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Gen Z calls it Chinamaxxing. But the West's new infatuation with China is less a triumph of Communist Party soft power than a symptom of our own decline.
If you’re not already familiar with the casus belli that ignited the Gaza war, watching the fifth season of ‘Fauda’ will be good for you, but it will also be bad for you.
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.
Megyn Kelly discussed the allegations against Cornell fraternity members, arguing that while the alleged conduct was "shameful and disgusting," it does not necessarily constitute rape.
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…
Marco Rubio ordered the deportation of Milwaukee's largest mosque leader on national security grounds, citing Israeli convictions and alleged terror ties.
Democrat James Talarico holds a slim 2-point edge over Republican Ken Paxton as GOP enthusiasm gaps and crossover voters reshape the Texas Senate race.
Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s extraordinary testimony about the Hiroshima attack and its aftermath has been published by his daughter some forty years after his death.
Price stability hasn’t been restored when inflation keeps coming in above 3 percent.
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that's resonating-even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
The controlled substance is approved as an anesthetic, but also has long been abused as a party and date rape drug.
The ruling is the latest in a string of decisions finding that the administration bent federal law to keep loyalists in key prosecutorial posts.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Republicans need to go bold and sell the good news about President Donald Trump's economy to voters because the media sure won't.
Since the October 7 attacks, Israel has ceaselessly beaten the Islamic radicals who threaten its existence. That victory is worth more than the approval of its critics, writes Douglas Murray.
The progressive Senate candidate is offering olive branches to Jewish voters and campaigning with Kamala Harris to attract Black voters. Polling shows it may be working.
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.
The hero, identified on Wednesday night as Yaniv Hayun, said: "When I went in, I saw the terrorist on the controls, between the two seats. There were no pilots in the seats."
U2 reconsidered at fifty.
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Brett McGurk, who was the top Middle East adviser to President Joseph R. Biden Jr., offered the first inside-the-room account of American efforts to manage the Gaza war.
Last week, New York Times correspondent Nikole Hannah-Jones published an article that set social media ablaze. "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?" tells the story of Hannah-Jones' shock at learning her then-eighth-grade daugh…
Voters aren't falling for Trump's taxpayer-funded ads and phony promises to pay them $5,000
Advocates for U.S. citizens overseas say the changes may spark confusion among eligible voters abroad and local election offices.
The latest event will take place next month at the president’s golf club in Northern Virginia.
Federal authorities on Thursday charged a Boston-area man with harassing Katie Miller, a conservative podcaster and wife of Trump aide Stephen Miller.
This unbelievable sequence of events has huge implications.
America.gov developers planted Easter eggs across Trump's new AI-powered site, including a Minecraft "End Poem" parody and a hot dog search bar.
The maxim that ‘all politics is local’ still retains strength. And sometimes, you just have to be ‘the other guy.’
The former special counsel's testimony--in addition to new disclosures by Sen. Charles Grassley--is a reminder of the destruction the country avoided with Trump's 2024 win.
Iran’s death throes have been violent, but death throes nonetheless.
The tragicomic obsession with disability and disease on display at the Last Ditch bar isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s been part of militant lesbian culture since the Cold War.
We want to hear from people who bought the $TRUMP memecoin, no matter the reason, and whether they made or lost money.
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a Kentucky Catholic church's fight over a prayer grotto, a case that could reshape RLUIPA zoning law nationwide.
Dustin Volz, a Times reporter who covers cybersecurity, wanted to help readers understand a huge breach of government data that could put workers and families at risk.
Republicans have to campaign without having done much to address the cost of living.
John Updike, Alice Hoffman, and the golden age of “witch lit.”
State officials tried and failed to execute Christa Pike. She is now in critical condition, her lawyers said Thursday, and they have not been able to see or speak with her since she was hospitalized.
The pilots of an Amazon cargo jet had never worked together before the day of the crash, and were traveling at an abnormally high speed when they hit the runway, the report said.
Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, moved to slash his agency’s inspector general’s office. Democrats called for his resignation.
The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.
The woman known as "Jane Doe" was initially embarrassed about what happened at a fraternity party in 2024, but soon concluded: "I was assaulted."
The inquiry by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission centers on bets the former congressman made on Kalshi in the weeks before he was pardoned in January 2025.
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.
The project, which would revamp how visitors enter the White House grounds, is one Trump construction effort that has drawn wide agreement.
Trump’s low standing with voters limits the places he can most effectively campaign. Advisers hope he can energize GOP voters.
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Judge Todd Edelman's ruling prevents the Justice Department from refiling charges against Hearn, who was accused of damaging the pool’s peeling coating.
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's margins in redrawn districts fuel Republican hopes of flipping 10 Democratic House seats in the battle for Congress.
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.
JD Vance rallied for Roger Marshall as the Kansas Senate race against Adam Hamilton tightens with Election Day political headwinds battering the GOP.
U.S. Central Command will hold a daylong conference at its Tampa headquarters after seven months of war in Iran.
The civilized world got lucky in the U.K. and in the skies over the United Arab Emirates. But luck runs out.
Against the state execution of Christa Pike.
The move followed reports detailing how A7, a Moscow firm, uses shell companies around the world to move funds for clients who are themselves subject to sanctions.
The Church of England and the failures of interfaith politics.
College accreditation never did much to ensure quality education.
Congress avoided a government shutdown this fall, but midterm elections could spark a December spending battle or a new shutdown in early 2027.
The diverted funds include tens of millions of dollars that Congress approved for countries affected by the war in Ukraine.
Democratic House candidates in two New York metropolitan area districts had markedly different performances in debates against the Republican incumbents they're trying to unseat.
Republican Michele Tafoya is closing the gap with a centrist message as Flanagan avoids debates and media scrutiny
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Josh Turek holds a slim edge over Ashley Hinson in Iowa's U.S. Senate race as cost of living dominates voter concerns and independents break heavily.
A federal court ruling is sure to spawn a thousand analogies in future lawsuits.
The state struck 20,000 names from the public database after a ruling by the state’s highest court.
Marco Rubio ordered Iran's delegation to leave New York after talks stalled, as President Donald Trump warned ramped-up bombing is "possible."
David Ellison is negotiating to keep CNN’s chief executive, Mark Thompson, in place without oversight from Bari Weiss, the CBS editor in chief, when the networks’ parent companies merge.
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Burnham’s acknowledgment that Iran played a role in this plot has started a sequence of events that may take on a life of their own.
The issue was resolved in 1974, and historians have been arguing about it for two generations.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's antisemitism task force boosts funding from $3 million to $29 million but refuses to adopt a formal definition of anti-Jewish hate.
In 1967, left-wing intellectuals accused America of genocide in Vietnam—they were wrong then, and they’re wrong again now.
“Our summers used to actually be summers,” one justice lamented.
The White House is sending $500 refund checks with a personal Trump letter to 950,000 Americans across 30 states over Obamacare overcharges.
NR’s investigations into Washington State were announced as finalists for the Daylight Award.
The party leadership has repeatedly issued warnings that Trump would interfere with mail-in ballots.
An OpenAI agent’s breach of a Medicare portal shows that the real danger from AI is a mundane one—and the labs’ fixation on a coming machine god is making it worse.
Kantor knows exactly what she’s doing.
Republicans lined up a series of doomed votes in their final hours, hoping to portray Democrats as obstructionists. But some conceded that their party was more likely to be punished.