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After the midterms, traditional conservatives will gather to forge a new path forward.
The Texas attorney general and GOP Senate nominee received contributions from parties in cases he was involved in, some predating his current competitive race.
James Talarico's campaign provided security footage to debunk the Ohio rehab rumor, but critics ask why the evidence wasn't released sooner.
Cook Political Report changed Alaska's governor race rating from toss-up to lean Democrat; and Nebraska, Vermont and Oklahoma governor's races from solid Republican to likely Republican.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Jeanine Pirro says her office is investigating Ilhan Omar's financial disclosures after business valuations tied to her husband surged dramatically.
A senator without committees is like a pilot without a plane. What’s the point?
Adults who do not have children are taking over Disneyland, purchasing the majority of ToysRUs products, and sleeping with stuffed bears, writes Kat Rosenfield. Why can't they put childish things away?
Last night in the heartland town of Carmel, Ind., we were pleased to present the Liberty Fund Prize for Advancing Economic Freedom.
Extreme weather is driving up insurance rates, impacting races from California to the nation’s central Tornado Alley.
I find it almost impossible to believe that this was a restraint failure. But the details are certainly peculiar.
High costs have opened a divide between Trump, who spoke in Ohio on Monday night, and some who voted for him. His support for data centers has widened that gap.
No economy can transcend the need for human contributions.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided Rep. Ilhan Omar's D.C. home, igniting fierce partisan debate over immigration fraud and weaponization.
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Grand Slam champions take home identical prizes, but the men must win 50 percent more sets to get there.
The sweeping bill would ban federal border wall funding, close Guantanamo Bay and dismantle Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
With Republicans all but writing off their chances of winning Senate races in states such as North Carolina and Georgia, Alaska has become a crucial battleground this fall.
F.B.I. investigators worked with the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to dismantle so-called laptop farms that steal American identities to earn cash for Pyongyang.
President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.
The first 911 call from inside the prison was made at 8:40 p.m. It took about 30 minutes to verify its authenticity.
Migration entrenches itself and remakes recipient societies in indelible ways.
American gun owners no longer need to register their short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors.
To rediscover the university’s true purpose, we must return to our core practice of making distinctions.
Ms. Guilfoyle was asked to quit by the White House after a string of damaging reports, including that she had asked a Republican donor to pay off a credit card.
Kelly Johnson’s counseling services are the centerpiece of an organization that does not disclose its donors.
Trump's diesel-deal feud with Zelensky obscures a more important effort.
Americans blast Pete Hegseth's plan to livestream convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan's firing squad execution as "absolutely absurd" and dangerous.
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.
Instead of promoting peace, this prize risks rewarding Hamas's civilian-shield tactics. More innocents will die, not fewer.
AI veteran Jerry Kaplan tells Claire Lehmann why he thinks the doomers are wrong, what the rogue-agent incidents did and didn’t show, and where real risks lie.
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.
Belgium’s latest figures show how widely euthanasia has become accepted as an answer to suffering.
Guilfoyle said the role has been “the honor of a lifetime.” She has faced allegations she asked a political donor for $100,000 to pay her personal American Express bill.
A nonprofit watchdog group sued the Department of Government Efficiency, asserting that it should be subject to federal Freedom of Information Act discovery requests.
An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Troy Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor for running the ad in Oregon.
As in 1992, Democrats are poised to win big based on mistaken perceptions that times are difficult.
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…
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…
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The high court’s acceptance of the case means it will probably be argued early next year.
President Trump made the remark in response to a question about the U.S. ambassador to Greece, who faces accusations that she asked a G.O.P. donor to pay off her credit card.
For all the talk of a rupture between progressive and moderate factions in the Democratic Party, it's not showing up in the critical decisions made about where to invest campaign dollars.
Kimberly Guilfoyle faces allegations of a $100,000 payment request, diplomatic misconduct and hostile workplace claims at the U.S. Embassy in Greece.
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…
Between 1991 and 2025, the percentage of high school students who reported ever having sexual intercourse fell from 54.1 percent to 28.5 percent.
Democrats' generic ballot lead is wider than the 2018 blue wave, pushing the House forecast toward a potential 237-seat Democratic majority.
Ancient DNA has given historians a new archive, and in two decades it has settled long-running arguments about who migrated, who conquered, and who replaced whom.
Just what the world needed: a new podcast featuring Hillary Clinton.
Like so many other schools, its leaders apparently refuse to hire anyone who isn’t a dedicated leftist.
CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin leads a 12-day China tour promoting "revolutionary history" and "socialist development" with ties to Singham.
Across the country, candidates are trying to burnish their bipartisan bona fides.
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.
Do Europeans fully grasp what the fall of Ukraine would mean for the rest of the continent?
Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson did not attend a debate, leaving Democratic rival Keisha Lance Bottoms next to an empty podium at the event.
House Republicans face growing pressure as Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. pulls planned spending from Tom Kean and Marianette Miller-Meeks' districts.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
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.
Essays in the New Yorker, the NYRB, and the Atlantic make one worry about the kind of nation they might urge the United States to become.
During a four-hour hearing, a federal judge demanded answers from the Trump administration about who authorized the removal of hundreds of trees at the East Potomac Golf Links.
It has the makings of political intimidation, say some legal experts.
The ruling barred major modifications at the D.C. course while a federal judge seeks testimony from Interior Department officials about whether they ignored a court order.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The World Health Organization says it has ‘not identified evidence of ongoing transmission’ from the dead plague researcher in Irkutsk, Russia.
The weekly podcast, “High Stakes,” will aim to dissect the election and its aftermath, Vox Media said.
When the Democrats take back Congress, we need an agenda to return public functions to government and reverse decades of privatization.
New York Attorney General Letitia James faces recusal demands in the Cornell 7 case after publicly expressing support for Jane Doe before the probe.
President Donald Trump claimed Katie Zacharia is an “attorney,” but her bar credentials are unclear.
There are signs of desperation in the Trump administration's new attack on the congresswoman.
Despite her professed atheism, Kathryn Paige Harden insists on making quasi-religious claims about free will and moral responsibility.
The Michigan Democratic Senate candidate’s “AI Under Control” proposal would freeze development of powerful artificial-intelligence systems and data centers.
The president is contradicted, not by his opponents on the left, but by officials in his own administration — to say nothing of common sense.
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.
They must have dissipated at exactly the moment Biden left office.
Former Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Ohio, indicated to the Columbus Dispatch that he would not support impeaching Trump
Two major Republican super PACs are said to be withdrawing cash from the races of the incumbent Representatives Thomas H. Kean Jr. of New Jersey and Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa in an effort to triage the midterm map.
A bipartisan bill could lower electricity costs and speed the green energy transition by targeting utilities.
Candidates in 2026 are responding to an electorate that's ready to abolish ICE, tax the billionaire class, and free Palestine.
The Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas spent nine days off the trail with what he and his campaign said was a bad case of the flu. His opponents fueled rumors, including one that spread widely before it was debunked.
This week in Athens, standing in front of the Parthenon, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a remarkable speech.