One of the things Republicans clearly understand much better than Democrats is that politics...

'Don't trust the videos': Longevity expert breaks silence on Trump's health

In the 1940s, The Nation asked questions about the atomic bomb we’re asking of artificial intelligence today.

Trump may invade Cuba, Republicans are panicking over a projected blue tsunami, DHS lied about noncitizens voting, and the Ellisons are using the Paramount merger to build a surveillance state

He’s the single worst Democratic hopeful now (almost) running for president. Democratic midterm candidates be warned: stay away from him.

If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.

A Black Hawk pilot who left both legs in Iraq has told her own party's leadership to cut it out, on C-SPAN, in four words. Fumble it a second time and there won't be a third.

Colorado voters are asked to elect congressional representatives, approve ballot measures and choose a new governor in November.

The task for Democrats now is to keep the wounded, zombie version of it from encroaching further or clawing its way back to power.

Here’s what I’m hearing

Trump allies are urging martial law for the midterms, McConnell can't speak, ICE attacked a U.S. citizen in Illinois, and a Missouri woman was arrested for speaking against Flock cameras

Democracy dies in the darkness

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

Secretary Hegseth announced Tuesday that colonels and captains seeking promotions will undergo a new Joint Warfighter Evaluation.

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UN delegates walked out on Trump, his FBI killed a Susan Collins bribery probe, his FCC Chair spent a decade in a cultlike AA group, and JD Vance cut hundreds of thousands from Obamacare

Make no mistake: The United States can seize Netanyahu for crimes under US law and prosecute him in US courts when he is in New York City this week.

Every day he gets loonier

Social democracy transformed the 20th century, giving working people a share of wealth and power their grandparents could scarcely imagine. But the movement that set out to overcome capitalism ultimately struggled to defend what it had won within it.

His decision to shut the House down at a moment of crisis around AI is the act of a reckless charlatan.

Review of archaeo-geophysical work undertaken in and around the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV 62) since 2015, including two seasons carried out in 2023-2024 under the auspices of Prof. Dr Mamdouh Eldamaty, ...

Geophysical survey yields ‘tantalizing’ data that could point to Nefertiti’s burial place — but it’s too early to draw definitive conclusions.

His vanity, narcissism, vainglory, and vindictiveness are mere symptoms

Is it possible that we’re really all connected with each other and the universe at some unfathomably deep level?

President Donald Trump admitting he took inspiration from Nazi references for new Space Force uniforms is something else.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau is on the lookout for statues of ancient Babylonian deities. No, really.

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in i...

Trump said that Iran’s missile supply was decimated. But a new report says otherwise.

Trump said that Iran’s missile supply was decimated. But a new report says otherwise.

October 25, 2001. We should have listened, Russ

"Having people pledge allegiance to himself is the most on-brand Trump thing to do," said one progressive critic. "And it shows how cult-like the base is that they did it."

"US officials who orchestrated post-9/11 abuses must also be held accountable, and their victims must receive meaningful remedy and reparation."

The September 11 attacks show us our vulnerability—an especially terrifying prospect when paired with the threat of nuclear proliferation.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, we reflect on grief that crossed borders and the WordPress.com community keeping that day's memory alive.

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani has responded perfectly.

America has been lied into too many wars. It’s cost us too much in money, credibility, and blood. We must remember the lies, and tell our children about them so that memory isn’t lost...

President Donald Trump followed up his flop-filled Wednesday speech at the 2026 Republican midterms convention with an equally blunder-brimming sequel on Thursday. Even as many of Trump's fellow Repub...

It’s not the first time a late-night interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico has had to air online.

The question is when, if, and how Congress will stop him

Shocking revelations from Haaretz expose Netanyahu's prior knowledge of the devastating Hamas attack in 2023, leading to a brutal retaliation.

"People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air," Mamdani said, announcing the release of 170,000 files.