Most teenage boys learn a difficult but vital lesson growing up, typically on a street, in a hallway, or on a playground. If you talk, let’s call it “smack,” you will invariably get hit at some point down the line. It makes sense that some politicians go through life never having learned this sometimes-violent lesson firsthand.

Vice President Kamala Harris may have shattered the so-called glass ceiling when she became the country’s first female vice president, but it hasn’t done much to help President Joe Biden’s perception among voters.

The battle over abortion pills is likely heading to the Supreme Court, whose ruling last year overturning Roe v. Wade has Democrats and abortion rights advocates nervous about another blow. The Justice Department has already said it will appeal a ruling from a federal appeals court Wednesday that said Mifeprex and its generic counterpart are...

Seniors, and not the high-school kind, are the fastest-growing population of cannabis users, a trend that illustrates what a long, strange trip the legalization movement has been. The share of over-65 Americans who have used marijuana nearly tripled in a decade, from 11 percent in 2009 to 32 percent in 2019, according to a respected...

Before the fires came, Southern California was ruled by giants. Thirteen thousand years ago, the lush coastal forest of what is now greater Los Angeles was patrolled by a menagerie of large mammals that have long since vanished from the continent. Dire wolves, camels, cave bears, bison and the great mastodon — all these creatures shared the...

President Biden will host the leaders from South Korea and Japan on Friday at Camp David, a profound signal of the seriousness the White House places on deepening ties with Seoul and Tokyo to shore up America’s security. The three democratic countries share grave, mutual concerns about China’s pursuit of domination in the military, technology, economic and diplomatic arenas,...

A growing number of Midwestern cities are declaring themselves safe havens for gender-affirming health care, often in direct defiance of laws passed by conservatives at the state level. While state legislatures across the Midwest are controlled overwhelmingly by Republicans, cities and metropolitan areas tend to lean more Democratic, driving some local leaders to introduce resolutions that distinguish the...

The Georgia indictment against former President Trump lists 30 unindicted co-conspirators, who are alleged to have aided in various efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. The individuals were not named or charged, but the list appears to include the remaining fake electors and others who communicated with Trump’s attorneys in the wake of the...

Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur seeking the GOP nomination for the 2024 presidential election, offered a list of 10 ideas that he said were true.