Exports of U.S. distilled spirits fell markedly in the second quarter of 2025 compared to last year, a lobbying group said Monday in a report that sounded the alarm about trade tensions under President Trump.
Democrat Amy McGrath, a retired Marine aviator, on Monday entered the Senate campaign in Kentucky, vowing to be a "bulwark against authoritarianism" in launching a comeback bid after being trounced by Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell in 2020.
The head of a nonpartisan agency tasked with finding a prosecutor to take over the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others is asking for more time after a judge set a two-week deadline for that appointment to be made.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on television advertising in select metro areas around the country, an Associated Press tally found, aimed at recruiting local officers frustrated with their cities' restrictions on immigration enforcement into President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts.
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. Lawrence Krauss, a renowned theoretical physicist and outspoken atheist, is not […]
In the world of opinion journalism, you’ve got to be wary of arguments meant solely to churn out clicks, reactions, and responses by throwing a rhetorical cat into a crowd of rhetorical pigeons. Most of the time, it’s best to ignore these traps and get on with your life, but every now and again, something […]
The Internal Revenue Service wields one of the most intimidating powers the federal government possesses: the ability to audit any American at any time. This is a power that can upend lives, cripple businesses, and tarnish reputations, not through conviction in a courtroom but through the mere process of scrutiny. Such immense authority demands impartiality […]
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in Chiles v. Salazar, a case challenging Colorado’s ban on certain forms of counseling for youth experiencing gender dysphoria. The stakes couldn’t be higher for vulnerable young people and their families. We make unlikely co-authors. Tyler Deaton leads American Unity Fund, which advocates for LGBT rights within […]
Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for attorney general in Virginia, fantasizes about murdering Republicans and their children and urinating on their graves, we recently learned. We only know what Jones texts to one state lawmaker, and so we don’t know the breadth of the folks he would like to kill and exactly what sort of […]