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Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan, faces scrutiny over Detroit DSA ties as he prepares to face Mike Rogers.
Declassified FBI memo reveals Jack Smith's team met with Trump-critic and former CIA director John Brennan to discuss Trump's case, despite Smith telling GOP lawmakers he had never met Brennan before.
President Donald Trump says he'll speak with Vladimir Putin "very soon" as his administration tracks a suspected pneumonic plague death in Siberia.
That window probably would be the last chance for President Donald Trump to get a conservative successor to the 76-year-old justice confirmed by the Senate if Democrats take the upper chamber.
Inflation reallocates purchasing power to a minority of Americans who drive spending.
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.
An NGDP rule would limit the Fed’s discretion in return for simplicity, predictability, and a much lower danger of catastrophic monetary mistakes.
I am confident, in any event, that the Trump decade, far from winding down, is on the brink of its greatest fulfillments
A crusade against the ichorous.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews AI expert Gary Marcus about the possibility that a rogue artificial intelligence will turn us all into paper clips.
John Updike, Alice Hoffman, and the golden age of “witch lit.”
Former Human Rights Watch senior editor Danielle Haas on how NGO reports get made, what happens to staff who dissent, and why she wants outside oversight.
Marshall Billingslea warns the Irkutsk researcher's death could involve antibiotic-resistant plague engineered under the Soviet bioweapons program.
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman’s account of the 7 October massacre and its aftermath is a triumph of dogged reporting and shrewd analysis.
Latin America is turning right, and it's a vindication for President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Democrats are surging in Republican states but have some problems in their own strongholds.
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's migrant fines of up to $1.8 million, ruling DHS unlawfully imposed civil penalties for ignoring final deportation orders.
Gov. Wes Moore, who has been a persistent critic of the president, will not participate in Tuesday’s announcement of a $6.6 billion investment.
Joe Biden's limited campaign trail presence contrasts sharply with Barack Obama and Kamala Harris as Democrats fight for midterm majorities.
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 day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
Municipalities all across the country are making innovative investments in community safety departments-and it's starting to pay off.
French President Emmanuel Macron called American free speech "the opposite of free speech" as student protests and school fires sweep across France.
Catherine Liu’s new book makes some valuable points, but it fundamentally misunderstands the trauma culture it critiques.
The latest changes reflect growing worries for Republicans.
To date, the White House hasn't even tried to explain why the job market worsened after the president's second term began.
The plan calls for the federal government to be granted part of the property, with the rest maintained as a private course.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether the U.S. Air Force can keep destroying munitions on a beach in Guam, a practice it began in 1982.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
President Trump had posted a map on his Truth Social account in September depicting Iceland as part of U.S. territory.
We keep getting wake-up calls about surrogacy.
Former Fuyao Glass America Inc. workers in Dayton, Ohio, described unbearable heat, union-busting tactics and a fatal accident to Rep. Ro Khanna.
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…
The Maine senator is used to tough reelection campaigns.
Keeping rates artificially low leads to more economic distortion.
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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.
Vivek Ramaswamy wants to carry Ohio, but on Saturday he struggled to carry one young Ohioan.
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
In “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents,” Senator Thom Tillis details his regrets about backing President Trump’s agenda.
The idea of consecrated women being malevolent hypocrites is too sensational for the media to resist.
Angela Paxton is urging Texas voters to support Mr. Paxton’s Senate campaign, even as she is divorcing him and accusing him of adultery. She has political aspirations of her own.
Populist political coalitions are forming, changing, fracturing.
To rediscover the university’s true purpose, we must return to our core practice of making distinctions.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
FBI agents seized gold bars, cash and luxury watches this year at the home of David J. Rush, according to an affidavit.
It takes a long time to build new nuclear plants. So, some U.S. companies are looking to get more electricity out of reactors that already exist.
Different blocs are moving left. They could swing key Senate races.
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…
Republicans are on defense in governor and state legislative races.
Democratic socialists won't have the power that the Freedom Caucus has in the House.
Documents obtained by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley shows Smith and his cronies spying on journalists as well as lawmakers.
The Common Cents Act already targets the penny, but lawmakers now want the Treasury Department to find cheaper ways to produce the nickel coin.
A Department of War official says foreign adversaries are running psyop campaigns to turn Americans against data centers and AI infrastructure.
We start the week with a hilarious essay from Julie Bindel, who recounts her days as a feminist activist in 1980s Britain. Explaining that hypochondria and performative disability are nothing new in these circles, Bindel puts the fragility of toda…
It might have been an entirely different presidency if Republicans treated Trump like any other president.
The impressive reflexes of Usha Vance were on display Monday.
A conversation with Hoover Institution economist Joshua Rauh.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin responds to Robert Lynch's essay on masturbation.
MAGA needs to maintain its grip on the GOP after Donald Trump - and the 37th president is key
Senator Susan Collins, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the midterms, clashed with the Democratic challenger Troy Jackson over President Trump, ICE and more.
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It’s time for college administrators to forget about creating artificial diversity and focus on finding the best students.
National Republicans are spending big in the Alaska Senate race to protect Sen. Dan Sullivan against Democratic former congresswoman Mary Peltola.
Chelsea Follett's new history shows how wretched life was before the industrial revolution, but our escape from it began long before the steam engine.
A Florida judge just ruled non-citizen voting bans unconstitutional. With judicial races on the midterm ballot, your vote shapes who sits on the bench. Here's why it matters.
As the former UBC professor exacts apologies and legal settlements from his accusers, Brad Cran offers a personal account of the collateral damage that the decade-long saga inflicted on the Canadian literary community.
The high court has upheld bans on transgender athletes on girls’ and women’s sports teams. It has not said whether states can allow them to participate.
Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor repeatedly questioned Supreme Court jurisdiction in Suncor v. Boulder, signaling a possible off-ramp.
Scientists are as prone as anyone else to groupthink, and stifling dissent often produces disaster.
Through American history, cultural change precedes political change.
A plea hearing revealed a far larger pattern of fraud against the government, while keeping some key secrets still hidden.
Julian Epstein, a former top Democratic official, compared the FBI's tracking of Melania Trump, Barron Trump and Susie Wiles to Nixonian tactics.
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The debate in a race for a critical Senate seat featured lots of talk about President Trump, high prices and the war in Iran.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
These are not your ordinary Jew haters. These are Nazi wannabes in search of their Hitler.
Republicans’ massive money advantage has yet to reshape the midterm map, as Democrats keep expanding their ambitions.
Donations from around the country have poured into an obscure Texas campaign.
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 embattled congressman, accused of throwing scalding water at his ex-wife and breaking his daughter’s collarbone, rebuffed earlier Republican calls to drop out.