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The standoff for control over the U.S. Senate ended Monday with GOP leader Mitch McConnell declaring victory, even though he failed to secur...

While it remains unclear how Biden’s legislative agenda will take shape once coronavirus relief and impeachment have been dealt with, one it...

The historian JoanWallach Scott started thinking of the judgment of history when theCharlottesville riots took place in 2017. The appearan...

With the release of the drama Ammonite, paleontology has joined palace intrigue and oil painting on the list of surprising provocations to l...

For one ever-so-fleeting moment after the Capitol Hill riot earlier this month, it looked as if the GOP might take decisive action against D...

After a year of mounting pressure from investors and outside critics, Leon Black, the billionaire chief executive of private equity giant Ap...

“Do you think we’ll ever use unpaid interns?” a friend once asked while we were being used as unpaid interns. It was 2011, in the thick of t...

The oil industry spent much of Joe Biden’s first week in office publicly squawking in protest. The American Petroleum Institute called his d...

Two and a half weeks ago, something terrible happened to Senator Josh Hawley. Something not only fundamentally opposed to American values bu...

For the vast majority of North Carolina’s ten-million-plus residents, there is only one option if they’d like to heat their home, turn on th...

Volcanic protests erupted across Russia in the first weekend of Joe Biden’s presidency, adding the challenge of Putinism under duress to the...

Donald Trump wants back on Facebook, and he’s willing to go to court over it. Except in this case, it’s a strange kind of judicial authority...

In the days immediately following the publication of the not-exactly-positive review of Netflix’s Emily in Paris I wrote for this very websi...

In the mid-1940s, Edmund S. Morgan, a mild-mannered younghistorian, was teaching at Brown and making a name in the quiet field of earlyAme...

By 1961, Charles Koch had stacked up three engineering degrees and was back home in Wichita, Kansas, to join the family business of oil refi...

A good rule of thumb over the past five years is that if something strange can happen, then it probably will happen. One of those strange th...

“His position has not changed,” White House press secretary Jenn Psaki said Friday when asked whether the president thought the Senate shoul...

On Wednesday, Will Wilkinson, a New York Times contributor and vice president at the center-right think tank the Niskanen Center made a joke...

On Tuesday, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule—the Trump Administration’s attempt to relax (or rath...

A Democratic president just entered the White House, so it’s time for Republican state officials to start discussing secession once again. A...

With 400,000 dead from Covid-19 and the nation still reeling from the raid on the U.S. Capitol, an odd corner of the internet has emerged to...

Just how low has the bar been set for the Biden administration? Look no further than the reaction to new press secretary Jen Psaki’s first d...

Energy was high, and the night air was cold, so people were dancing. The music switched between Anuel AA and Pop Smoke, while Teamsters wear...

There is now a new most powerful person in the United States: Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. With the Senate evenly split, Manchin, a...

Donald Trump’s final speech, at a kind of half-hearted miniature rally, ended on a fitting note. “Have a good life,” a dejected and petulant...