The hard-right Freedom Caucus is having a rough primary season.
Candidates with backing from the caucus and its allies flopped in primaries from Florida to Wyoming on Tuesday, adding...
Abdul El-Sayed says he wants to go beyond Bernie Sanders' public ownership model for a major American industry, calling for "some system of public control."
Two facts now sit in plain sight in the declassified record. Communist China entered the 2020 election with an integrated arsenal capable of shaping an American presidential contest. And officials inside our own intelligence community worked, in their own written words, to strip that intelligence of its election relevance, fragment it, delay it, and in […]
Three weeks from now, the War Department owes Congress a report that could matter far beyond the Pentagon. Section 1512 of the fiscal 2026 defense authorization law requires a comprehensive review of how the department secures artificial intelligence and machine-learning systems, with findings due by Aug. 31. The law asks for current practices, identified gaps, […]
Next month marks one year since Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while giving a speech at Utah Valley University. In the 12 months since, a bronze statue of Kirk has been sculpted for Times Square. Congress designated his birthday a National Day of Remembrance. More than 100,000 people attended his memorial at State Farm […]
Oldspeak Books opened in a converted chapel in the pretty Suffolk village of Long Melford in June 2025. Its founder, Joanne May, saw that her England and the wider West are beset from without and within, and she wanted to do something about it. Like George Orwell, who took his pseudonymous surname from a local […]
The federal government posted a $432.3 billion deficit in July, the biggest since March 2021, when then-President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus checks sent deficits, and then inflation, soaring. President Donald Trump does not have a global pandemic or a declared war to excuse this level of borrowing, and with our population aging, the deficit picture […]
Sometimes watching the two major parties compete in this year’s midterm elections brings to mind a quote from the legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel, which journalist Jimmy Breslin used to title his 1963 book: “Can’t anybody here play this game?” Democrats have a historic opportunity to seize control of both houses of Congress for the […]
To call Spider-Man: Brand New Day a movie is to do a disservice to all other examples of filmed entertainment that bear the name. As traditionally understood, a movie purports to tell a story to an audience whose ideal state is one of relative ignorance. Preconceptions, assumptions, and advance knowledge in the viewing public are regarded as […]
