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Comparing yourself to others locks you into a contest you can never win and makes other people’s wins feel like your defeats.
DoorDash's so-called Cheeseburger Index reveals a burger, fries and soda costs $12.94 in Austin but $28.28 in Anchorage, exposing stark local gaps for the same meal.
Federalism and state sovereignty are important parts of the American tradition.
The unusual cross-party fundraising committee comes amid speculation that Republicans are courting John Fetterman, who has said he has no plans to switch parties.
The collapse of Graham Platner’s Senate bid in Maine after a rape allegation renewed attention to a movement built by Senator Bernie Sanders that some say is too forgiving of male misconduct.
The officials said that Iranian negotiators blamed the recent ship attacks on rogue military units.
How the beautiful game convinced the world that boredom is sophistication.
The extraordinary story of how a fragile Holocaust songbook, hidden for decades in a Sydney cupboard, came back to the world.
The US Women's National Team is a major player in FIFA's Women's World Cup, having won two of the last three and four since the women's World Cup was established in 1991.
The conventional media wisdom is that Maine GOP Senator Susan Collins is sitting back and laughing this week, and well she might be. The collapse of Graham Platner's campaign is an implosion for the ages, and it puts the state's Democrats in a tri…
How decades of invisible science produced two cancer breakthroughs.
What Vigeland is saying is that a politician’s character doesn’t really matter as long as he robotically pulls all the right levers in office.
Ro Khanna claims armed Israeli settlers with U.S.-made M4 rifles detained his group in the West Bank before IDF troops arrived on the scene.
Prosecutors laid out their case against Tyler James Robinson on Day 4 of the preliminary hearing in Utah.
The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in the Trump era.
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.
A New York school suspended a 15-year-old boy for an allegation of sexual assault without letting him defend himself or even calling his parents. Hours later, he died by suicide.
Shifting deadlines are confusing businesses as the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and others looms, making them ineligible to live and work in the United States.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Fund manager Derek Francis tells Claire Lehmann that Treasury's modelling of Australia's new capital gains tax contains a basic error — one that could push tax rates on shares as high as 70 percent.
In all likelihood, the activists will keep right on as they have, perhaps more covertly.
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.
Maine Democrats are embarking on a two-week sprint to pick a new nominee for one of the year's most important races in the wake of Graham Platner's decision this week to end his Senate campaign after allegations of sexual assault, which he denies.
Representative Ro Khanna was barred from leaving for 90 minutes. Where past U.S. leaders toured the region to show support for Israel, today’s Democratic presidential aspirants are going to bolster their credentials as critics.
America isn't a Christian nation. But it has never been strictly secular.
She has devoted herself to defending the man accused of killing Charlie while relentlessly attacking Charlie's widow, his friends, and the organization he dedicated his life to, all while claiming to be fighting for justice in Charlie's name.
A new White House report exposes radical political activists’ takeover of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Even Platner’s resignation was ultimately undercut by his own sheer trashiness.
Trump refused to sign the housing bill to pressure Congress on the SAVE America Act, but the measure became law without his signature at midnight.
Too brief a stop in Music City.
For the first time this year in my extensive polling, the newest survey out of Georgia shows a material rebound for President Donald Trump and for other
It's no surprise that he admires President Trump, perhaps the least suicidally empathetic politician in the Western world. Can Mr. Trump and his administration turn the tables on the suicidal empathizers?
Leaders of the Maine Democratic Party are still working toward a process to replace Graham Platner, without angering his supporters.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Our friend Karl Rove is now on Substack. You’ll want to check it out.
Crews began draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Friday to clean up fireworks debris and repair damage the Trump administration blamed on vandals.
Thirty years as a high-functioning neurodivergent project manager.
"Gotta go," a young woman murmured into her phone, slipping into a gaggle of gawking New Yorkers pointing and staring at a teetering office tower in the heart of midtown Manhattan on Tuesday. "This building's like collapsing in New York."
Her argument about Hamilton has, if not a fatal flaw, at least a highly debilitating one: Hamilton changed his mind.
A Trump-appointed judge granted dismissal of four Proud Boys leaders' Jan. 6 convictions but sharply rebuked the Capitol riot as an attack on democracy.
The move paved the way for Democrats to choose a new nominee to challenge Senator Susan Collins in a race both parties see as key to the control of the Senate.
A source says Dan Moraff and Morris Katz repeatedly ignored their vetting firm's warnings that the Maine Senate candidate needed deeper investigation.
There are, theoretically, alternatives to the Patriots, but they either don’t measure up or Ukraine doesn’t have access to them.
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
His candidacy stoked tensions among Democrats over gender and how to win back working-class voters.
When entering debates about immigration, economists have often checked their credibility at the door.
Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a federal judge in Washington, noted that he had little choice but to accept the Trump administration’s move to end the case.
The Democratic Socialists of America have taken the official position that the Senate should be abolished. This is impossible under the Constitution.
The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian.
An appeal to the Supreme Court for more delay would be futile.
Rep. Madeleine Dean said it was an easy call to never back Graham Platner, citing his Nazi-linked tattoo and abuse allegations before the rape claim emerged.
Minnesota state officials had granted a pardon to Tou Lue Vang, a Hmong man, drawing criticism that Democratic leaders were thwarting efforts to expel criminals.
Chinese organized crime groups are replacing nicotine with 6-methyl nicotine in flavored disposable vapes to evade FDA oversight, a former official says.
Along with creating tumult in a must-win race for Democrats, Graham Platner's exit is laying bare division between the party's left wing and moderates.
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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The National Capital Planning Commission, led by the president’s allies, voted to advance the project near Arlington Cemetery, tabling a height question for later.
President Trump has wrongly attributed the $2 billion windfall he gained during his second term to a hot stock market and claimed that he was the only president to donate his salary.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Aaron Pete, Chief of the Chawathil First Nation, about reserve governance, residential schools, ‘unmarked graves,’ and intra-Indigenous politics.
Avi Loeb's scientific advisory council has requested over 50 Pentagon videos and documents related to UAP sightings under a new transparency push.
Lee Zeldin argues climate projections for 2050 and 2100 represent a range of outcomes, not certainties, and warns against labeling skeptics as deniers.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
America’s hard left has a long tradition of concealing its extremism.
Claudia Verhoeven’s new book is a valuable contribution to the crowded library of Mansonia.
What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
Two senior editors discuss the difficult effort to track down allegations against the leading Democrat for Senate in Maine and the questions that soon followed.
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…
Sen. Eric Schmitt warns the progressive surge toppling Democratic incumbents in New York and Michigan will define the party's 2028 presidential primary.
Not quite 2,300 years ago, but more like 17 years ago, the story goes, the executives of Barnes & Noble asked their engineers to build a device that could hold every book ever printed. The company, which had spent a century filling oak shelves one…
President Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that "1,000 missiles are locked and loaded" if Iran acts on assassination threats made against him.
Parnell Palme McGuinness on the six distinct "tribes" of young Australians she uncovered—and why personal agency, not income, is the strongest predictor of happiness.