's not a story about polls.
Restoring the academy requires more than budget cuts-it needs grant funding for the research that the Left has ignored.
It’s the money supply. It’s always been the money supply.
A brutal reminder of the consequences of Ukraine’s lack of anti-ballistic interceptors.
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.
Frank Miller’s valuable new memoir explores the creative life of one of America’s most gifted writers and artists.
Students need to learn how to think and write independently while also developing the judgment to use artificial intelligence effectively.
The president signed executive orders that target children born to “alien enemies,” foreign lobbyists or tourists. The orders are certain to face legal challenges.
The constitutional right against self-incrimination has been invoked on several occasions during high-profile — and contentious — hearings.
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Public confidence in the Supreme Court has reached a record low.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The Trump administration is sending back record numbers of Vietnamese, Laotians and Hmong. Many came to the United States as young war refugees and later committed crimes.
A redistricting lawsuit alleges Maryland officials missed mandatory deadlines for HB 2100 and used a last-minute clause to bypass certification rules.
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…
The percentage of high-ranking officer nominations going to women is currently at its lowest level in over two decades.
Sen. Mitch McConnell has been discharged from a rehabilitation facility and will continue recovering at home after a June fall in Kentucky.
The orders deny visas to those entering the country to give birth, and Trump promised "very big crackdowns" on organized birth tourism operations.
Being at a Final Profession Mass for the Sisters of Life is like entering into heaven for just a moment.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Hawaii professor Ashley Rubin, co-author of the recently published ‘Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences’
Squad-backed 'Tennessee Three' lawmaker Justin Pearson won the Democrat primary in Tennessee's redrawn 9th Congressional District after redistricting split the Memphis-area district.
The move ends the criminal case for David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, after prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.
It's time to extend the 14th Amendment's protections to children born via international commercial surrogacy schemes.
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The Kentucky Republican has been absent from the Senate since he was hospitalized June 14 following a fall at home.