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Ms. Zacharia is a conservative commentator who briefly worked at the Department of Homeland Security. She succeeds Karoline Leavitt.
Yes, animosity toward Israel from right and left poses a threat. But the nation emerged from the war stronger, richer, and more regionally integrated.
Trump called James Talarico "MISSING IN ACTION" as the Texas Democrat's nearly two-week campaign trail absence sparks concerns about losing momentum.
Many people are terrified of dementia, so I suspect the proponents of euthanasia believe it will be a lighter lift.
Samuel A. Alito Jr., who has often been in the shadow of other conservative justices, has taken on new prominence as a champion for the president’s policies.
We have a deep reservoir of assets, but struggle to turn small companies into global success stories. Innovation needs to be at the heart of government policy, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
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.
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What happened under the Trump administration this week that you may have missed.
JD Vance spins a tale about ‘indentured servants’ filling the jobs of laid-off Americans, entirely unsupported by facts.
Republicans are suddenly racing to defend a seat in Kansas, where Democrats are trying to win a Senate race for the first time in nearly a century.
The ancients understood that education was vital to character formation.
The lawmakers said the case “raised questions about the Title IX process and discipline imposed by Cornell University.”
Catherine Liu’s new book makes some valuable points, but it fundamentally misunderstands the trauma culture it critiques.
Amid concerns that political insiders might use privileged knowledge to make money, there’s a new wave of efforts to regulate the platforms.
Do Europeans fully grasp what the fall of Ukraine would mean for the rest of the continent?
A Democrat-controlled Congress would give the same party power to do what it's done in the past: investigate and harass its opponents.
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…
Slashing personal attacks dominated the first televised face-off between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate, and former Representative Mike Rogers, his Republican rival.
Correspondence suggests that Ms. Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece and former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., asked a G.O.P. donor to pay off her credit card.
‘I don’t think it’s good for me to scream and shout at a chatbot . . . I don’t think that’s good for my soul.’
The president might be eager to brag about his perceived magnanimity, but he's asking us to forget what we all saw with our own eyes.
A GOP ad used a photo of Republican Myron Lizer instead of Democrat Jonathan Nez. Nez is challenging Rep. Eli Crane (R-Arizona).
Rabbi Daniel Lapin responds to Robert Lynch's essay on masturbation.
Polls show Trump losing support among his base and voters focused on Senate control and issues.
California's Prop 39 voter ID ballot guide draws backlash online for its politically charged language, including a reference to "MAGA billionaires."
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.
Polling and the work of prognosticators like the Cook Political Report suggest Democrats are likely to take back the House in November.
Marco Rubio announced the Trump administration will soon freeze ICC assets and bar all U.S. transactions with the International Criminal Court.
Jim Jordan's committee names illegal immigrants accused of violent crimes whose ICE detainers were allegedly ignored in both Denver and Boulder.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Bloomington police say young Somali American gang members come from families with money, but investigators can't explain what drives the violence.
Of course, if he wanted to, JD Vance could define socialism. He just doesn’t.
U.S. officials announced the new, sweeping punishments just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize committee gave its annual honor to a former court judge.
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.
The vice president also cast doubt on whether the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the 2009 Fort Hood gunman, would go forward as Pentagon officials have planned.
The hack left the nation’s premier law enforcement agency racing to respond as both the victim and the investigator of a murky group that threatened to expose agents’ personal information.
Likely voters prefer Jackson on several key issues, but they favor Collins’s ability to steer federal dollars to the state.
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.
Democrats already showed us what they'd do.
FBI Director Kash Patel says agents arrested a suspected ShinyHunters co-conspirator tied to the FBIjobs.gov data breach and third-party vendor hack.
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.
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.
To rediscover the university’s true purpose, we must return to our core practice of making distinctions.
The amount is small compared with U.S. demand, but the deal aligns the U.S. with Russia and against Ukraine’s efforts to bomb Russian refineries.
Every now and then, there is a candidate who is so unsuited for the Senate and the nation that it would be a disservice not to defeat him. In 2026, one could argue that that candidate is Abdul el Sayed, who is defending a Democratic seat in Michigan.
The matchup will test the strength of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing — and the congresswoman’s potential 2028 chances — in a battleground state.
A livestreamed execution would be a new low of the modern age.
The $5 million investment from the main super PAC for Senate Democrats is a sign that party leaders see a path to winning in another red state as the political environment worsens for Republicans.
South Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Annie Andrews claims she was misrepresented on transgender sports after Trump dubbed her "Annie Trannie."
A commission that will report to the president will assess the mortgage fraud allegations against her and consider evidence from a hearing next month.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Katie Zacharia has been offered a job as the next White House Press Secretary
Not even Mayor Mamdani is safe.
President Donald Trump claimed that GOP U.S. Senate candidate former Rep. Mike Rogers "completely obliterated" Abdul El-Sayed in a debate.
President Trump said Russia had agreed to ship potentially millions of tons of diesel fuel in the coming months. But Russia has an ongoing ban on exporting diesel.
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.
Even mothers were not exempt in a fierce debate in the race for a critical U.S. Senate seat.
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…
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.
Katie Zacharia replaces Karoline Leavitt, who departed the White House in August after giving birth to her second child.
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Raised in a blue-collar Pennsylvania town, Mike Ditka earned a scholarship to Pitt and became "Da Coach" in Chicago. His family called him "the heart of our family" in announcing his death at 86.
It is absurd to suggest that a restriction or temporary inaccessibility amounts to a ‘ban.’
Letitia James went silent for several seconds when asked to name a former AG she admired during the Thursday New York Attorney General debate.
President Donald Trump's new White House committee will hear mortgage fraud allegations against Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook in a closed hearing.
The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence.
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.
As Justice Thomas told Cruz, If you collapse at the end of this, you've lived a noble life.
The departure of U.S. bombers from Britain may be a final warning to European leaders with no interest in fighting back against enemies of the West, writes Douglas Murray.
The county is home to Arlington National Cemetery, the military gravesite that is central to the legal battle over the planned arch.
U.S. Army regulations state, regarding military executions, ‘no person under the age of 18 shall witness the execution.’
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The party is torn between securing majorities and seeking game-changing wins.
The death of human beings is not for show. Is this for our entertainment?
Virginia's 5th congressional district isn't a natural fit for Democrats. But Tom Perriello is polling surprisingly well right now.
At least for one night, the Republican candidate seemed to have successfully transformed the debate into a referendum on El-Sayed’s judgment and ideology.
There is no better reflection of the purely transactional nature of Donald Trump's politics than his love for buying Americans' affections with cold hard cash.
Aaron Ford voted to pardon or reduce sentences for 30 convicted murderers, records show, as he campaigns to unseat Gov. Joe Lombardo in Nevada.
Some G.O.P. members of Congress said that broadcasting the execution of the Fort Hood shooter was inappropriate, though others gleefully applauded it.
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…