Politics

America was never just an idea

The Declaration of Independence’s 250th birthday offers responsible American citizens a golden opportunity to reflect on what is distinctive about our nation and way of life. The anniversary has also led to a renewed debate on the Right.

‘They’re selling the safety of the traveling public’: TSA workers decry Trump privatization push

Union exploring options to oppose program that would put US airport screening into hands of private contractors

Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think

Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

The media said Trump was alone on Iran. A 72% landslide proves otherwise

By double-digit margins, America’s voters are strongly behind President Donald Trump’s determination to end the war Iran has been waging against us for the last 47 years. They want him to finish the job to ensure that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon with which to threaten us.

Chuck Edwards drops reelection bid after ethics report details sexual harassment claims

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) announced he will drop his bid for reelection, after an ethics report released this week detailed concerning behavior toward female staffers.

‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed

Exclusive: cases of Afghan man, Ukrainian man and Saudi woman show repeated nasogastric tube insertions and lack of legal representation

Nolan Wells went to an island with friends and never came home. His death has renewed debate over race and justice in Mississippi

Uncertainty around the investigation into the death of the 18-year-old, whose body was found after a 4 July boat trip with friends, has led some to question whether justice will be meted out equally

Why Trump is now looking beyond Yucca Mountain for storing nuclear waste

President Donald Trump’s efforts to ramp up nuclear energy capacity have raised the prospect of an increase in nuclear waste and drawn attention both to the failure of Yucca Mountain as a repository and to new alternative solutions.

What Happened to al-Qaeda?

Twenty-five years after 9/11, analysts can’t decide if the terrorist organization is all but defunct or more threatening than ever.

Himmler’s ‘anti-Nazi’ masseur: Claes Bang stars as SS chief’s ‘magic Buddha’

Felix Kersten, the personal therapist of Hitler’s principal enforcer, claimed to have saved countless lives from the Holocaust. A new feature film exposes him as a narcissist prone to myth-making

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

Ceuta and weapons of mass migration

“Almost all” of the more than 60,000 migrants who invaded the North African Spanish territory of Ceuta last week have been returned to Morocco, we are told, and a “reasonable normality” has been restored to the city of just 80,000.