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One prominent Texas Republican predicts disaster at the polls if his party doesn't take a harder stand against data centers.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
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The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
James Carville's rage erupted after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries met with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, calling Trump allies felons and traitors on his podcast.
U.S. Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro called the World War II Memorial vandalism a "despicable attack" after Melissa Farris was formally indicted on two federal counts.
Leslie Poles Hartley famously dubbed the past a foreign country. This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be one too. My annual visit to...
Maine's U.S. Senate candidate poses the strongest challenge to Susan Collins of her career.
By Cory Franklin August 28th, 2026 At the legendary South Loop delicatessen, Manny's, every stratum of Chicagoan comes to enjoy the delicious corned beef sandwiches. They eat elbow to elbow - blue collar workers, professionals, journalists, cops, …
The assistance, which helps pay for basic needs such as housing and food, would nearly double under a new policy.
His obsession with remaking Washington might hurt his party politically.
In today’s Martin Center article, Christopher Schilling explains that, though North Carolina “requires Holocaust education for public school students,” there is no such requirement for…
In his Jackson Hole speech, the Fed chair did everything but say it out loud.
Mr. Yiannopoulos, a prominent early supporter of President Trump, was detained at the New Orleans airport. The Trump administration publicized his arrest and shared a mug shot.
The clash comes as another top Republican declared Hochul 'doesn't give a s— about public safety'
The top-performing messages we tested have a simple formula. They focus on Americans' day-to-day struggles to pay for rent and groceries, and the widespread frustration with prices that rise faster than working-class wages.
The high court could decide to hear the case in the term that begins in October.
A Fourth Circuit panel ordered the case to be dismissed, citing a new Supreme Court ruling limiting the ability of foreign citizens to sue in U.S. court.
After the Supreme Court threw out the injunction against Trump’s executive order on noncitizen mail-in ballots, you might have thought the case was over.
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…
They don’t make a dime, wreck their car, and end up in jail.
The ruling was a win for Stanford’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and it followed another court victory for students targeted by the Trump administration last year.
Frank Gaffney warns the red-green alliance between radical Islamists and far-left socialists shares a goal of destroying America's constitutional system.
The state is asking a court to reverse a Trump administration agreement and reinstate a planned offshore wind farm.
A deregulation plan for meat-packing goes from Glenn Beck’s mouth to Trump’s social media.
President Donald Trump spoke with astronauts aboard the International Space Station from NASA's Johnson Space Center, joking he wouldn't travel to space.
The Tohono O'odham Nation claims masked CBP agents blocked tribal police as border wall contractors drilled on their sacred Native American land.
Given the economic pressures on the regime, something has to give.
The congresswoman, who lost the primary Senate race to state Rep. James Talarico, did not mention him by name.
With just over nine weeks remaining before the midterm elections, Republicans face a difficult political environment as they seek to retain their majorities in the House and Senate.
A new Echelon Insights poll raises the question: just how inevitable is this menacing Blue Wave?
Abdul El-Sayed's campaign posted a doctored White House image replacing Melania Trump's name with Natalie Harp's during the Lake Ontario renaming debate.
David Maywald on the female wage premium, the rites of passage boys no longer have, and why the science on sex differences keeps losing to ideology.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
A U.S.-based Australian Rules Football league allows trans-identified men to play on women’s teams. When one turned out to be a convicted sex criminal, no one wanted to talk about it.
President Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew, which took a journey around the moon.
Another pointless foot-stamping gesture from a president incompetently locked into several simultaneous tire fires of his own making.
President Trump signed an executive order Friday creating the U.S. Space Academy aimed at training students to enter the U.S. Space Force and serve the nation's growing space industry.
A county coroner said that the pathologist who examined a newborn who tested positive for measles did not believe the virus played a role in the baby’s death.
Arizona State University gave 432 illegal immigrants in-state tuition in Fall 2025, totaling $10.5 million in reduced costs, the Justice Department alleges.
Greg Abbott ordered Texas agencies to pause funding for Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate readers as cities cancel contracts over privacy.
In 2009, a grassroots revolt against bailouts, bureaucratic overreach, and a bipartisan Washington consensus was met-within a few short years-by a coordinated squeeze from four directions at once. The squeezers included the Democrat Party and Obam…
The Rose City Antifa and Jane's Revenge websites went dark after the State Department designated their tech provider, A/I Collective, a global terrorist.
The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.
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Treat a warming planet as an engineering problem rather than a moral failing, and it starts to look solvable.
We should worry about the perverse incentives created by elevating a self-killer and punishing his enemies.
Keisha Lance Bottoms is sponsoring a Halloween event featuring drag shows, and her record on gender policy and the Riley Gaines Act faces scrutiny.
The president has argued that the news organization sought to undermine his 2024 presidential campaign by disparaging his reputation as a businessman. The Times has moved to dismiss the lawsuit.
Increasingly, sociologists are expected to avoid research questions and theories that involve the role of culture in shaping societal inequalities.
A new exhibition curated by Lars von Trier provides a fascinating look at who and what has influenced one of the world’s most prodigiously gifted and provocative filmmakers.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
A thrash-metal classic turns forty.
The legal fight over the controversial measure is expected to continue.
Approval of Trump's handling of the war has been dropping as prices for gasoline and other goods remain elevated.
The school will serve the Space Force, the sixth and newest branch of the military President Donald Trump created during his first term, as well as NASA and the growing civilian spaceflight industry.
A Honduran national in Los Angeles faces felony charges and deportation after allegedly registering to vote, and officials promise more arrests to come.
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
The Postal Service appealed an emergency decision from Thursday that blocked it from changing its procedures for mail-in voting ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
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…
What rules should govern our online digital lives? What rights do we have as digital citizens? The Meta settlement raises more questions than it answers.
The Justice Department sent observers during the state’s primary election this month. A local official said the activities exceeded their authority.
The president’s promised overhaul of the East Potomac course has not officially begun, but tree removal has already been taking place for weeks.
President Donald Trump wants you to pretend that he's on the ballot in the midterm elections.
The turmoil has left a leadership vacuum in the Army at a moment when it is trying to find ways to defend troops against the threat posed by cheap drones.
The courts are not going to save us. We’ll have to do this work politically.
Trump recycled a ranking reflecting midcentury liberal preferences just so he could call himself the ‘greatest.’
The war has deteriorated over the past six months into Mr. Trump’s own version of a “forever war,” with no clear goals and no end in sight.
The US president has been sucked into a quagmire of his own making, with both sides refusing to budge on red lines in negotiations. James C. Reynolds looks at the numbers behind a conflict that may prove to be Trump's greatest miscalculation
Here’s what happened under President Donald Trump and his administration this week that you may have missed.
President Trump issued an executive order barring transgender service members from the military as part of a broader attack on transgender rights.
This was an entirely fake controversy, and Burnham’s reputation has been unjustly tarred.
Republicans need to give their voters a rationale for voting the straight ticket.
The knowledge and infrastructure needed to engineer a pandemic pathogen, once confined to a handful of elite military and civilian research institutions, are quietly becoming more accessible.
The court rejected Trump’s third attempt to move the case to federal court, where the president believes he would benefit from broader protection from prosecution.
President Trump’s administration has been pushing U.S. companies like Chevron to invest more in Venezuela’s oil industry.
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.
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