Politics

Plus: Israel votes and Bibi defies the polls once again.

Morrissey’s ‘Isle of Dogs’ laments the loss of Olde England, the West, etc.

Richard Weaver’s most famous work applies to much of today’s political and cultural world.

Talarico's campaign accepted $3,000 from a celebrity Muslim preacher accused of grooming female fans for sham marriages and saying Allah will "let you get away with" wife-beating — under certain conditions.

Pope Leo XIV has cast his ballot in the 2026 midterm elections, making history as the first sitting pontiff to vote in a U.S. general election while drawing renewed attention to a series of consequential contests in his home state of Illinois. The Vatican confirmed Friday that the Chicago-born pope, who remains a U.S. citizen, ...

Anthony Zurcher explains how the results of the midterm elections could reshape the rest of Trump's presidency.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) amended a Biden-era regulation on Friday and clarified that feelings of gender dysphoria are not a physical disability. The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a final rule clarifying that gender dysphoria that is not caused by physical impairment does not qualify as a disability ...

US senators have asked Meta to explain how it's mitigating 'serious' privacy risks with its AI glasses.

Cities in France, Germany and Italy were bracing for mass demonstrations on Saturday, with thousands of people expected to take to the streets to protest high living costs and other grievances with governments across Europe.

Harris poll for Guardian finds 76% believe officials care more about self-enrichment than helping everyday Americans Government corruption has emerged as a top issue in the upcoming US midterm elections, with an overwhelming majority of Americans saying US government officials use their public office for personal financial gain, according to an exclusive Harris poll for the Guardian. Nearly nine out of 10 Americans said that government corruption, as defined as elected officials putting their own or their donors’ financial interests ahead of the public’s, is a problem, according to the survey. Continue reading...

Trump and Senator Dan Sullivan have put my home state on the chopping block. But Peltola understands Alaskans Donald Trump’s trip to Alaska earlier this month was a real doozy. Should I be surprised? The previous time he visited my home state, in August 2025, he ordered the US military to roll out a red carpet for Russia’s Vladimir Putin . The two billionaire oligarchs chummed it up and posed for cameras, then talked about the war in Ukraine and achieved no formal ceasefire and no peace agreement. Continue reading...

‘Even though economists warned that tariffs would be inflationary, Trump has enthusiastically embraced them’ Donald Trump successfully campaigned for his second term two years ago promising to reduce prices on day one , but ever since he returned to the White House, he has done little to fight inflation or reduce prices. Instead, some of his most important policy decisions – most notably his war against Iran and his tariff wars – have increased inflation instead of reducing it. This helps explain why more than one in five Americans who voted for Trump now disapprove of the job he’s doing. Even though economists warned that tariffs would be inflationary, Trump has enthusiastically embraced them during his second term. Indeed, the “ liberation day ” tariffs he imposed soon after returning to office increased the price of hundreds of goods, including citrus fruits , steel, bananas, beef and auto parts. When the supreme court overturned those tariffs as illegal, Trump immediately imposed new 10% across-the-board tariffs that again helped push up prices (a lower court found those tariffs unlawful, too ). Time and again, Trump has slapped on new tariffs even though they inherently push up prices because tariffs are a tax on imported goods. Little wonder that a Fox News poll this month found that 77% of Americans disapprove of how Trump has handled tariffs. Continue reading...

The RNC says Democrats recruited a second Dan Sullivan onto Alaska's Senate ballot to confuse voters as the DOJ intensifies its criminal probe.

The Game of Thrones prequel is a show about managerial leadership.

The Pennsylvania governor has more at stake Tuesday than other 2028 contenders.

Elon Musk and his business’s role in a recent dispute over Ukraine’s access to Starlink and its military network is putting a spotlight on the tech mogul’s outsized influence on the international stage.  Following about 10 days of confusion and finger-pointing over what caused the slowdown of Starlink and its military-grade version — Starshield — in Ukraine, Musk acknowledged his company, SpaceX, was behind the restrictions on Starlink’s…

For younger voters, election-related corruption is less of a concern than for older generations.  Four percent of Gen Zers say they’re worried about election fraud and cheating ahead of the midterms, compared with 14 percent of millennials, 21 percent of Gen Xers and 23 percent of baby boomers, per a CBS/YouGov poll. The results also…

The importance of AI data centers is growing this election cycle as the fight over the infrastructure’s costs and environmental impacts may be threatening Republicans in battleground states like Texas and Ohio. Grassroots movements in rural communities, particularly where President Trump won by double-digit margins in each of his presidential bids, are threatening the rural…

Democrats are weeks away from the start of the next presidential primary — a contest many in the party have been eagerly anticipating since their devastating loss in the 2024 race. But the divisions that could shape the 2028 race are already on full display, even as Democrats look to make gains in the House…