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Our Best Stuff on Politics as the Midterms Draw Near

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Japan seeks US help to bring North Korean abductees home

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The hill I will die on: not everything is a ‘girl’ thing – stop gendering and infantilising it all

No, I don’t want to go for a girl walk before my girl dinner with my girl mates: I am a grown woman who walks and eats and votes – and, patriarchy, I am on to you

Why the Republicans Are About to Sweep the Midterm Elections

Clip and save this op-ed, because I may be the only person in the free world predicting that in the midterm elections next month, the Republicans are going to win and win big. They’re going to hold both the House and the Senate, and they’ll even increase their margins in both chambers.

Trump admits he has a 'public relations' problem

President Donald Trump has spent much of his political career blaming the media when voters sour on him. But with Republicans facing a difficult final month before the midterm elections, Trump is increasingly acknowledging a problem inside his own operation: He and his administration have failed to sell their record, even as the White House maintains that Trump remains its most effective messenger.

Universities are studying their problems, but can they fix them?

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A Nation Is More Than a Labor Market

On Sept. 18, the White House issued a fact sheet announcing an executive order renewing the $100,000 fee President Donald Trump first imposed on all newly issued H-1B visas last September.

Republican lawmakers distance themselves from Big Oil

Big Oil’s long-running alliance with the Republican Party faces a major roadblock as more GOP candidates, and President Donald Trump himself, back a temporary ban on diesel exports.

Prison chief in Christa Pike case oversaw five ‘botched’ executions, lawyers say

Frank Strada facing mounting questions after Pike survives injection with lethal drugs in Tennessee

A billionaire is one of Trump’s loudest critics. Will Democrats send him to the White House?

As the Illinois governor seeks a third term, his growing national profile has fueled speculation about a possible White House bid

While America debates who belongs, a Hindu and Jews just stopped a hijacking

While Americans argue about which religious minorities belong in our national life, a Hindu of Indian origin captain and Jewish Israeli passengers offered a more consequential answer: They helped keep everyone on board Flydubai Flight FZ1073 alive.

Trump's real October surprise: His last 'two weeks' in Iran lasted two days

Almost every signal from Washington says the same thing: nothing big happens in Iran before the midterm elections.