The public is flying more than ever, and the large, rapid increase is creating some problems. Airport infrastructure isn’t up to snuff in many cities (some Miami passengers will be walking a mile to their gate thanks to a downed airport train), staffing problems plague airlines and airports, and also, crowded planes and new fliers are leading to clashes over norms and etiquette.

In a rather gimmicky final question in the second Republican presidential primary debate, moderator Dana Perino asked candidates to name one other person on the stage who “should be voted off the island.” They mostly declined to answer, but there is an important point at the heart of the question.

These days, Democrats and Republicans seem to hate each other so much that when not attempting to incarcerate each others' principal political leaders, they can't come to a simple agreement to fund the government that employs them. What unites Washington is almost always more fascinating than what divides it, and thus, it is perhaps the most significant accomplishment of his entire career that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) singlehandedly cajoled the Senate into passing a unanimous formal dress code written by the two villains of their own parties, Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Joe Manchin (D-WV).

When the third GOP presidential debate takes place on Nov 8., the first primary contest will be two months away. That means only serious candidates should be on the stage, and that the Republican National Committee’s current polling threshold is still too low.

WHAT NEXT AFTER MESSY, CHAOTIC GOP DEBATE? The Republican presidential race is a bunch of challengers chasing former President Donald Trump. The second debate of the campaign, held Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, was supposed to help clarify, and perhaps rerank, the status of those challengers. It didn't. Instead, it left the field of Trump's opponents in greater disarray than before.

In 1915, Armenia suffered a genocide that killed anywhere from 50% to 80% of its population. It then endured an occupation by the Soviet Union that lasted almost a century. Now, the unrecognized Armenian area of Nagorno-Karabakh has collapsed under Azerbaijani force of arms.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) told reporters Thursday that he would support a resolution to expel embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) from Congress but such a measure would need 67 Senate votes to succeed. Fetterman also said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) should call on Menendez to step down from office after federal prosecutors accused...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Congress is deadlocked in a spending fight as a government shutdown looms at the end of the week. But just in the nick of time, Senate leaders from both parties come together and broker a deal to prevent a shutdown: all we have to do is ignore...

A federal judge in New York has rejected FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s attempts to stay out of jail pending his upcoming trial on fraud charges. Bankman-Fried’s attorneys argued that he should be released on bail during the trial to better allow him to prepare with lawyers. While the judge shot down the idea, he extended...

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) told Senate Democrats during a private lunch on Thursday that he will not resign from his seat despite more than half of them calling for him to do so, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said. “He will not resign,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told reporters after exiting, adding that Menendez told members...