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The victory by Minnesota’s lieutenant governor was the latest for the left-wing movement in the Midwest. She could become the first Native woman in the Senate.
Late into Tuesday night, Hong, a chef and state lawmaker who has drawn enthusiastic support from the party's left flank, found herself overtaken by Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, as six states held primary elections.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s lead over Bruce Blakeman narrowed from 20 points among registered voters in Siena’s June poll to 10 points among likely voters in its latest poll.
Amid a regional scramble to shape the “day after,” Jordan appears to be the only country without a plan of its own.
Old-fashioned Chicago corruption looks better than drowning in incompetent activist government.
The Special Operations Forces Concealed Carry Act would extend Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act-style privileges to qualified special operator veterans.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with University of Hawaii professor Ashley Rubin, co-author of the recently published ‘Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences’
There is a serious ripple effect from Spain’s immigration choices.
Lars von Trier’s harrowing but resplendent story of suffering and grace turns thirty this year.
Those beating the drums for utopian socialism in America could benefit from an education in real-world consequences.
In an upset, Luke Bronin, the former mayor of Hartford, won the Democratic nomination, capitalizing on calls for generational change.
In a new book, Robert O’Connell situates the battlefield tactics of ancient Greek hoplites within the grand sweep of bronze-age military history.
U.S. fighter jets escorted the decoy Air Force One carrying the press corps and senior staff to the United Kingdom after Trump's secret plane swap.
The Department of Homeland Security described the gloves as a “de-escalation device,” but critics said they could encourage agents to use more force.
Thank goodness we’ve ended all that politicization of the Department of Justice!
Mr. Little, a former mayor and state senator, beat two other candidates. He focused on promises of banning corporate money from politics and supporting Medicare for all.
Why a Victorian obscenity trial tanked the birth rate, what the wellness industry gets wrong, and the case for choosing your baby's genes — with the internet's most data-obsessed anon.
Tuesday, August 11th on RealClearPolitics - Joined by Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution and RCP Senior Elections Analyst, Sean Trende:00:00 Primary D...
As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.
What Ocasio-Cortez's viral 'woke one was crazy' remarks reveal about how the left is evolving.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
The Milwaukee County executive, who won a tight primary race against Francesca Hong early Wednesday, could become the first Black governor of Wisconsin.
The administration of President Donald Trump has escalated its crackdown on transgender medical care ahead of the midterm elections.
Unlike typical grand juries, those designated as special focus on a single case or related cases and can issue a report following their investigation.
New York City mayor faces messy rollout of pied-a-terre tax and fraying relations with local politicians
How AI prose exploits the charity that makes reading possible.
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…
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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…
An awful story has broken into the headlines illustrating the moral peril of commercial surrogacy.
Every four years, Pennsylvania plays a critical role in deciding who sits in the Oval Office. This year, in the same diners, farm fields, suburbs, union halls and front porches, the state may also decide who runs the House of Representatives.
There have been lots of bizarre primary results around the country-mostly on the Democrat side, to be fair-but it looks like here in Minnesota, reason has prevailed.
The military operation was the first following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s dismantling of an office focused on mitigating unintended casualties.
Del. Wren Williams compared Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's Galax visit to Hillary Clinton's hot sauce moment, saying nobody was buying it.
How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.
Our attitudes toward suicide and doctor-assisted suicide are incoherent.
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
Ms. Cooke, a three-time congressional candidate, held a huge fund-raising edge in a western Wisconsin race that Democrats consider pivotal to their hopes of flipping the House.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the White House kept Congress “in the dark” about last month’s ruse to avoid an Iranian threat.
Michael Alfonso, 26, had the support of the transportation secretary and an endorsement from President Trump.
Former Iowa Democratic state Rep. Christina Bohannan missed 45% of Iowa House floor votes in 2022 while campaigning for a congressional seat.
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Democratic and Republican candidates nationwide are running on their opposition to data center projects.
Democrats fought over age and ideology, while Republicans tested the value of President Donald Trump’s endorsement.
Frank Miller’s valuable new memoir explores the creative life of one of America’s most gifted writers and artists.
Trump claims his secret plane was in more danger than the Air Force One decoy the public thought Trump was flying on.
President Donald Trump told reporters "the law is very strong" on a third term but has previously outlined a JD Vance route scholars reject.
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan just scored the Democratic nomination for Senate, but she's hampered by some heavy baggage: her role during the Minnesota fraud scandal.
We should discuss whether freezing eggs — and the IVF procedures that normally follow — should happen at all.
I know this is going to shock you, but MIke Lindell says the results of the primary he lost were hacked and are fraudulent.
The Democratic Party's nominations of Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed and Maine's Troy Jackson, along with Francesca Hong's expected victory in Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary, point in the same direction. Democratic socialism will be a central and de…
Proposed guidance from the Treasury Department clarifies how employer and employee contributions to the new accounts would work.
In his first public comments on the operation, the president downplayed the risks to officials and journalists who remained on Air Force One for the flight from Turkey.
History shows that a first-place win heading into a runoff is far from an assurance of an ultimate victory in the Palmetto State.
The extraordinary subterfuge was aimed at protecting an American president who has been in Iran’s cross hairs for years.
The three-day athletic event in Ohio featured dodgeball, tug-of-war and a lot of praise for the president. Just don't tell anyone who won.
If the Democratic Party’s most ambitious office-seekers now seek wokeness as a political albatross, that’s good. But not everyone got the memo.
Gina LaPlaca and her husband Jason Carty face ballot fraud charges after allegedly using fake signatures on her Democratic primary petition in New Jersey.
A look back at the 20th century’s most entertaining literary spat—one of the few such encounters that Orwell emphatically lost.
People are angry, and I don't blame them.
A moderate won the closely fought Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin, the latest contest between the party’s progressive and moderate wings.
Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a letter to the Justice and Interior departments pressing for more information on the felony prosecution of David Hearn.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Michele Tafoya won the Minnesota GOP Senate primary and now faces Peggy Flanagan, pitching common sense to voters across the political spectrum.
The final deadline for Representative Max Miller to remove himself from Ohio's general-election ballot came and went Monday as the congressman continues his reelection bid in defiance of bipartisan calls for his resignation and allegations of abus…
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 NYPD denied it would send officers to Syria and Lebanon with Rama Duwaji, contradicting Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office on the security detail.
The party establishment is breathing a sign of relief that democratic socialist Francesca Hong, who led the pre-election polls by double-digits, will not be topping their ticket.
Michael Alfonso, Sean Duffy's 26-year-old son-in-law, defeated a crowded field to win the Republican nomination for Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District.
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters don't want to cancel Thanksgiving - on balance, at least. Come November, however, few Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their party's vote-tabulation systems. Francesca Hong, it seems, will no…
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Governor Maura Healey signed an anyplace-anytime abortion policy into law, prompting celebration in the statehouse.
President Donald Trump's private advisors can now claim executive privilege under a new Justice Department memo, and Democrats vow investigations.
They should put the self-congratulations on hold. They’ve lost a lot of ground to their erstwhile complacency, and they’ve only just begun to fight back.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is suddenly trying to distance herself from what she, her comrades, and her organizational affiliations have and still advocate.
‘How do you think the economy is doing’ has turned into a proxy question of ‘how do you think the president’s doing?’
Is this the reckoning that human-rights NGOs have long avoided?
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 president was accompanied by some of his most loyal aides but no top administration officials as he made the clandestine move to a different plane to leave Turkey last month.