Category: North America

Heather Cox Richardson writes that the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus. CNN reports that the bottom could be falling out in Trump’s polls. […]

There is a persistent belief in certain corners of the tech world that complex social problems can be eliminated through computation. Right now, there are […]

For decades, the 200 Ngogo chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, lived what seemed a calm and normal existence. Males and females hunted together, groomed […]

Woke 2 is a shitpost. Woke 2 is a meme. You see it drifting by on the timeline, unexplained. Yet to this empty signifier great […]

Look at my Iran negotiator, dawg, we’re never getting through the Strait of Hormuz. Friend of the program Y. L. Al-Sheikh helps us understand the […]

As Israel manufactures a financial crisis in the West Bank, public schools are only able to teach three days a week.

Picture a candidate running for elected office who fits this description: He believes marriage should be between one man and one woman; He criticizes the […]

Republicans are at it again, and it’s hard to overstate how chilling this is and what it tells you about the direction people in this […]

The cynical Republican approach to election results is on full display in Virginia. After voters supported redrawing the state’s congressional map to counter Donald Trump’s […]

A story published a few days ago by VTDigger sparked my curiosity about the status of the extremely phallic Bennington Battle Monument, which I have […]

Americans tend to imagine that aversion to taxation is deeply rooted in our national political culture. Not so fast, Vanessa S. Williamson argues in her […]

By roughly three percentage points, voters in Virginia voted for a redistricting plan that will heavily tilt the congressional playing field toward the Democrats. With […]

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board tore to shreds the Trump Food and Drug Administration’s move to block lifesaving cancer research — a move so […]

The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it is expanding its sanctions regime, known as “Economic Fury,” against Iran on Tuesday, escalating the administration’s economic warfare […]

The Heritage Foundation, author of the Project 2025 roadmap guiding the second Trump administration’s legislative agenda, has a new policy platform chock-full of ideas that […]

Virginians approved a redistricting plan Tuesday that gives Democrats the edge in a gerrymandering race started by President Donald Trump. The redistricting, heralded by the […]

Todd Blanche is a known quantity in Trump World. He defended the president in the New York hush money case involving the adult film star […]

Two weeks ago, the Houston City Council enacted an ordinance clarifying the extent to which local police may cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. When police […]

As workers, we collectively understand the challenges we face best because we are the class that makes society run. And in turn, we can collectively […]

Over the past decade, liberals have developed strong defensive instincts. Courts are attacked; we defend judicial independence. Election officials are threatened; we defend procedural integrity. […]