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This Pride month, as revelers hit the streets to celebrateLGBTQ history, Republican state legislatures are hard at work trying to eraseit....

With the coronavirus pandemic waning across the United States, a new government report has kicked up a surprising and groundbreaking health...

The Justice Department filed a major lawsuit to challenge Georgia’s controversial new voting law in federal court on Friday, alleging that s...

Barack Obama’s “all of the above” energy strategy is alive and well under his former vice president. In a legal brief on Wednesday, Presiden...

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion about voting rights with two Democratic members of Congress, d...

In 2006, a professional baseball player named Curt Schilling started a video game company. Schilling was probably most famous for a heroic p...

It was all Britney’s idea. The 16-year-old singer had just recorded her first album and was about to shoot her first music video with Nigel...

During infrastructure negotiations, Republicans have been eager to frame any and all green spending as a wasteful add-on that picks winners...

Asked whether he’d gotten a Covid-19 vaccine, Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently dodged with a saucy nonanswer. “When was the last time y...

The last cut on Janis Joplin’sfinal album, Pearl,was the chillingly apt, “Get It While You Can.” More than a half centuryafter the death...

Melekh Bibi—King Bibi—has beendethroned. Usurped by his former deputy, Naftali Bennett, in early June,Netanyahu was finally dealt an elect...

Eric Adams is not yet—at least officially—the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, but the takeaway from his strong showing in the ci...

On Tuesday, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland revealed at the National Congress of American Indians’ annual midyear conference that the federal...

When a group of California farm owners in the San Joaquin Valley sought to stop union organizers from speaking with workers on their farms i...

Savvy guys like Matt Yglesias, the newsletter writer and former Vox and Slate blogger, sometimes critique bad political punditry by pointing...

This week, the Supreme Court struck a blow for the unpaid professional athletes who pretend to be amateurs so they can play on college teams...

“In case after case, we successfully prosecute traffickers, but we cannot pursue the websites that profited from the ads placed by these vil...

There are two ways to try to answer the question of who is Ghislaine Maxwell, the defrocked British socialite now sitting in a Brooklyn jail...

Kathleen SayVon had spent weeks hunting for a new place to live in 2018, sleeping in her car and showering at the gym, when she finally caug...

In the early 2000s, a man named Erb Avore started selling a male sexual enhancement supplement he called Stiff Nights. The pills were amazin...

The financial crisis that began in 2008 wasn’t great for Wall Street titans: regulators cracked down on them, protesters occupied them, and...

If you are ever so lucky as to find yourself talking to Erb Avore, your first question would likely be whether that is, in fact, his real na...

Speaking to reporters about the For the People Act, the Democrats’ signature voting rights bill, in March, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schu...

I’ve frequently criticized West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s approach to the filibuster. But I’m not blind to his unusual electoral situat...

When large numbers of people all watch the same thing, like the Olympics or a news channel, it binds them together into what Benedict Anders...