Opinion

For years, the playbook was simple. Wrap a sales tax in the language of crisis, line up the labor endorsements, outspend the opposition 10-t...

California’s slow ballot count isn’t just a political disgrace. It’s also a symbol of how California does everything: late, if at all.

Captain Victor Glover — born, raised, and educated in California — made history this year as the first black person to orbit the Moon, when...

Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown contrasts the White House’s “restrained” AI vision with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “frighteningly authoritarian vis...

Should they sweep in 2028, Democrats are vowing they'll push the American constitutional order past an event horizon from which it will neve...

NY Post readers discuss CBS firing “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley after he claimed the new boss is “murdering” the show.

Editorial: The Russian leader has now been shown up by Kyiv on the battlefield, in the skies, and in the sphere of diplomacy – and Moscow’s...

Pride in being an American drops the younger you get, a new Quinnipiac poll confirms — a fact that confirms what a terrible job older genera...

Darializa Avila Chevalier isn’t “interested in relitigating the politics” of social media posts she made way, way back in the mists of 2020...

COVID-19 caused a catastrophic breakdown of public trust. Blame the partisan health officials whose top priority was furthering their politi...

A small city in Westchester County has already figured out how to jump-start housing construction — and has managed to lower rents in the pr...

Running a restaurant is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done — and I say that as someone who loved it, every day. The margins are razor...

There are cracks in the foundation of labor support for the California “billionaire tax” headed for the Nov. 3 ballot. 

California’s system of voting is absurd.

When did progressives become so obsessively afraid of the future?

Judy Chu, a Democrat who has been in Congress for 17 years, faced a straightforward question in the House Ways and Means Committee hearing t...

NY Post readers discuss a friend of Ross Falzone’s who blames his death on failures in New York’s justice system.

After three months of intermittent war, we see the realities of the conflict: Iran does not regard overwhelming military defeat on the battl...

In a geography where having a trans child has a tinge of chicness to it, one has to wonder: Is this partially due to social contagion?

Our writers weigh in on whether Reform or Labour came out on top in the BBC Question Time debate – tell us what you thought below

Socialist streamer Hasan Piker blamed disappointing results in the California primary elections on supposed "homo-fascism" in the Golden Sta...

Editorial: The Brexit arguments of 2016 belong to the past. The challenge now is to develop a realistic new partnership with Europe that str...

California takes forever to count ballots. And there's no excuse.

As The Independent launches Europe: The Way Back, readers remain split over Brexit’s legacy and Britain’s future in Europe, but agree the co...

The California primary is (mostly) over. Even though California will keep counting ballots for a month, some dynamics are already clear.  

Democrats' welcome to the anti-Israel left has grown so bad that they've now tapped the next worst thing to al Qaeda associate for a safe Ho...

Now anyone can get their very own anti-aircraft weapon — courtesy of Russia and its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

My stalker won’t scare me off the 6 train — or keep me from calling out Zohran Mamdani’s tacit support for antisemitic radicalism around the...

We are a decade on from the Brexit referendum – but the UK is still divided. That is why we are launching a new editorial campaign. It is ti...

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