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Did you know there is a second-term Republican congressman from North Carolina named Chuck Edwards who owns six McDonald’s franchises? I certainly...
In May 2016, Elon Musk did something out of character that he has now spent years of his life trying to undo: He made what he believed to be a...
If I stopped taking the medication that suppresses my HIV, at first I’d feel fine. But over the next few months, my viral load would rise. In the...
“It takes money to kill bad guys.” That’s how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth justified reports that the Pentagon is requesting $200 billion in...
Get ready to hear a lot more about James Talarico. The Texas state representative won the Democratic US Senate primary on Tuesday, defeating Jasmine...
Democrats’ resounding victories in the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races got most of the headlines, but the most dramatic results in last...
Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, defeating former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the second time in five months and...
Donald Trump is finishing what the British started. Despite promises that the White House would be unaffected by the addition of a $230 million...
This Saturday’s “No Kings” protests, at thousands of sites around the country, are expected to draw huge numbers of demonstrators fed up with...
Ever since a government shutdown first started to seem like a real possibility, President Donald Trump has been threatening to use an impasse on...
Any writer worth a damn will tell you that writing short is often a lot harder than writing long. You have to get the pacing, the structure, and the...
Zohran Mamdani hadn’t been Regina Weiss’ first choice for mayor of New York City. She’d ranked city comptroller Brad Lander number-one on her...
Ken Paxton’s path to becoming one of the conservative movement’s most powerful lawyers is littered with the sort of obstacles that might have...
A lot of people want to get a hold of James Talarico these days. The 36-year-old Texas state representative and seminary student is a rising...
Texas is on its way to gerrymandering its own gerrymander. On Saturday, Republicans on the state house of representatives’ redistricting committee...
This month’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was a bit of a bummer. The nonpartisan federal agency announced Friday morning that its...
Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) reported to federal prison on Friday, after pleading guilty in 2024 to identity theft and wire fraud, stemming, in...
In an administration beset by self-inflicted chaos and personal feuds, there has been one gleaming constant at President Donald Trump’s side for...
Let’s start with the proposition that you should not have to know who Andy Ogles is. It often seems like Andy Ogles doesn’t know who he really is,...
It would be an understatement to say that Zohran Mamdani was a bit of an unknown when he began his campaign for mayor of New York City. As recently as...
For a couple weeks, I’ve been getting negative campaign mailers for a New York City council district I don’t live in. I’m not really sure why....
Elon Musk is trying to rewrite the history of his four-month tenure in Washington. As the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X returns to the...
What will you remember about Donald Trump’s second first 100 days? Probably the cruelty and arrogance of the people in charge, and the fecklessness...
President Donald Trump has not been particularly kind to the small African nation of Lesotho. His administration’s dismantling of the United States...
It is a cliche to begin a story about a rally with a quote from a funny sign, but one small piece of floppy brown cardboard floating down 40th Street...
Elon Musk has a simple diagnosis of what’s ailing America: It’s being destroyed by empathy. In a long interview with Joe Rogan, in numerous...
When workers at the United States Agency for International Development got an email earlier this month informing them they were soon to be put on...
In early February, President Donald Trump threatened to cut off “all future funding” to South Africa, alleging that the government was “treating...