In this week’s issue, you’ll read some of the reporting and observations I took away from a big political confab in Austin, ...

Plus: Jack Smith defends charging Trump before a Senate panel, consumer confidence falls to its lowest level since 2014, and ...

At the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s recent retreat in Sea Island, Georgia, NRSC pollster Erik Iverson insisted that every incumbent GOP senator will be reelected and that Republicans are ...

Uthmeier’s action raises important points about transparency and safety at AI companies, but “as a question of law, the ...

Inconsistent statements from the Pentagon keep congressional Democrats and others guessing about the prospect of troop deployment at voting spots in November.

If Democrats do indeed win a majority in the House and—the possibility seems more real by the day—the Senate, too, then all of the ones who promised on the campaign trail to prioritize their own ...

It’s a distant memory now, but the president spent a meaningful part of the summer of 2025 reprising the scene from The Naked ...

Plus: the Trump administration loosens Biden-era fuel economy standards, a prosecutor reopens a Cornell fraternity rape investigation, and if you’re going to keep a saltwater crocodile, make sure to ...

Despite the president’s counterproductive bluster, the new agreement is better than the 1951 accord that preceded it.

A Jewish History is the presentation of a worldview so narrow that Judaism has to be pared down considerably in order to fit ...

The Trump administration’s visa restrictions have made a coveted place at a U.S. university unattainable for certain foreign students.

Benjamin Netanyahu in New York and Donald Trump with Xi Jinping both forgot that a leader represents his country, not himself ...