News and opinion from both the left and the right, mixed together so you can break out of your filter bubble.
Amid stepped-up surveillance flights, a visit of the C.I.A. director and an energy embargo, the White House is trying to increase pressure on Cuba.
China’s leader made clear his top priority is the fate of the contested island and its U.S. military support, a striking move given President Donald Trump’s effort to mend ties and deliver trade deals.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Calls to “globalise the intifada” have produced a wave of antisemitic terror and encourage an unending cycle of violence.
The Justice Department’s crackdown on crime comes ahead of 250th anniversary events in the nation’s capital.
Having deferred to the president for months, G.O.P. lawmakers missed crucial milestones to try to limit his war powers. That has tied their hands in seeking parameters and exit criteria.
In a new tactic, the Justice Department this week instructed federal prosecutors to build criminal drug cases against Mexican officials using terrorism statutes.
Xi Jinping is fond of invoking the Thucydides Trap, an academic foreign policy concept about how war between established and rising powers is inevitable unless one gives way. There's a reason for that, writes Aaron MacLean.
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.
Nithya Raman’s wildfire ‘prevention’ plan targets backyard grills instead of California’s real failures.
Top aides have drafted battle plans as peace negotiations have stalled.
California governor candidate Becerra denies wrongdoing after former staffers plead guilty to stealing $225,000 from his inactive campaign account.
President Trump says he will build a National Garden of American Heroes with statues in Washington D.C.'s West Potomac Park along the Potomac River.
The decision maintains access nationwide to medication abortion, the most common way of ending pregnancies in the United States, while litigation continues.
Rather than trying to engineer a grand bargain, this is a moment to prevent deterioration
The case now goes back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
If you talk to folks in the anti-abortion movement, they're pretty disappointed about the state of things in the US.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski helped Democrats challenge Trump's Iran war powers, highlighting her independent streak in the Republican-led Senate.
Democrats knew they couldn’t unseat a GOP senator, so they backed an independent and fielded a candidate who promised to drop out if she won. Then it got complicated.
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.
Representative Thomas Massie, the incumbent, has opposed President Trump’s military strikes on Iran. He is now facing the biggest challenge of his career.
GOP candidate Rick Jackson campaigns against DEI in Georgia governor's race, but his nonprofit promoted race-conscious hiring in a wide-ranging 2021 DEI initiative.
Thursday’s vote was one of many in Southern states following the Supreme Court’s recent decision to weaken the Voting Rights Act.
Trump returns from China summit praising Xi and trade progress, but Taiwan, AI, human rights, and Iran remain unresolved after high-stakes talks.
The warm words came at a Maine rally as the vice president touted Republican House candidate Paul LePage and highlighted anti-fraud efforts.
The transatlantic battle over social media and censorship.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin slams Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger for blocking cooperation after ICE arrests a three-time felon in Virginia raid.
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Mallory McMorrow, a progressive Democrat running for Senate, racked up $3,000 in unpaid water and sewer charges in Royal Oak, Michigan.
A House hearing turned chaotic as lawmakers reamed Fairfax County prosecutor Stephen Descano over alleged charge reductions in a child rape case.
The politics of corruption at the ICC and ICJ.
For years, conventional wisdom held that the suburban shopping mall was dying. Seph Laws's book Abandoned Malls, published in 2020, included photographs of more than 200 of them across the nation in various states of near-gothic decay. Anchor reta…
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
I’m not buying the narrative that a bludgeoning, weeks-long American bombing campaign has done negligible damage to Iran.
The FAA unveiled a workforce overhaul to tackle chronic air traffic controller shortages, excessive overtime and aging technology across U.S. airspace.
Online, the glittering statue of Trump has become a flash point. In real life, golfers seem less excited.
The improbable story of rock’s greatest live album.
Intercept journalist Austin Ahlman enters Nebraska's first Congressional district race as an independent, calling both candidates establishment.
The most reliable demographic statistics suggest we may go into global population decline before almost anyone predicted.
The F.B.I. director continues to come under scrutiny for mixing government business with dates, vacation and leisure time.
