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Graham Platner cruises to Maine Democratic Senate nomination despite mounting controversies, setting up a key midterm battle against Sen. Susan Collins.
Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who is widely admired in his home country, would have been the first Somali to referee a World Cup game.
Winners in the Republican and Democratic primary races for governor and in a Democratic congressional primary have not yet been determined.
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Truth is stranger than fiction — like a cease-fire in which no one ceases firing. The reality is a stark choice: Defeat an implacable American enemy or take a bad deal.
The congresswoman finished fifth in the state’s GOP gubernatorial primary, according to unofficial returns, solidly losing even her own home county and district.
The results of this year’s Values and Beliefs poll should be welcomed.
ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones will testify before House Administration Committee as Republicans probe alleged donor fraud and false statements to Congress.
Anthony L. Fisher: The South Carolina congresswoman and failed gubernatorial candidate briefly stood up to Trump after he incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. But that was then.
Latest California governor primary results as Democrats Katie Porter, Tom Steyer and Xavier Becerra and Republicans Chad Bianco, Steve Hilton vie for nominations to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s new polemic against assisted dying is its failure to engage with the empirical record.
Graham Platner’s primary victory sets up a high-stakes contest between an insurgent progressive with political baggage and a battle-tested but vulnerable Republican senator.
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…
Today's piece about vaccine fanatic Peter Hotez (and the attached 2025 article in which I called out a former friend for his Covid cowardice) have stirred up some feels. I get it. Let's talk.
Journalists should resolve to treat their Indigenous sources as real-life human beings—as opposed to mystic savants who channel sacred and unfalsifiable ‘knowings’
After spending more than a year in the political wilderness, former president Joe Biden and his family are suddenly everywhere again. Jill Biden has been touring the country to promote her book and rehash many of the arguments surrounding Joe's de…
Rep. Chip Roy introduced the Stop SPLC Act to revoke the Southern Poverty Law Center's tax-exempt status amid a federal probe into alleged crimes.
Author Quinn Slobodian has won acclaim for his attempt to link the famed Austrian economist to right-wing extremists. But his arguments collapse under scrutiny.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
President Trump vows to attack Iran "very hard" after accusing Tehran of prolonging nuclear negotiations and targeting a U.S. military helicopter.
Last night, Graham Platner won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maine.
Graham Platner made history on Tuesday, becoming the first vanity oysterman and Nazi-tattooed Hotchkiss attendee to win a major party's nomination for U.S. Senate while facing credible allegations of domestic abuse. Barring another unforeseen setb…
That crazed, savage knifing was a bloody byproduct of state failure.
Bill Gates will sit for a voluntary interview with the House Oversight Committee about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after the 2008 conviction.
Trump-endorsed Halo composer Marty O'Donnell advances in GOP primary to challenge Democratic incumbent Susie Lee in Nevada's 3rd congressional district.
Hempstead Township passes emergency resolution to preserve "mother" and "father" in its legal code after New York passed gender-neutral parental terms.
The costs that the state’s policies would impose on consumers were anticipated, and now, the consequences of voters’ heedlessness are coming home to roost.
The legislation, which brings to an end a four-month lapse in funding, now goes to President Trump to sign into law.
Extralegal violence will solve nothing.
Apparently, the world of ‘social justice’ means that we can’t have fair exams.
A new fast-track program will allow certain visa applicants to pay a premium and secure an interview within 10 business days.
The top of the ticket in Maine embodies all the worst traits that the progressive left assumed were present in all men.
This case shows how quickly tragedy becomes raw material for those who seek to exploit it.
Iona Italia talks to lawyer and historian Adam Wakeling about the enduring importance of Enlightenment values and how to defend them today.
For days protesters have been clashing with law enforcement over conditions at an ICE detention facility in New Jersey. Our reporter Hamed Aleaziz explains how these complaints persist across the country, and takes a closer look at the problems do…
I’m a little skeptical about this. Other parts of the American economy, including the industrial economy, seem to be coming online vigorously.
President Trump’s advisers gathered in secret in the Situation Room without him as they struggled to handle the Epstein files scandal, our reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan learned while researching their book, “Regime Change.” Here’s th…
The trip comes as the Trump administration pushes for political and economic changes on the island.
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…
What is consciousness for?
The #CancelColbert saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.
President Trump has said that construction is complete. Now comes the real test. Will the longstanding problems finally be solved?
Spencer Pratt’s third-place finish is deeply disappointing, but not particularly shocking.
David Flippo won his party’s nomination for a safely Republican open seat, defeating a candidate backed by the G.O.P. governor.
Sen. Tom Cotton urges DOJ to investigate alleged Chinese influence campaign funded by Neville Roy Singham targeting U.S. data centers and AI infrastructure development.
The morally acceptable answer to all suicide ideations should be universal, regardless of the ‘why’: rescue and prevention, which is to say, love.
Graham Platner easily secured Maine's Democratic nomination for a key U.S. Senate seat. In South Carolina, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace's career derailed.
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.
Follow President Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
Hava Mendelle — army veteran, nurse, and co-founder of Minority Impact — speaks with Zoe Sankey about antisemitism in Australia, the red-green alliance, October 7th, and why she left the activist left behind.
For Spencer Pratt's supporters, the last four days of the Los Angeles mayoral primary vote-counting and conclusion were like a gut punch delivered in slow motion.
The president and the Maryland governor are at odds again — this time over renovations to golf courses at Joint Base Andrews.
The story of Nancy Mace is merely another variation of the same sequence of events that led to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation from Congress in January.
Sen. Dan Sullivan claims a same-name rival in Alaska's GOP primary is a Democratic plant designed to confuse voters under ranked-choice voting.
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.
So far in the war against Iran, the president’s actions are the sort that will invite future aggression against American interests and allies.
Haaland could make history as the first female Native American governor if she’s elected.
As Trump clamps down on Netanyahu, the Israeli leader is finding he has few avenues of appeal among American politicians.
British liberals exclude reactionary cranks like Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur because they don’t have the stomach for a fight.
Four years into the full-scale invasion, Ukraine bears little resemblance to the country Russia expected to defeat in a matter of days.
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The state’s vast rural areas, which make up the swing Second Congressional District, will be important in November.
The head of the Democratic fund-raising behemoth declined to answer questions from House Republicans about reports that she may have misled Congress over how her group vetted foreign donations.
Trump signed the $70 billion homeland security bill after it narrowly passed the House, funding ICE and CBP through the remainder of his term.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
British author Josh Ireland’s new book about the murder of Leon Trotsky tells the gripping story of a rivalry between two very different men.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
France and Germany abandon the Future Combat Air System sixth-generation fighter jet program, dealing a major blow to Europe's defense autonomy amid NATO spending.
The best thing former President Joe Biden and his family can do is go away and let Democrats battle Trump and Republicans free of their baggage.
'It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state'
The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself.
Michael Boris scores upset victory in Nevada's 1st Congressional District Republican primary, defeating Trump-backed state Sen. Carrie Buck. OR Trump-endorsed state Sen. Carrie Buck wins Republican primary to take on Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., in Ne…