In today's Front Page: How to fake climate science. Tyler Cowen on the AI scenario no one is talking about. Trump’s contempt for the fourth estate. Did Israel really win the Gaza war? Roland Fryer talks to Coleman Hughes. And more.
In key races from Arizona to North Carolina, Democrats are hammering Republicans for their votes on Epstein files
Trump’s mess has rekindled Yemen’s civil war and a years-long conflict between the Houthis and Saudi ArabiaWhen the US and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in late February, Tehran’s allies in the Middle East jumped into the fray. Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia fired rockets at Israel, while Shia militias in Iraq attacked US bases and…
House GOP investigators warn their ActBlue probe is far from over as new findings allege the platform green-lighted donations despite foreign red flags.
We’re missing an emotional architecture for change: how it feels to want a different future and believe we can reach it, writes Solitaire Townsend.
Climate change should be seen as a shared challenge to solve together, not a political debate, write Katharine Hayhoe and Dana R. Fisher.
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, is a Christian Zionist who believes that Israel is biblically entitled to all of the Holy Land. He’s pretty much the last person you’d expect to condemn Israeli conduct in the West Bank, where settlers have spent decades using a combination of construction, coercion, and outright violence to…
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump is expected to meet Gulf leaders in New York to discuss the next phase of the conflict with Iran and the shape of a postwar strategy. One question deserves attention before that meeting: What happens to Iran’s frozen assets? A legislative proposal already circulating among congressional offices addresses that question…
The Estonian city of Narva sits at the eastern edge of NATO, across a narrow river from Russia. For years, the city has served as the go-to scenario for anyone imagining how Moscow might test NATO’s Article 5 promise. Right now, though, the Russian side of the border is quiet because everything Moscow can field…
After a deadly wildfire tore through Maui in August 2023, community organizer Khara Jabola-Carolus set out to ask women how they were faring after the disaster. She teamed up with fellow community organizer Nadine Ortega to co-found Tagnawa, a grassroots recovery organization to meet the needs of Filipinos and other marginalized groups on the island.…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had barely reached the European Parliament podium in Strasbourg on Sept. 17, 2026, when German lawmaker Siegbert Droese shouted, “USA! USA!” Carney laughed. European lawmakers groaned and booed as if those three letters were an outright stain. Tehran stages that identical reflex before the crowd finds its traditional…
Democrat James Talarico holds a narrow advantage over Republican Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, but within the margin of error, according to a new poll, while Republican Gov.
The Vermont teachers union formally recognizes students’ right to play sports based on “gender identity,” rather than biological sex. The National Education Association Vermont chapter also asserts that the state’s public school teachers must acknowledge the nation’s “white supremacy culture” as responsible for “white privilege” that is “conferred…
If I said to you, “Quick, name three states with competitive Senate races,” I’m guessing you’d probably say Texas, Michigan, and Maine. Those are the three that get the most consistent media attention. Then, under those three, there are a number of races in red states where we know the Democrat either is generally ahead or has a realistic shot at…
“If something cannot go on forever,” the economist Herbert Stein once said, “it will stop.” A logician would scorn this as a tautology, but it’s a useful one for contemplating all sorts of problems that never seem to end. Some things that feel like they can’t go on may continue for a very long while. The subject of Stein’s famous comment (at a 1986…
Everyone, it seems, is turning on Donald Trump these days. Two-thirds of Latino voters—a bloc that helped propel him to victory less than two years ago—now disapprove of his presidency. He has a 44-point deficit with young voters, another group he performed surprisingly well with in 2024. After the debacle of last week’s faux Republican National…
