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The archbishop of New York joins nuns fighting for religious liberty.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
A crackdown on entry by some citizens of African countries by the U.S. immigration officials means that some contestants might not get visas in time to attend the pageant in Puerto Rico this month.
Simon Sebag Montefiore’s sprawling 125-year history of the Middle East is flawed and overambitious but filled with eye-catching detail.
The “Selma” filmmaker’s latest documentary traces the history of the 14th Amendment.
Nothing short of being at the precipice, on the sharp edge between the world as it was and the world as it will be, ever seems able to describe the present in terms that adequately capture it.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is delivering a high-profile speech on the "spirit of Marx" Friday at the Federalist Society' National Lawyers Convention.
The Treasury secretary blamed the department for not sanctioning the Singaporean firm and said that Nvidia employees should be held accountable if they sidestepped the law.
Kyle Brennan, 40, son of former CIA Director John Brennan, was arrested on a federal child pornography charge after an FBI investigation, prosecutors say.
Granting rights to nature would mire and suffocate economies in tar pit-like bureaucratic goo.
Activists demanding a Green New Deal and an arms embargo on Israel interrupted Hakeem Jeffries at the What's Next Democratic conference.
Hakeem Jeffries’ legislative wish list suggests the new majority wants to please everyone, which typically pleases no one.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that it was halting all departing flights "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety."
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 G.O.P. was able to avoid more House midterm losses — on top of the advantage it already had from gerrymandering.
What does this mean for Taiwan? We will likely find out soon enough.
The movement’s rank and file, young and old, are soul-searching as they look to leaders outside the White House, cross over to Democrats or disengage from politics.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said he wouldn’t run for president to focus on his leadership challenge to Senator Chuck Schumer, who remained confident he would prevail.
What's left for the Trump administration? Midterm voters scolded the White House as harshly as they could. Clearly, they don't like inflation or the conflict with Iran. But they're also offended by corruption and believe President Trump puts his o…
Three of the four biggest states of the old Confederacy are now hospitable to Democrats.
The federal government had planned to require poor adults to prove they were working or lose insurance coverage starting Jan. 1. Now, it will let states wait until July.
The U.S. government cannot leave chipmakers to police their own sales to China.
Two new books detail the workings of cults—from nineteenth-century Prussian heretics to the ‘rationalist’ Zizians of California
Chuck Schumer faces a rare contested Senate leadership race as Chris Van Hollen pushes to abolish the filibuster and shake up Democratic strategy.
Harmeet Dhillon probed universities and state voter rolls at the Justice Department. And she thinks most conservatives are too timid when it comes to the law.
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Scott Colom made reaching out to Trump supporters central to his U.S. Senate campaign in Mississippi.
What kind of party gets nothing done in the past two years, thwarts very popular key bills on the president's agenda, loses seven Senate seats at midterms, and then re-elects the same old leaders responsible for all the failure?
Join the Quillette team for one last summer night above the harbour.
What issues do you think the Republicans and Democrats can come together on?
Centuries hence, historians studying America in her 250th year will need a vast knowledge of psychology, emotions, and human relations to understand the Age of Trump.
There’s no escaping how large a factor the tariffs were in Republicans’ downfall.
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.
Newly elected Democrats at a Denver conference urged their party to work with Donald Trump on costs and policy rather than focus solely on investigations.
Can anyone maintain with a straight face that during this period, Republicans have become more fiscally responsible or more intent on fighting the spread of vice?
Colleges should try to reduce gambling, but they are moving in the wrong direction.
The company has endured a tough couple of years.
Democrat Eileen Laubacher unseated Boebert, a MAGA acolyte with a slate of controversies in her personal life that have spilled into public view.
Lower courts have ruled against the policy, which has effectively shut down avenues for people seeking asylum protections and to remain in the United States.
The request to extend a high-profile warrantless surveillance law would add a thorny issue during waning Republican control.
Sam Wasson’s new Capra biography is a welcome corrective, but it goes too easy on the director and misreads his decline.
Democrats won the midterms promising to lower costs. Instead of fighting over leadership, they should unite to repeal Trump's tariffs.
It’s the first of many fights over Israel that do not interest most Americans, but are nevertheless set to tear the Democratic Party apart.
The case is the latest immigration issue the justices will weigh in the coming months.
As US Special Envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello was sent to help return the country to civilian rule. Sudanese democrats say his choices empowered the very networks that buried it.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
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…
Pete Hegseth narrowly avoided becoming only the third cabinet secretary ever impeached after 11 absent Democrats failed to reach the House floor.
The administration appears to be moving toward a long-term economic pressure campaign as President Trump expresses little urgency in securing a nuclear agreement.
Kyle Brennan, 40, remained in federal custody Friday.
The hard-line position of Russian officials in closed-door negotiations about ending the war thrusts European security into the heart of the talks.
Rep.-elect Brian Poindexter, who defeated embattled incumbent Max Miller in Ohio, was accused by a former campaign volunteer.
An inspector general report this week also found that there had been insufficient oversight of Navy personnel assigned to his office.
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D) said Friday he has abandoned a potential bid for the presidency and will seek to lead the Senate instead.
The White House withdrew one of President Trump's judicial picks on Tuesday after GOP Sens. Boozman and Cotton blocked his nomination.
To win a Senate seat in a highly polarized, deeply Republican state, Scott Colom needed a perfect storm. He got it.
Is there clear & convincing evidence that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy?
The testimony of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre was seldom examined with the scrutiny that the gravity of her allegations deserved.
Senate Democrats face their first contested leadership race since 1994 as Chris Van Hollen challenges Chuck Schumer with Bernie Sanders' backing.
What happened this week under the Trump administration.
A new documentary about volunteer medics in Gaza has been made to elicit an emotive reaction from decided progressives, and to reinforce their existing biases.
Facing resistance from the left but no challenger, the Democratic leader is sewing up support from key coalitions as his allies say he deserves a unanimous vote.
New evidence suggests industrial civilisation interrupted the return of continent-sized glaciers. This is a very good thing.
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A White House Situation Room meeting erupted after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with a suspected Chinese spy tied to chip diversions was revealed.
‘When we want to honor and make something sacred, we build traditions around it that protect it.’
Rep.-elect Jace Yarbrough says he favors stopping immigration altogether and repealing the 1965 Hart-Celler Act as he prepares to enter Congress.
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.
Schoolchildren will learn about Donald Trump more than a hundred years from now, but his successor will likely be a footnote and historical nobody.
He may have disrupted his relationship with Trump, or at least created public speculation about it.
CNN reports that people close to Vance say he ‘has given serious consideration to not running for president in 2028.’
The making of John Boorman's misbegotten sequel to ‘The Exorcist’ and our fascination with creative failure.
In “Promise Me, America,” the former president revisits the pandemic and the conflict in Gaza, and explains his decision to seek a second term.
Trump's intelligence chiefs set a Dec. 9 deadline for Congress to reauthorize FISA Section 702 before Democrats take control of Capitol Hill.
Sixty-six years ago, the prestigious journal Science published what appears to be its first and only doomsday prediction.
In July, three soldiers died in an enemy attack on an air base in Jordan, another died at an air base in Iraq and a Navy captain died during an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea.
The 46th president defends his decision to run for re-election, which many in his party now regard as a mistake, and revisits the disastrous debate that forced him to end his campaign.
At the Democrats' first big 2028 cattle call, the hottest prospects aren't running for anything.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., lost her congressional seat to Democratic challenger Eileen Laubacher. Boebert, an ally of President Trump, was seeking a fourth term.