38+ min ago   (1129+ words) The socialists did not swallow the old Clinton Democrats; those Democrats were already gone. The primaries are over, and the November general election looms. Clinton-era Democratic politicos such as Rahm Emanuel and James Carville insist that Democrats have divorced themselves…...

3+ hour, 41+ min ago   (454+ words) ‘Shake off the aura’: Novelist Amitabha Bagchi on originality and borrowing in literary writing Flu shots prevent serious illness but why don’t many Indians take them? Why do anti-reservation ideologues love the creamy layer so much? Indonesia asks India to…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (880+ words) Home News Highlights Elections Trump wants to make this midterm year ‘special’ to avoid losing Republican control of Congress Republicans at their midterm convention know that history is not on their side this election season, but they are counting on…...

14+ hour, 51+ min ago   (208+ words) Jonathan Chait: “Donald Trump’s new promise to give a $5,000 check to every adult American citizen if Republicans win the midterm elections may be an effort to answer a variant of an age-old riddle: Can Trump devise a policy so ill-conceived…...

11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (28+ words) This week’s unprecedented Republican midterm convention in Dallas made the stakes explicit: Trump asks for November to preserve the …...

15+ hour, 35+ min ago   (621+ words) Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says President Donald Trump’s proposed $5,000 dividend for American adults would not be financed through taxpayer money or additional federal borrowing. Instead, Lutnick says the administration believes it can generate the money through alternative revenue sources, including…...

17+ hour, 41+ min ago   (30+ words) Politicians so often seem to think that much of our current situation is linked to what is happening now, without considering previous policies of theirs. September 12, 2026 — 9:00pm...

18+ hour, 56+ min ago   (329+ words) Welcome to this week’s historic edition of the Surge, here in our brand-new home. Do you like the imported marble floors and silk window treatments? We’ll tell ya, it was a real hassle getting those through the Strait of Hormuz....

20+ hour, 2+ min ago   (252+ words) After spending the morning at the Pentagon to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, President Donald Trump apparently had another attack on his mind in the afternoon — posting the 5-year-old video of him telling January 6, 2021, rioters to go home…...

1+ day, 46+ min ago   (764+ words) It was probably inevitable that the Right's economic populism would degenerate into promises of more government checks. Early in the week, the administration floated the idea of redirecting federal childcare aid so low-income married stay-at-home parents could get a $9,000 subsidy…...