Don’t expect Leo XIV to be merely progressive or conservative.

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Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

Dismissing evidence that a politician might be unfit for office is as much a mistake for the right as it was for the left.

Yet the Government Accountability Office estimates that the government loses roughly $50 billion to $100 billion a year to ...

After 19 months of war in Gaza, the Israeli government has decided to march deeper into the quagmire.

Reading about sycophantic AI, I’ve been struck by how it mirrors another problem. As I’ve written previously, social media ...

And yet, the conclave that concluded today in Rome has chosen the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church: ...

One indicator about the health of the nation is how many lower federal judges a regular news consumer can name—and reel off ...

India and Pakistan are fueling each other’s extremism without an off-ramp in sight. The conflict between India and Pakistan ...

Fortunately, more reliable sources than DOGE’s self-reported figures exist. The best is the Treasury Department’s monthly ...