This November, we could get a rather surreal closing chapter to the story of Biden and his hero. 

There is growing concern that this year’s elections could lead to — or even be decided by — political violence.

Biden could have, might have, should have settled for one term. But he did not.

The Supreme Court issued four rulings Thursday and will unveil more today. But the most closely watched and anticipated opinions remain behind the court’s curtain until next week or early July. Metal barricades lined the streets outside the court Thursday, a sign of added security in a section of the nation’s capital accustomed to demonstrators,...

Three drag superstars will lobby House lawmakers on both sides of the aisle next week to advocate for greater protections for LGBTQ people and fight against a rising tide of hate and threats made against the community. Drag performers Jiggly Caliente, Brigitte Bandit and Joey Jay will meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, part of a...

The Republican gubernatorial primary in Missouri is an open contest with a plurality of voters undecided on who they want to succeed term-limited Gov. Mike Parson (R), according to a new poll. The survey from Emerson College Polling/The Hill released Friday showed Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft narrowly in the lead with 23 percent...

Artificial intelligence will give us richer lives and shorter working days. I might have said the same about all previous technological advances, though they, too, were decried at the time as harbingers of mass unemployment. In the event, they all elevated the human condition for the same reason that AI will. Let’s leave aside, for […]

After decades of war, the United States is pivoting away from the Middle East, gearing itself for great power competition with China and Russia. But recent events bring to mind Al Pacino’s famous line from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” And […]

On Sept. 24, 1950, journalist Edward Hunter published a sensational report in the Miami News about the indoctrination techniques used by Soviet and Chinese communists. In it, he coined the term “brainwashing,” a loose translation of phrasing he claimed to have heard used by Chinese prisoners of war captured in Korea. He followed the article […]

Mankind invented baseball in the 18th century, and the two major baseball leagues created Major League Baseball in 1903. It wasn’t until 1931 that God made the perfect baseball player, Willie Howard Mays. A few weeks past his 20th birthday, Mays made his major league debut for the New York Giants in Philadelphia’s Shibe Park. […]