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The justices allowed the president to fire a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, striking down a nearly century-old precedent intended to insulate independent agencies from political influence by the executive.
The justices will decide this week whether President Trump can end the guarantee of birthright citizenship and fire a leader of the independent Federal Reserve.
Trump built part of his 2024 campaign around the promise that he would put America first, arguing that his first term stood apart from those of his predecessors because "No New Wars" began on his watch. But as his administration engages in conflic…
It is very rare for a book that debuts at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list to fall off the list completely the following week.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is set to send a bipartisan housing bill to President Donald Trump’s desk Monday, but it is unclear whether he will sign it into law.
The continent with the lowest number of hot days leads the world in heat mortality. Europe’s self-inflicted aversion to air conditioning betrays a deeper hostility to energy and to progress itself.
Bill Maher warns Democrats are 'well on their way' to blowing the midterms after three socialists won New York primaries last week.
The insurgent left just shook New York. Colorado Democrats increasingly think they could be next.
Federal investigators are reportedly probing nonprofits linked to California first lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom over alleged influence peddling.
A year ago, President Trump was bulldozing his opposition. Now he’s facing setback after setback.
Critical theory did not merely politicise scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The Strait of Hormuz is Iran's nuclear weapon: Two Iran experts on how the U.S.plays checkers and Iran plays chess.
Young progressives take for granted their constitutional right to criticize and protest their government-acts that in socialist regimes get citizens thrown in jail.
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Humans have not merely been shaped by evolution—we have shaped it too, through the environments we chose to inhabit and the lives we chose to lead.
Replies to Jonathan Kay and Maarten Boudry.
California's gas tax will rise 2.2 cents per gallon Wednesday as GOP lawmakers led by Rep. David Valadao urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to suspend the hike.
Khadijah Farrakhan, the wife of 93-year-old Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, died at the age of 90 years old. The couple had been married for 72 years.
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries faces his toughest challenge yet as Democratic Socialists of America candidates win congressional primaries in his own backyard.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
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…
Videos show state Sen. Scott Wiener being shouted down by anti-Israel activists in San Francisco, sparking widespread mockery from conservatives.
JD Vance as the Republican nominee? Or Marco Rubio? As voters look to Donald Trump for guidance on 2028, the president isn't committing.
Irked by Finland voting to allow nuclear weapons on its soil, a Russian lawmaker declared his country could still ‘blow up half of Finland.’
A Federal Reserve working paper finds unauthorized immigration during the Biden administration drove up home prices by 2.2% and rents by 1.4%.
It's been ten years since the purges began, and I still have a hard time believing it actually happened. Did so many of my friends really go along with it? Did institutions, corporations, and all of Hollywood allow themselves to be shamefully cowe…
The former Alabama Supreme Court justice and Senate candidate had asked the court to clear a path for him to potentially collect a jury award in a defamation case.
Part of the reason for the unwillingness of Europeans (or their governments) to embrace AC is eco-asceticism made more intense by AC’s Americanness.
Even before the Supreme Court granted him more power to fire officials, President Trump had effectively ended Democratic majorities at several agencies.
An expected nine-figure monetary aid package comes on top of $150 million that Washington already committed to disaster relief in Venezuela after two massive earthquakes.
The decision is a setback for Trump, who alleged that Cook committed mortgage fraud. She is the first Black woman to serve on the Fed board.
High primary turnout among Black voters in the South has given some in the party hope for upset wins in the region.
The president promised to save “Black jobs,” but his policies have resulted in fresh pain for the Black middle class as the employment gap widens.
Trump ignored Clausewitz, and disaster ensued.
China’s ghost cities are like a mocking glimpse of the Chinese century we were told to expect, and for which we are still waiting.
Mia Hughes and Stella O’Malley of the ‘Beyond Gender’ podcast interview Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the progressive ideological manias spawned during the Justin Trudeau years.
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.
Fed Governor Lisa Cook's legal battle against Trump centers on mortgage fraud allegations tied to properties in Michigan, Georgia and Massachusetts.
Every living former Fed chair and former Treasury secretaries filed a rare amicus brief arguing Trump's removal power threatens economic stability.
Just as his party is overrun by communist revolutionaries, Barack Obama has decided to take center stage in a frenetic public relations campaign, ostensibly to promote his so-called library.
Support for the Memorandum of Understanding entered into by the United States and Iran to end Operation Epic Fury relies on intentionally imprecise drafting and pronouncements made by the president and vice president that conflict with the MOU and…
Supporters of incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan say a challenger with the same name is not running in “good faith,” but a judge says that is not an issue.
Utah’s desert terrain becomes more alien the deeper you go.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
A tribute to David Hockney (1937–2026).
President Trump had asked the justices to intervene after a jury found that he had sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll.
Raging internal debates over foreign policy threaten both parties’ fortunes in November — and in 2028. Is a major ideological shift underway?
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…
‘If the aim expressed by [Darializa Avila] Chevalier to end Western civilization were to be fulfilled, the United States would no longer exist.’
Lisa Cook, the first Black woman on the Fed board, sued Trump after he alleged she misrepresented mortgage information and moved to fire her.
Europe’s struggles with air conditioning appear to have taken a hierarchical turn at European Commission HQ in Brussels.
A 2023 trial found President Donald Trump liable for allegedly sexually assaulting journalist E. Jean Carroll. The decision Monday leaves in place a ruling affirming the judgment.
After days of nothing but rocks, we ascended into a lush green forest in the sky.
In twin rulings, the justices said President Trump could fire independent regulators for any reason. But they affirmed the Fed’s independence, and said its leaders could not be fired at will.
If Democrats win back the House, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York could face a restive caucus.
Harmeet Dhillon says DOJ is 'all over' gun-grabbing nonsense after Andrew Ferguson accuses Virginia State Police of delaying background checks.
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.
In a rare dissent from the bench, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the Supreme Court undid “centuries of political practice,” and that the court concluded that the federal government had been acting in “open defiance of the Constitution.”
The physical journey of the Declaration of Independence tells its own story. Its imperfections and endurance reflect those of the America it helped create.
A.I.-generated images are the public face of this election overhaul. Behind the scenes, campaigns are using the technology to analyze voter data, craft campaign materials and write custom messages.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts in rejecting a GOP challenge to post-Election Day ballot receipt deadlines.
The president promised to “take appropriate action immediately” against Lisa D. Cook, a Fed governor.
As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, it is confronting a reality that Alexander Hamilton would have recognized immediately: the so-called "rules-based international order" was never a neutral system. It was a political construction,…
Keir Starmer is just the latest victim of a political reality created by Brexit—one that has, counterintuitively, turned Britain into a European country.
Officials in Ghent, Belgium, discouraged residents from using air-conditioning and instead suggested planting trees to cool their homes.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The justices had been asked to examine the legality of the state’s grace period for late-arriving mail-in ballots.
The case could open the door to stricter registration requirements at a time when President Trump has been pushing for them.
The US vice president’s new memoir leaves an unflattering impression of its author.
The court's TPS decision is devastating for those whose countries of origin are deemed unsafe. Congress must act
Some centrists would rather have Trump triumph than forge an alliance with the left.
The self-styled steward of order is its busiest source of disorder.
For Christians throughout history, blessing euthanasia would be a most profound scandal.
Nearly 250 years on, Laclos’s novel of seduction and treachery continues to scandalise.
That which we call Turkey . . .