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A college student's complaint about a $20 burrito sparked a fierce GOP debate on affordability, even drawing in JD Vance and Rep. Dan Crenshaw.
Sen. Katie Britt's bill targets a 2001 Supreme Court loophole allowing detained illegal immigrants to be released after six months if no country accepts them.
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…
The Patriot Games now have an official schedule, with events Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
These officials oversee or help administer elections in counties across the nation where competitive House and Senate races will determine control of Congress.
One lawmaker faces domestic abuse allegations; another, allegations of inappropriate behavior toward female staffers.
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.
Any way you look at the Israeli genocide charge, it is a lie, as Michael Mandelbaum so thoughtfully and effectively makes clear.
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.
The development comes as a Senate committee prepares to vote Thursday on whether to hold Dr. Anthony S. Fauci in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at a hearing.
After Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth, a Senate committee takes action, after obtaining a copy of his phone
'Hondurasgate' exposed a plan to boost far-right American puppets across the Western Hemisphere.
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.
Dr. Anthony Fauci had refused to answer questions at a hearing last week, invoking the Fifth Amendment. Republicans argued he wasn’t entitled to that protection because he had a presidential pardon.
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.
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.
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.
The longtime infectious-disease scientist refused to answer questions from committee members at a hearing last week.
In the chaotic Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor, Hong has had the ‘Mao was too moderate’ lane all to herself.
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’
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If the court approves the request for a referendum, it could raise questions about whether Tuesday’s primary winners under the new map are the official nominees.
Ken Paxton says he's confident Texans will reject James Talarico once they learn about his record on border security, energy and social issues.
The county attorney asked Gov. Greg Abbott to authorize the extradition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro on charges of assault.
The vice president has dispensed with the decorum and restraint of his predecessors to directly take on opponents and journalists on social media with sometimes profane and often personal jabs.
Sen. Mitch McConnell has been discharged from a rehabilitation facility and will continue recovering at home after a June fall in Kentucky.
Jeff Clark alleges the FBI deliberately misspelled its Trump-Russia probe name "Oxferd C0mma," using a zero to foil FOIA requests and hide records.
Virginia will ask the Supreme Court to hear a dispute over a seven-character license plate message.
Reining in federal spending was never going to be so easy.
Base Co. LTD was fighting a trade case before the Commerce Department at the time of the payment.
63 percent say their personal finances are either good or excellent. 34 percent say that the economy is good or excellent. What gives?
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
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.
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.
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.
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 Senate faces a daunting list, including Todd Blanche's confirmation, government funding, the SAVE America Act and college sports NIL regulation.
Nobody tell the boss.
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 percentage of high-ranking officer nominations going to women is currently at its lowest level in over two decades.
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.
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.
Representative Andy Ogles received President Trump’s endorsement, but his challenger, Charlie Hatcher, a former state agriculture commissioner, has the backing of Gov. Bill Lee.
An Ethics Committee report detailed “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct” by the North Carolina Republican toward two young female staffers.
Don't listen to what the Left is saying or even Donald Trump about Iran, says Victor Davis Hanson. What is actually happening in and to Iran?
The Kentucky Republican has been absent from Congress for nearly two months after a health episode. He said he would continue recovering from home.
Lars von Trier’s harrowing but resplendent story of suffering and grace turns thirty this year.
As usual, the sneering back-and-forth on X about the cost of a Mexican-food lunch is conflating multiple issues.
Sen. Jon Husted joined Sen. Bernie Moreno, Miller’s former father-in-law, in calling for the embattled congressman to step aside.
The evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
It’s the money supply. It’s always been the money supply.
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.
GOP lawmakers demand financial records from UAW, United Steelworkers, SMART-TD, BLET and BMWED over alleged political spending and lavish perks.
Men are quietly leaving the workforce—not for lack of jobs, but for lack of purpose.
The Trump administration announced the award after allowing the previous contract with a longtime legal provider to expire.
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In 1983, before climate anxiety became injected into the American bloodstream by Washington, D.C. consultants, Iowa passed the nation's first Renewable Portfolio Standard. It wasn't driven by ideology - it was pro-agriculture and smart market-hedg…
If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November.
The DCCC is targeting 12 additional deep-red House districts, including seats held by Lauren Boebert and Mike Lawler, as Democrats eye midterm flips.
Students need to learn how to think and write independently while also developing the judgment to use artificial intelligence effectively.
Sen. Rick Scott's Trade Deficit Elimination Act would give Trump new congressional authority to impose tariffs on countries with trade deficits.
Public confidence in the Supreme Court has reached a record low.
Homer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar.
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.
Sen. Rand Paul says he plans to send a criminal contempt referral directly to the Department of Justice after Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Debra Soh, author of ‘Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy,’ about neuroscience, hypergamy, elephant seals, politicised sex research, the perils of polyamory, and the sex-repellent…
One moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed can no more renounce his association with his Bolshevist booster than he can shed his own views.
Mike Johnson warns Democrats are heading toward communism as DSA-backed candidates like Abdul El-Sayed topple establishment figures in key races.
A brutal reminder of the consequences of Ukraine’s lack of anti-ballistic interceptors.
Whether a model is open or closed, the more important distinction is whether it was built through innovation or through theft.
Making patients brain-dead on purpose seems little different than actively killing them.
While administration officials say the changes will save money by lifting onerous requirements, advocates fear the anti-poverty program will be gutted.
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…
The Kentucky Republican has been absent from the Senate since he was hospitalized June 14 following a fall at home.
Artists increasingly insist that their work and their politics are indivisible. They should not be surprised when the institutions that fund them agree.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The longtime culture warrior is now talking about affordability and complaining about the economy.
Frank Miller’s valuable new memoir explores the creative life of one of America’s most gifted writers and artists.