The Kentucky House passed a sweeping crime bill Thursday that would impose tougher sentences for many offenses and place those committing their third violent felony in jail for life.

In delivering caucus and primary victories to former President Donald Trump, Republican voters seem poised to grant the wishes of Trump’s presumed opponent, President Joe Biden. The president and his party see Trump as an easy mark, or at least easier to beat than other Republicans. We hope, even at this late hour, the GOP […]

A group of conservative state lawmakers in Pennsylvania filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging three voting-related executive branch actions designed to boost voter registration, including a 2021 executive order by President Joe Biden.

The Republican National Committee is expected to consider a resolution next week to declare Donald Trump the party's "presumptive 2024 nominee," even though only two states have voted and the former president has nowhere near the requisite number of delegates to clinch the mantle.

Like most American Jews I know, I spent Oct. 7 scrolling through social media, listlessly pushing my toddler on a playground swing as I swiped between images of burning kibbutzim, fixing dinner to television images of a modern-day pogrom. Yet for all the horror of that day, I was not especially surprised that a group […]

Last week, a young woman who had worked at a web security company recorded the entire ordeal of her own process of being laid off. It’s an excruciating 20 minutes you can find online if you look. But don’t bother, frankly. It goes pretty much the way you expect it to. She demands an explanation […]

It is an act of vandalism that Poor Things, the Scottish polymath Alasdair Gray’s astonishing 1992 novel, even shares a title with Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’s atrocious reimagining of a book he didn’t understand. Gray decorated his works with Blakean visionary illustrations, and his 1980s masterpiece Lanark is as close to life-changing as novels get. […]

Readers of a certain age may recall when school overcrowding was a big worry. Throughout the 1990s, as the baby boomers became school parents — that is, as the millennials started flooding elementary schools across the country — students were moved into temporary classrooms erected on the playing field, and PTAs everywhere fretted about overpopulation […]