The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she is “deeply disturbed” with the original investigation conducted by Cornell police following gang rape allegations at the Chi Phi fraternity house in 2024, vowing to...

Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...

The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.

The character Peggy, from Mad Men, was apparently modelled on a real life copywriter. Shirley Polykoff. But Shirley Polykoff didn’t have much in common with Peggy. Polykoff was a terrific writer for a...

YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

The floor stunt attempted to give Republicans facing tough reelection fights something to campaign on as voters sour on the GOP’s willingness to acquiesce to Trump on artificial intelligence, the war ...

I’m figuring this will end up as a big mistake. You probably...

The former Maine governor, a Republican running for Congress, said the Trump administration is seeking to wrongly deport his son’s father-in-law, who has a work permit.

Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

Guest Judge Jim Shepard chose Michael Hughes Wesner's "The Big Reboot" as the third place winner in this 2025-2026 Winter Short Story Award for New Writers. Read the story here, and then check out thi...

The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...

In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.