The co-founder of a leading progressive group says Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faces a difficult challenge in winning back the trust of Democrats after his controversial support of a Republican funding bill that averted a government shutdown.
A woman who gained prominence after she took refuge in churches in Colorado to avoid deportation during the first Trump administration has been detained, immigration advocates said Tuesday.
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s offensive against federal waste, fraud, and abuse has exposed the antics of agencies whose acronyms had previously been known to few people, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, with its slew of transgender and diversity programs, and the National Institutes of Health, funder of sex changes for […]
China’s tech startup DeepSeek charged onto the scene earlier this year, roiling markets and becoming a household name practically overnight. The performance and design efficiency of the company’s open-source artificial intelligence chatbot took many investors, security analysts, and Western policymakers by surprise. Indeed, it left many scratching their heads and wondering: Do we need to […]
The College Board—the maker of the SAT—is amassing an army of lobbyists across the country for one purpose: not to improve student outcomes, increase college access, or even promote its own test. No, the College Board is trying to defend its often state-sponsored testing monopoly from an upstart competitor a fraction of its size called […]
I still call myself a feminist, though I’m getting close to the end of my rope in doing so. For me, what it means, and has always meant, is that I believe in basic equality for women: We can vote, own property, get paid equally to men for equal work if we choose that path, […]
Will President Donald Trump finish the job in 72 hours of shock and awe? Iran’s war against the West, primarily against the United States and Israel but also against every country aligned with either the “big Satan” or “the little Satan,” began almost as soon as the shah of Iran was toppled by its first […]
The announcement of a glitzy, profoundly ill-conceived new podcast by California Gov. Gavin Newsom should be met with a resounding groan by anyone serious about fixing the Democratic Party’s problems. If party leaders want voters to take them seriously on the long road to 2026, they’ll stop humoring ideas like this and focus on talking to actual Democratic voters.