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White rural Americans are a “racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay” authoritarian fifth column that poses an existential threat to our...
The kids are not all right — and the device you are probably reading this on is to blame. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In his...
Donald Trump has an abortion problem. The presumptive GOP nominee boasts an advantage over President Joe Biden on most of today’s most salient...
Joe Biden is swimming in cash, but short on voters’ support. The president has narrowed Donald Trump’s polling advantage in recent weeks but...
Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant. Roughly 53...
During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslim immigration to the United States, the targeted assassination of terrorists’...
The state of Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is weak. The president entered Thursday night’s State of the Union address with a 56 percent...
Donald Trump and Joe Biden are among the most unpopular politicians in their respective parties. And yet, both routed their competition in Super...
Since Barack Obama’s reelection in 2012, many conservatives have grown increasingly afraid of the republic they claim to love. That year,...
The United States needs more immigrants. But at the moment, it does not especially want them. The country’s fertility rate has fallen far below the...
The US economy has long displayed many signs of objective strength. Wages have been rising faster than prices for nearly a year. Unemployment has been...
Last week, House Republicans once again struggled to meet the most basic obligation of a governing party as roughly half its members effectively voted...
Voters in Iowa will head to the caucus locations on Monday, January 15, for the first contest of the Republican presidential primary, kicking off the...
For a brief moment in January 2021, it was possible to imagine that Donald Trump’s days at the apex of American politics were over. After all, the...
Over the holidays, extremely online progressives debated the most important theoretical question facing the American left today: Is grousing about the...
As the American public has grown more aware of our nation’s endemic police violence over the past decade, some on the left have called for slashing...
The past three months have witnessed the bloodiest slaughter of Jews since World War II and the largest mass killing of Palestinian civilians since...
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump is not eligible to appear on the state’s ballot. The logic of the decision is simple:...
Joe Biden’s poll numbers are abysmal. More than 55 percent of Americans disapprove of his job performance, according to FiveThirtyEight’s polling...
The world’s leaders formally committed Wednesday to “transitioning away from fossil fuels.” In the 28 years since the United Nations began...
As Israel’s devastating bombardment of Gaza grinds on, debates over antisemitism in America have grown louder. In recent days, Congress has taken...
Blue America is an increasingly affluent nation. In every presidential election from 1948 to 2012, white voters in the top 5 percent of America’s...
The American economy is growing at a historically rapid clip. Unemployment is near record lows, while job satisfaction is at an all-time high. Real...
After a weeklong truce, Israel is once again bombing Gaza. The proximate cause of this resumption of violence was an alleged cease-fire violation by...
The American economy is growing at a 5.2 percent rate. Unemployment is near record lows, while job satisfaction is at an all-time high. And wages have...
Earlier this month, someone posted an antisemitic diatribe on Elon Musk’s social-media platform. The X user in question argued that Jewish...
Donald Trump is on pace to win back the White House next year on the strength of his anti-inflation message. Which is a little odd, since the...
Sam Harris is among America’s most prominent critics of fundamentalist thinking. The “new atheist” podcaster, meditation guru, and erstwhile...
The American economy is the envy of the Western world. Our nation’s economy grew at a nearly 5 percent annualized rate last quarter. The...
Israel’s campaign in Gaza has already claimed the lives of an estimated 10,000 Palestinians. Hamas is still holding more than 200 souls hostage,...
Two decades ago, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira predicted that the Democratic Party was on the cusp of securing political dominance. In The Emerging...
Debates over Israel’s policies have always been plagued by antisemitism and specious allegations of the same. This is especially the case in the...
Israel’s campaign against Hamas has already killed thousands of Palestinian civilians and dozens of relief workers. Its siege of the Gaza Strip has...
Earlier this month, Hamas militants butchered 1,400 Israeli Jews, thereby proving conservatives are right about everything. Or so argues Konstantin...
An explosive fell on the parking lot of a hospital in Gaza City Tuesday, killing a large number of Palestinians. Hamas attributed the blast to the...
Less than two weeks ago, Hamas militants entered Israel and murdered 1,400 people, the vast majority of whom were civilians. They killed entire...
The legality of a war effort under international law hinges on two primary criteria. The first concerns a military campaign’s ends: States are...
America’s global power is long past its zenith. China’s sprint into industrial modernity has eroded our nation’s economic preeminence, while...
This weekend in Israel, a far-right Islamist group perpetrated the largest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust, murdering entire families,...
During the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden vowed that “not another foot” of the wall on America’s southern border would be built if he became...
Early Monday morning, 32-year-old Ryan Carson was stabbed to death at a bus stop in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. He and his...
During Barack Obama’s first term, a bipartisan consensus held that America faced a looming debt crisis. As the Great Recession eroded tax revenues,...
Tim Scott and Nikki Haley don’t seem like they’re one electoral defeat from hawking snake-oil supplements on a podcast monitored by the Southern...
As Joe Biden’s police state locks up conservatives for the crime of fearing God (and/or mounting one teensy insurrection) while drag queen...
Joe Biden became the first president to ever walk a picket line on Tuesday as he rallied striking autoworkers in Michigan. Joe Biden at UAW picket...
Last Friday, the Republican Party’s presidential front-runner suggested that America’s top general deserves to die. In a post on Truth Social,...
The United Auto Workers are striking all three of America’s major automakers — General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis — simultaneously for the...