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Rabbi Daniel Lapin responds to Robert Lynch's essay on masturbation.
Documents obtained by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley shows Smith and his cronies spying on journalists as well as lawmakers.
An NGDP rule would limit the Fed’s discretion in return for simplicity, predictability, and a much lower danger of catastrophic monetary mistakes.
Silicon Valley giant Anduril plans to invest $3.7 billion building a massive Baltimore shipyard to break Virginia-class submarine bottlenecks.
A conversation with Hoover Institution economist Joshua Rauh.
Sen. Susan Collins represents an exceptional element in American politics: a true moderate who has outlasted her opponents and angered both political extremes in an increasingly partisan environment. Enough voters who otherwise support Democrats r…
Vivek Ramaswamy wants to carry Ohio, but on Saturday he struggled to carry one young Ohioan.
Julian Epstein, a former top Democratic official, compared the FBI's tracking of Melania Trump, Barron Trump and Susie Wiles to Nixonian tactics.
We start the week with a hilarious essay from Julie Bindel, who recounts her days as a feminist activist in 1980s Britain. Explaining that hypochondria and performative disability are nothing new in these circles, Bindel puts the fragility of toda…
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Latin America is turning right, and it's a vindication for President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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…
In her bid for a sixth term representing Maine, Susan Collins has been beset by President Donald Trump weighing her down with constant controversy.
A plea hearing revealed a far larger pattern of fraud against the government, while keeping some key secrets still hidden.
Democratic socialists won't have the power that the Freedom Caucus has in the House.
Marshall Billingslea warns the Irkutsk researcher's death could involve antibiotic-resistant plague engineered under the Soviet bioweapons program.
Keeping rates artificially low leads to more economic distortion.
Democratic challenger Gina Hinojosa has ramped up her fundraising.
Donations from around the country have poured into an obscure Texas campaign.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews AI expert Gary Marcus about the possibility that a rogue artificial intelligence will turn us all into paper clips.
The idea of consecrated women being malevolent hypocrites is too sensational for the media to resist.
Democratic Senate candidates have generally out-raised Republicans, but are struggling to match outside spending from Trump-affiliated groups.
Joe Romm was a prolific writer who never hesitated to take on climate change deniers and the fossil-fuel industry — or even ostensible allies.
Populist political coalitions are forming, changing, fracturing.
Sen. Steve Daines warns that losing the Senate could block Trump's Supreme Court nominees, urging disgruntled Republicans to rally behind candidates.
Joe Biden's limited campaign trail presence contrasts sharply with Barack Obama and Kamala Harris as Democrats fight for midterm majorities.
FBI agents seized gold bars, cash and luxury watches this year at the home of David J. Rush, according to an affidavit.
The impressive reflexes of Usha Vance were on display Monday.
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…
President Donald Trump declares that the United States is "willing to help" amid the scare regarding the death of a person who worked at an anti-plague facility in Russia.
Politics of the Day
John Updike, Alice Hoffman, and the golden age of “witch lit.”
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
Treasury's "Do Not Pay" program screened over 1.1 billion payments worth $3.7 trillion, catching 13,500 improper payments to deceased people.
In a recent speech to American academics, a Quillette editor explained how Canadians convinced themselves that 215 child corpses had been discovered in an old apple orchard.
With less money than G.O.P., Democrats are torn over where to spend in the final weeks. The party is making its biggest move in years against one of G.O.P.’s biggest blue-district survivors.
Increased demand for polling has strained call centers that conduct surveys, squeezed capacity and complicated the task of getting accurate reads on public opinion, according to pollsters.
Catherine Liu’s new book makes some valuable points, but it fundamentally misunderstands the trauma culture it critiques.
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.
Gold demand from AI infrastructure and semiconductors is climbing even as prices hit historic highs, and tech firms aren't switching to cheaper metals.
There is considerable admiration for the former vice president, but also some reservations if she runs again.
I am confident, in any event, that the Trump decade, far from winding down, is on the brink of its greatest fulfillments
To rediscover the university’s true purpose, we must return to our core practice of making distinctions.
It’s time for college administrators to forget about creating artificial diversity and focus on finding the best students.
President Trump’s comments caused an uproar from members of both parties. A White House official said he was taken out of context.
Nikole Hannah-Jones put racial solidarity ahead of her daughter’s education. Her daughter—and plenty of black parents—saw the mistake more clearly than she did.
MAGA needs to maintain its grip on the GOP after Donald Trump - and the 37th president is key
Republicans are on defense in governor and state legislative races.
National Republicans are spending big in the Alaska Senate race to protect Sen. Dan Sullivan against Democratic former congresswoman Mary Peltola.
As the former UBC professor exacts apologies and legal settlements from his accusers, Brad Cran offers a personal account of the collateral damage that the decade-long saga inflicted on the Canadian literary community.
A 22-year-old from London was the seventh person to be arrested by the counterterrorism police investigating an incident at R.A.F. Fairford last month.
First on Fox, a blue city in battleground Georgia faces H-1B visa fraud allegations as Rep. Rich McCormick urges a Trump administration probe.
Lawyers for the former Olympian David Hearn accused prosecutors of ignoring their own evidence to indict him and then providing “blatantly false” information about what they knew when.
There is no reason that American communities should be subjected to shootings committed by gangs from third-world countries.
We keep getting wake-up calls about surrogacy.
The civil rights organization is stepping up efforts in response to President Donald Trump’s push to change voting rules.
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.
Through American history, cultural change precedes political change.
Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor repeatedly questioned Supreme Court jurisdiction in Suncor v. Boulder, signaling a possible off-ramp.
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman’s account of the 7 October massacre and its aftermath is a triumph of dogged reporting and shrewd analysis.
ICE agents were in Minneapolis to maintain law and order, not to target people by race or national origin. Even a caring U.S. citizen has no right to interfere, just as no one has the right to remain in America unlawfully.
A crusade against the ichorous.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Scientists are as prone as anyone else to groupthink, and stifling dissent often produces disaster.
New York Times columnist Michelle Cottle blamed Trump for the culture behind an alleged Cornell University gang rape that occurred under Biden.
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French President Emmanuel Macron called American free speech "the opposite of free speech" as student protests and school fires sweep across France.
Democrats are surging in Republican states but have some problems in their own strongholds.
Inflation reallocates purchasing power to a minority of Americans who drive spending.
Gov. Wes Moore, who has been a persistent critic of the president, will not participate in Tuesday’s announcement of a $6.6 billion investment.
It might have been an entirely different presidency if Republicans treated Trump like any other president.
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
That window probably would be the last chance for President Donald Trump to get a conservative successor to the 76-year-old justice confirmed by the Senate if Democrats take the upper chamber.
Officials in California condemned the president's comments as “dangerous” after he told a Nebraska rally the war in Iran was a “small price to pay for keeping the world safe.”
The deal is designed to demonstrate that President Trump is focused on one of his main campaign pledges: bringing back manufacturing jobs.
Municipalities all across the country are making innovative investments in community safety departments-and it's starting to pay off.
It takes a long time to build new nuclear plants. So, some U.S. companies are looking to get more electricity out of reactors that already exist.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Former Human Rights Watch senior editor Danielle Haas on how NGO reports get made, what happens to staff who dissent, and why she wants outside oversight.
Chelsea Follett's new history shows how wretched life was before the industrial revolution, but our escape from it began long before the steam engine.