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The climate science chapter is gone from the judges’ manual. The scandal behind it is not. Controversy over the Federal Judicial Center’s latest edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence shows no sign of slowing down, even after both the FJC and its co-publisher, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, agreed to […]

Turkey has nominated a serious candidate for the top United Nations post, one which Feridun Sinirlioglu must not be allowed to hold. Selecting a Turkish U.N. secretary-general would transform the U.N. into a puppet show for Turkey’s authoritarian regime led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Given Ankara’s flagrant violations of international law, appointing Sinirlioglu would […]

Medical interventions require precise timing. A treatment administered too early might lack sufficient diagnostic data. A treatment administered too late will fail to alter the outcome. The late-stage foreign policy announcement represented an unprecedented eleventh-hour political intervention. In a hyper-polarized landscape, where the battle for control of Congress rests on razor-thin margins, we must analyze […]

Few, if any, major Democratic elected officials have navigated the politics of the past few years as deftly as Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA). Shapiro easily won three straight statewide elections in a state that voted for Donald Trump two out of three times, and elected a Republican senator, too. Shapiro is obviously smart. He probably […]

Jim Jordan is calling GOP colleagues about leading House Republicans as minority leader, potentially setting up a clash with Speaker Mike Johnson.

Janeese Lewis George won the Washington, D.C., mayoral race after Trump called her a "communist adherent" following her primary win earlier this year.

Democratic Socialists of America candidates won or led in two of three races on Tuesday, spanning Berkeley rent boards to congressional seats.

Democrats flipped seven Senate seats in a 2026 midterm referendum on Trump, ousting Susan Collins and defeating Attorney General Ken Paxton.

House Democrats will see a slew of new far-left lawmakers enter their ranks next year after Tuesday night's midterm elections.

James Talarico toppled Ken Paxton, and Gina Hinojosa unseated Greg Abbott as Texas delivered historic Democratic upsets in the 2026 midterms.

The two major candidates in Alaska's U.S. Senate race urged supporters to be patient as results began coming in late Tuesday, delivering rousing speeches and expressing confidence against the backdrop of the fallout from allegations of partisan tricks to recruit a candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent.

Washington is at risk of making the same mistake with Iran that it has made for nearly five decades: believing that enough economic pressure will eventually force the Islamic Republic to change its behavior. Recent reporting suggests that CIA Director John Ratcliffe has advised President Donald Trump to maintain a “no war, no deal” approach, […]