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Recalling one of the best reactions to Charlie Kirk’s murder.
Sex is declining because the options seem endless. This is counter-intuitive, but biologically it makes sense.
Gender parity in employment is here. Now what?
Political scientist Richard Hanania discusses why populism usually fails, why Western elites matter, immigration, MAGA, H-1B visas, housing and declining fertility.
Vice President JD Vance will use a deeply personal speech to reflect on the legacy of late friend Charlie Kirk, the joys of fatherhood and the future he hopes America can provide.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
The operation’s long-awaited spree extended competitive House races
A community that embraces a set of shared beliefs is not necessarily a bad thing, but the value of solidarity depends entirely on the merits of the cause in question.
Senate Republican John Barrasso says Democratic senators privately admit the progressive wave led by Abdul El-Sayed and others is their future.
On the second night of the Republican gathering in Dallas, Vice President JD Vance was the headliner. But President Trump returned to center stage.
Let’s stop the hypocrisy and rename it.
The countermessaging includes speaking to Texas voters about affordability issues and Democratic efforts to regain control of the House.
Democrats condemned the calls for violence. The Republican senator did not address the outburst in the moment but later posted a clip in which it could be clearly heard.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the foreign terrorist designation of Los Tiguerones during his diplomatic tour through Latin America.
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The bloom is off the rose. The honeymoon is over. The Democratic Party seems determined to divorce John Fetterman.
The White House and Department of Health and Human Services lawyers signed off on the plan to let the health secretary use military jets, according to people familiar with the plan.
The United States remains economically dominant as China loses ground.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he hopes Republicans lose the House and Senate in the midterms to hold President Donald Trump accountable for the trade war with Canada.
The president made clear as his midterm convention wrapped up that he wants to carry his party through a tough midterms. He just won’t go too far out of his way to do it.
A new report on the Canada Research Chairs program analyses the reduced standards applied to scholars belonging to ‘equity groups.’
The House of Commons is taking up a terrible bill tomorrow.
A researcher wanted to see if his method could discern an overall political orientation in a department.
One of us (Mr. Fryer) released a study in 2016-later published in the Journal of Political Economy-finding that police aren't more likely to shoot black Americans than white Americans, after accounting for the relevant context. Colleagues who read…
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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.
Jonah tries to give more political coherence and consistency to Reagan’s overall record than I think is really there.
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…
The Trump administration does not know how to use American power to expand American influence, and its officials do not care to learn.
President Donald Trump will attend a Pentagon ceremony on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 while JD Vance joins former presidents at the World Trade Center.
The vice president, widely seen as a potential White House candidate, sought to use his speech in Dallas to show a more personal side to the MAGA faithful.
Top Senate Republicans are pouring eight figures into a new Texas PAC to boost Ken Paxton against James Talarico in a razor-thin Senate showdown.
Interviews with two veterans in Congress highlight how the terrorist attacks that sparked wars in Iraq and Afghanistan changed the nation’s politics but did not leave its leaders with monolithic views.
Doora, an AI grief chatbot from nonprofit Hold the Door, launched on the 9/11 anniversary to honor a father killed in the World Trade Center.
IRVING, Texas -While the Republican Party faithful streamed through Secret Service checkpoints in downtown Dallas, other conservatives flocked to the Rayleigh event center in Irving, less than two miles up the road. A new conservative programming …
Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was at a 9/11 memorial event nearby.
To be clear, Merkel was the second-worst chancellor in German history.
Robyn Autry: Lonnie Bunch leaves the Smithsonian better than he found it
Francis Fukuyama’s new memoir assesses an intellectual life devoted to the health of the liberal-democratic idea.
Scores of New Yorkers and 9/11 families signed a petition urging Zohran Mamdani to skip the Ground Zero memorial over his Ramzi Kassem pick.
Conference chairwoman Lisa McClain will focus on Democratic policies, including those on immigration.
JD Vance fired back at a protester waving Mexican and Palestinian flags on the GOP convention floor, offering to buy them a plane ticket to Mexico.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the Trump administration is tapping Venezuela's 300 billion barrels of oil reserves to expand supply and cut prices.
Anna D. Shapiro’s recent revival of Eric Bentley’s 1972 play about the HUAC hearings offered entertainment along with the pleasures of moral certainty and ideological reinforcement.
Republicans hoped to boost enthusiasm for Ken Paxton during the two-day event in Dallas. The Texas attorney general is facing off against Democrat James Talarico in November for a U.S. Senate seat.
Does anybody want to launch the Anti Big Phone Movement alongside me?
Despite his meager intervention, interest rates on the national debt have continued to shoot up.
I don't remember 9/11. I was 6 years old - I also have a bad memory - so I have no recollection of what I was doing that day, or when I learned that terrorists had killed nearly 3,000 people.
Sydney psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed on why men who quit work aren't depressed but demoralised, and how mental health labels became a rival source of status and dignity.
Joseph diGenova — a Trump loyalist — told The Washington Post that he has submitted his resignation to the attorney general amid disagreements over the pace of the investigation into Trump's political foes.
Government should be about producing results for people.
Our politics reporter Reid Epstein explains how the Trump administration is using the Postal Service to intervene in mail-in voting in state elections.
With energetic campaigning and savvy responses to the media's Hasan Piker obsession, the Michigan Democrat is maintaining solid poll numbers.
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 children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, have been the forgotten victims in this case.
English departments are increasingly ignoring the great works of the past, in favour of popular literary works that reflect activist themes and nonliterary works of political and social theory.
A New Jersey teenager watched the second plane hit and heard a rumor that his own father was dead. It was the worst day.
To the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, red tape would be a subsidy.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Every few decades, the ideas with the worst track records come back into style.
There is so much more to life than politics.
President Donald Trump led the Dallas crowd in a voting pledge and warned supporters they'd "go to hell" if they skip the midterm elections this November.
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…
Differences in height between men and women—a biomarker of stressor exposure in childhood—suggest that poor early health and nutrition constrain what children are achieving at school.
Progressive political candidates in 2026 are doing more than just trying to win an election.
A socialist protester blamed right-wing provocateurs after Dallas police in riot gear arrested two near the Republican National Committee convention.
Britain cannot make up its mind. It’s either suicidal or it’s not.
A year ago, on the afternoon of September 10, 2025, I was 20 feet away when my friend Charlie Kirk was murdered
The two-day event features elected Republican officials, musical performances and other speakers in support of the party’s midterm candidates.
Trump got his big show. Vance took the baton. ‘Common sense’ was the term. No bad vibes allowed.
The vice president characterized Democrats as the “party of hatred,” while urging Republicans to unify. His role could strengthen his potential presidential bid.