Bishop Robert Barron slams borderline communists in the Democratic Party, warning that the extreme leftward shift poses a danger to American society.
In Dante’s Inferno, the eighth circle of Hell is where fraudsters are punished for eternity.
Beijing has different interests to the US in the Iran war, which may preclude any breakthrough during Trump's visit.
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…
There was no major breakthrough in Beijing, but China pulled out all the stops for President Trump, with extravagant ceremonies and a state banquet.
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…
Republicans accused Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano of allowing people in the country illegally to get away with serious crimes.
CBC-funded TV producers using fake names are ambushing Canadians who take a positive view of their country—including an 82-year-old Ontario grandfather who invited the film crew into his home.
Instead of focusing on group membership, Bejan argues that we should focus on merit.
Critics denounced the highly unusual plan, which has yet to be finalized or approved, as a vast political slush fund financed by taxpayers.
If Trump cannot be convinced to observe civic propriety for its own sake, maybe he can be persuaded against setting fire to the GOP’s reputation.
If people with the ideas of Kamala Harris and Hakeem Jeffries gain power, the American system of constitutional governance will be done for.
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin told the RCP podcast on Thursday that Chinese leader Xi Jinping invoking the "Thucydides Trap" during meetings with President Trump is "not good history" and a sign of weakness.
In a demonstration of bipartisanship, GOP Sen. Rick Scott and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren are advocating a measure to permanently ban former lawmakers from lobbying.
Justice Diana Hagen’s resignation is the latest twist in Utah Republicans’ escalating campaign to remake the state supreme court.
The Trump administration has authorized a test program to see if the cannabis compound can ease some symptoms and reduce health care costs among older patients.
What is a Robertsism? It's a term I like to use to describe memorable quotes from Chief Justice John Roberts that infuriate the right and leave one wondering whether Roberts really believes what he is saying. For example, during Trump's first term…
The United States armed forces, with our Israeli allies, have devastated Iran’s regime, including its ballistic missile capabilities.
Despite the dangers, we must seize the gifts bequeathed by world-altering technologies, since these amount to life in unprecedented abundance.
Follow President Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
The tropical escape of northerners, and also of large birds.
Senator Bill Cassidy, targeted by President Trump, is walking a political tightrope as he battles other Republicans for the chance to seek a third term.
Somebody should stand up for federal law, state law, science, and human life. Tonight, only two justices of the Court were willing to do so.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
According to reports, President Xi Jinping did a little saber-rattling over the Republic of China on Taiwan with President Trump.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
While the British Medical Association now acknowledges that the Cass Review has been ‘vindicated,’ its Canadian counterparts still remain beholden to debunked activist slogans.
Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted the sentence of Ms. Peters, a former county clerk serving a nine-year sentence for her role in a plot to examine voting machines after the 2020 election.
The image of peer superpowers during President Trump’s visit displayed a dynamic that analysts say the Chinese have long sought and Americans had resisted.
‘This felt like the two great powers of the world deferring any major issues.’
It's hour three of doomscrolling on X, each post more unnerving than the last: charts predicting economic collapse, headlines of a failed assassination attempt, YouTube video thumbnails with the title "NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE."
Chinese officials are using a different transliterated character for the secretary of state's name, perhaps to allow him to visit without lifting the 2020 ban.
Investigating abuse is a duty. Laundering propaganda is not.
Why is interest in UFOs on the rise? No one is better positioned to answer that question than Diana Walsh Pasulka, whose book "American Cosmic" is an indispensable guide to contemporary interest in extraterrestrial life. This year, she has a new b…
It would be very difficult to make a great film from a source as flawed as Camus’s novel, but Ozon has managed to make a very good one.
Evolutionary psychology suggests an explanation for why so many people have found dating apps a frustrating experience.
As Trump pushes for a more Republican-friendly House map, more than half a dozen states are potential targets for mid-decade tweaks to congressional boundaries.
At a time of British establishment panic over populism, it is worth asking whether the definition of extremism needs tweaking.
The Trump-Xi summit emphasized stability. But China’s recruitment of foreign agents has fueled suspicion of Chinese Americans.
It's not poverty that drives men to violence, but the experience of losing status.