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Two truths and a lie: America is getting older, leading to an increasing number of older Americans relying on a shrinking labor force; American farmers are in trouble because of a shortage of talent and shrinking margins; ...Read more

We live in an age of both scientific miracles and superstition about science, increasing more or less in tandem. One year we’re creating novel vaccines that arrest a global pandemic, and four years later we’ve got ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court’s new decision gutting a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act clears the way for state officials to drastically reshape not only Congress but also state legislatures, county commissions, ...Read more

The global hierarchy of innovation is undergoing a structural shift that Washington is dangerously slow to acknowledge. For decades, the prevailing narrative in the United States was that China was merely the "world’s ...Read more

Within an hour of an armed man’s attempt to storm the White House correspondents’ dinner while President Donald Trump and administration officials were on stage last weekend, Steven Barber said he received 10 calls ...Read more

Anyone who has spent time in criminal court knows this: One of the characteristics of lawbreakers is a poorly developed sense of cause and effect.

At the low end, the folly of the defendants is always on display. The ...Read more

What a happy coincidence for House Republicans that the Supreme Court's conservative bloc found an excuse to help preserve their party's congressional majority, just in time for the 2026 midterm elections. Without the ...Read more

Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel ramped up his rhetoric this weekend, calling the current U.S. administration “fascist,” after President Donald Trump suggested, apparently in jest, that he could send a U.S. aircraft ...Read more

Democratic officials are drawing criticism after a surprising move to elevate a preferred candidate in California’s 22nd Congressional District with less than a month before the primary election.

The Democratic ...Read more

BOSTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Deaton and Democrat candidate Seth Moulton agreed Monday to an inter-party debate ahead of September’s primary — as incumbent candidate Sen. Ed Markey remained quiet on ...Read more

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alaska Legislature narrowly voted to sustain Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a sweeping elections reform bill Monday.

In a 38-22 vote, lawmakers fell two votes shy of the 40 votes needed to override ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took a first step Monday to consider anti-abortion challenges to medication that has been commonly used to end early pregnancies for 25 years.

The justices moved quickly to put on hold an ...Read more

As the nation observes its 250th birthday, historians can help settle one present-day dispute: Is the United States a democracy or a republic?

For years, advocates have argued the point.

Yet the question...Read more

Thursday marked 60 days since the start of Trump’s failed war in Iran. The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) gives Congress the power “To declare War,” and the War Powers Resolution of 1973 — enacted over ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on an appeals court ruling from Friday that was blocking remote access to an abortion drug, restoring access until at least May 11.

The administrative stay, issued by Justice...Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party was set to secure its first-ever election victory in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, expanding its support base across the country and bolstering his standing as the nation�...Read more

Colombians face a hard, familiar choice in this month’s presidential election: negotiate with violent criminals, or go back to war against them.

Voters must decide whether to continue President Gustavo Petro’s “...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Democratic campaign arm is adding eight more candidates in competitive districts – including several locked in messy primaries – to its list of contenders eligible for additional resources.

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Embarking on a second term about six months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority struck down the federal right to abortion, Gov. JB Pritzker declared in his January 2023 inaugural address that the new ...Read more