I learned late this afternoon that, in addition to being Dolly Parton Day, today is National Lobster Day, honoring the cultural and economic history of the lobster industry.

Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.

Thousands of people gathered outside the John F.

On September 19, 1676, three hundred and fifty years ago today, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown, the capital of the Virginia Colony.

According to the American Automobile Association, diesel hit its highest recorded average price today at just above $6.44 per gallon.

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Anthropic’s CEO says that AI companies must slow down for the good of humanity.

On Sunday, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternativ für Deutschland, or AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in a legislative election in the small state of Saxony-Anhalt, formerly part of ...

On September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade.

A number of pundits, especially Republican pundits, interpreted Trump’s win in 2024 as a permanent political realignment proving that post–World War II liberalism was dead.

One of our founding myths is that of George Washington and the cherry tree.

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that took place on August 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C., is remembered today primarily because it was the occasion when the final speaker, the Reverend Dr.

On Friday night, Prime Minister Mark Carney instructed Canadian negotiators to walk away from talks with officials from the Trump administration over new tariffs of 50% Trump had imposed on $28 billio...

Week Thirteen!

The political world has been consumed over the past few days with a Republican meltdown about Trump’s aide Natalie Harp.

On August 18, 1920, the Tennessee legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.

From Friday through Sunday, Trump continued his now-habitual weekend flooding of social media with fantasies that he is smart, beloved, and powerful.

“There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.”

Today the Trump administration asked the United States Supreme Court to let it build Trump’s ballroom where the East Wing of the White House used to be.

Remember when Mondays in August were lazy, quiet summer days?

On Tuesday, August 4, Erin Banco, Mike Stone, and Jonathan Landay of Reuters reported that the U.S.

On August 5, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a new tax to help fund the United States government during the Civil War.

Just before midnight last night, news broke that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had rescinded the order of May 18, 2026, establishing a $1.776 billion slush fund for those who claimed that the D...

Friday’s dismissal of the Department of Justice case against David Hearn for vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool came days after Hearn’s lawyers asked for transcripts of the grand jury p...

Sixty years ago today, on July 30, 1966, Medicare and Medicaid went into effect.

So, we didn’t exactly walk into a bar, but anytime Preet Bharara, Elie Honig and I get a chance to talk shop, it’s a good conversation.