Senate Republicans aim to remove taxes on guns in Trump's "big, beautiful bill," while Democrats plan to challenge "ideological trophies" through Senate rules.

An appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids.

Summer is just dawning, but America’s pastime is already in full swing — not baseball itself, but the long-standing tradition of lamenting its death at the hands of ruthless corporate modernity. This week’s inciting incident was the Boston Red Sox trading homegrown slugger and World Series champion Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants, something […]

Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics dislike Milton for his anti-Catholicism, Anglicans dislike him for his nonconformity, monarchs dislike him for his republicanism, republicans dislike him for his religiosity, and feminists dislike him for his supposed misogyny. Samuel Johnson captured the […]

“You are welcome in Egypt!” Shouted nearly everyone to me when I was there last week. I was in the country for about 10 days, traveling around with my godson. He’s a tall, sandy-haired American guy — all smiles and radiating a warm openness — so maybe that’s what inspired the welcome greetings.  Either way, […]

According to isolationists on the Left and Right, Israel’s recent attack on Iran is an escalation or the opening salvo in a “new” war between the nations.  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) posted on June 16, “Netanyahu started this war by attacking Iran.” President Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon said the same thing, claiming on […]

California governor responds to court allowing Trump to control National Guard troops in Los Angeles, emphasizing the ruling rejects presidential immunity from review.