Move aims to flip five Democratic-held house seats to Republican control in next year’s midterms

Evan Osnos shows how social media is at the core of Republicans’ drive to destroy human empathy with maximum misinformation and minimum civil discourse

I find myself packing pepper spray again

DC mayor strikes conciliatory note but other Democratic leaders warn president against expanding law-and-order power grab

Decision to dispatch National Guard welcomed by supporters; others suspect operation is attempt to deflect questions about Epstein

State governor calls for arrests after exodus of Democratic lawmakers seeks to block Republican Bill that would redraw electoral districts

Once an advocate of US soft power, the secretary of state is implementing Maga values from isolationism to impatience with foreign aid

The passage of the Bill leads to massive, ugly tax cuts for American aristocrats

Frances Ballantyne, an Irish-American who was 94 when we became friends in New York, rubbed shoulders with Kathy Bates, James Baldwin and local wiseguys, but these were mere side notes in a rich life

Critics on the left and the right have taken issue with the effects the Bill will have on the US’s already considerable national debt

He managed to motivate tens of thousands of canvassers to knock on more than a million doors

The United States’ official puritanism sits uneasily with a wider nation that can be more creatively profane than any other in the Anglosphere

Politicians like Holly Cairns or Keir Starmer could meet the threat of the populist right with a lighter tone and a joke or two

Socialist candidate (33) upsets Andrew Cuomo with clever campaign promising rent control

Socialist challenger has come from nowhere to rival Andrew Cuomo in New York’s mayoral race

The former opponent of forever wars in the Middle East is debating dropping bombs there without military provocation against the US

Vance Luther Boelter (57) identified as suspect who allegedly killed Democrat and her husband

Authorities are searching for an assailant who officials say was impersonating a police officer and shot at officers

California senator handcuffed after attempting to ask Kristi Noem a question

I find it hard to understand how public opinion in America is not revolted by events such as the $200 million ‘gift’ of a jumbo jet that will become the president’s private property