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As with many other immigrants who choose to become Americans, my path to US citizenship was a long and difficult one. I was born in Chennai, India, and was raised in India, Indonesia, and Singapore. My parents believed deeply in the importance of …
Our culture emphasizes hospitality, and that friendliness is a Yankee glory to be reveled in.
We must not understand ourselves as fighting against a procedure, but rather, for human beings.
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.
Universal health care, taxing the wealthy and opposition to military aid to Israel are among the movement’s key tenets.
In a late-night vote aimed at mollifying the president, Senate Republicans rejected a resolution directing him to end the war against Iran, a day after a bipartisan rebuke.
The 6-3 decision clears the way for the Trump administration to resume allowing federal agents at the border to turn back asylum seekers before they enter.
Tom Cruise is so determined to entertain big-screen audiences that now every single film release of his is billed as an “event.”
Air-conditioning saves lives.
The Democratic Socialists of America won with support outside their usual base. Winning outside New York may be a different challenge.
A policy of turning back asylum seekers at the border was rescinded in 2021, but the Trump administration wants the flexibility to reinstate it as a tool for border control.
A reform-minded Democrat, he served on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee and offered a pragmatic mix of progressive legislation and conservative fiscal philosophy.
Despite the biggest supply shock in history, the oil market turned out to be significantly more flexible than most experts anticipated.
Bruce Blakeman warns the Democratic Party has veered too far left, predicting traditional Democrats will increasingly vote Republican in elections.
The president posted on social media that the signing was off until the Senate passes his election integrity bill. It is unclear whether he intends to kill the housing bill.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, NYC congressional primary winner, reportedly founded a Columbia group that called for total eradication of Western civilization.
Florida GOP congressional candidate Scott Singer says New York's socialist primary wins will drive more people and businesses to flee the city.
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.
The congressman, who has been absent from Washington since March, answered the door of his home on Wednesday evening. He was wearing a suit and tie.
In a trial set to begin June 24, California's Attorney General Rob Bonta is asking a court to do something that should alarm every American, regardless of where they stand on abortion: punish nonprofit organizations with ruinous fines for speaking…
Right now, the indicators still seem to point toward a House controlled by Democrats, but by a smaller margin than was originally thought.
Postmaster General David Steiner says USPS would not mail ballots from states that refuse to share absentee voter list with the federal government.
Vandals target the National Mall with blood-written messages on the Washington Monument, 8647 markings, and razor-blade cuts to the Reflecting Pool.
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…
Can we please stop killing children and hurting women?
The 21st Century Road to Housing Act is bipartisan legislation aimed at the public’s top concern: affordability.
Trump ignored Clausewitz, and disaster ensued.
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.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, said the program was aimed at counteracting potential efforts by the Trump administration to manipulate elections.
The settlement addresses the dumping of PFAS “forever chemicals,” which have been linked to cancer and other risks, by Chemours in several states.
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.
Bernie Sanders and the DSA warn Democrats after socialist candidates swept New York City's Tuesday elections, claiming a democratic socialist mandate.
After democratic socialists captured two House primaries and several state legislative contests in New York, the group’s leaders mulled how to use their expanding influence.
There’s some belated grumbling in Democratic ranks about the socialist usurpers. But the party long ago missed its chance to bar the door.
Let’s go back to pen and paper.
Congress introduced legislation this month allowing seriously ill patients to access select treatments their physicians would prescribe - without FDA approval.
The court’s decision is likely to determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against Bayer, which manufactures the weedkiller, over similar claims.
Supreme Court rules migrants turned away at the border cannot apply for asylum and blocks TPS recipients from judicial relief in two major decisions.
The court handed President Trump victories in his push to rescind deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people and turn away migrants at the southern border.
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Being the mayor of New York is an enormous task for anyone, let alone a 34-year-old. But Zohran Mamdani's ambitions seem to go beyond leading the Big Apple. He wants to help remake the national Democratic Party.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Arab Gulf leaders to reassure them that America isn’t cutting them out of negotiations with Tehran.
Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayor contest last year, and two candidates he and the Democratic Socialists of America backed have now won U.S. House primaries.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against Hawaii in Wolford v. Lopez, delivering a major victory for concealed carry holders in the blue state.
Fraud draws down more than taxpayer money. It draws down trust, the basic currency of the safety net. A program endures only so long as the public believes resources are going where they should-that benefits reach the people who qualify and no one…
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a first-time candidate who unseated a House Democrat, has spent years advocating for Palestinians.
No moral panic is complete without its superstitions.
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…
Philosopher Benedict Beckeld speaks with Zoe Sankey about oikophobia, the decline of the West, Islam's incompatibility with Western values, and why civilisations at the height of their power sow the seeds of their own undoing.
The president seethed at Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul after the war powers resolution passed, saying: “I will get it done, one way or the other.”
The old fight was labour versus capital. The real fight now is between those who create value and those who administer it, and Australia's new budget has picked the wrong side.
Keir Starmer is just the latest victim of a political reality created by Brexit—one that has, counterintuitively, turned Britain into a European country.
Whoever figures out how to mobilize the folks fed-up with the current state of the city can make New York City great again.
Atwo-week, 50-state fair on the National Mall kicked off Wednesday night with music, fair food, and Air Force flyovers. The crowd of roughly 1,000 sat in folding chairs or stood on a portion of the Mall between the Washington Monument and the U.S.…
There's vastly too much hand-wringing over President Trump's diplomacy and potential dealmaking with Iran, and it's coming from friends and foes alike.
The request mostly includes money for the Pentagon, with $67 billion going toward replenishing the military’s stocks of munitions and the cost of sending so many forces to the Middle East.
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The data argue against rejoining the EU.
Democratic socialist candidates won key races in New York, while more establishment candidates prevailed in other contests.
The former first lady’s cataractous view from the East Wing.
In his panic-stricken effort to disentangle America from the Middle Eastern mess, Trump now appears to be falling into line with Tehran’s wishes.
Tuesday’s primary victories for a slate of leftist candidates endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani foretell bigger battles for a Democratic Party trying to win back power nationally.
"This bill is a major step toward reducing housing costs for millions of American families, and Donald Trump just doesn't care," Elizabeth Warren told HuffPost.
Not to be melodramatic, but I really believe the future of American democracy has been hanging in the balance the past few years.
The ruling rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to change federal election procedures through an executive order.
Three left-wing hopefuls backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their races, including two who unseated incumbents.
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.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Athletes have every right to reject Pride symbols that—as activists themselves loudly insist—signify an increasingly radicalised set of ‘queer’ political demands.
A tribute to David Hockney (1937–2026).
Judge Evelyn Padin ruled the Justice Department’s lawsuit was flawed because it did not also challenge a state directive limiting local cooperation with federal immigration agents.
Pro-lifers should rightly celebrate Dobbs, but we need to be clear-eyed about the challenges we face in the future.
A new Reagan Institute poll finds 73% of Americans, including 61% of MAGA Republicans, say keeping the U.S. in NATO is important to national security.
House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet with Trump in an effort to break the impasse as GOP infighting stalls key legislation ahead of the August recess deadline.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna leads conservatives vowing to block all House floor votes until Republicans pass the SAVE America Act.
Sen. Alan Armstrong introduces the American Energy and Mineral Infrastructure Act of 2026, aiming to reform permitting and boost U.S. energy production.
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.
Gen. Christopher Donahue, seen as a top warfighter, is the latest apparent casualty in a purge of senior military leaders by the Trump administration.