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Al Pacino’s personal life has been a bit of a train wreck, but his new memoir leaves no doubt that acting has been the most important thing in his life.
Podcaster Joe Rogan said he remains hopeful that Vice President Kamala Harris will sit for an interview before next week's general election.
A poll released by StPetePolls.org shows an abortion-rights ballot measure falling short of the 60 percent needed to pass.
We know too much about it. It tends to make the electoral process less like a snapshot and more like a hockey game.
The Republican nominee’s fixation on The Atlantic follows a dark pattern.
If Trump wins the presidency again, conservatism will be homeless, a philosophy without a party, for at least a generation.
Kamala Harris' narrative paints Texas as a real-life version of 'The Handmaid's Tale,' a place where women have no rights and no freedom.
Iona Italia talks to Jack Despain Zhou (aka Tracing Woodgrains) about the decline of standards at Wikipedia as a result of the obsessive efforts of ideologically motivated editors.
Dayenu, a nonprofit group, is mobilizing Jews around a threat that organizers warn every walk of life on earth must confront: climate change.
AFP Action’s work on Senate, House and other races could end up helping Trump in spite of remaining at arm’s length from him and his election.
Republican activists say they have to water down the reality of their opponents' agenda in focus groups. ‘They just don't believe it's true. It can't be.‘
The Biden administration is awarding nearly $3 billion to boost climate-friendly equipment and infrastructure at ports across the country, including Baltimore, where a deadly bridge collapse killed six construction workers in March and disrupted E…
There should be no misunderstanding: What we witnessed over the weekend was a remarkable display of Israeli capability.
Nearly every team at The Times has some hand in election coverage. Journalists from the Styles, Culture, Business and National desks shared how they’re tackling the moment.
Victoria’s proposed hate speech legislation forces feminists to choose which is more important to them: the restriction of misogynistic speech, or the protection of their own political speech.
If Bezos is going to continue paying the Post’s bills, he’s going to insist that the paper start to change the way it does its work.
Helen Pluckrose has produced a practical guide to dealing with sticky workplace situations, alongside a clear intellectual account of social justice ideology.
The island’s Catholic archbishop also wrote a letter to Donald Trump condemning a racist comedy routine during his Madison Square Garden rally.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump leads Democrat Kamala Harris by 1 point in Michigan with one week to go before the election, according to a new Emerson College tracking poll released Tuesday.
Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon was released from prison Tuesday and will hold a press conference in Manhattan, one week before former President Trump faces Vice President Harris on Election Day.
What Musk’s opponents are really mad about is that the people he is turning out to vote support the First and Second Amendments, which they clearly do not.
The major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) operate on free licenses of public spectrum in exchange for requirements to serve the public interest.
The final Fox News Power Rankings for the 2024 presidential election makes changes to all four major race categories.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
The Democratic nominee's campaign hopes to turn media attention about Trump's threat to democracy into voter attention on his threats to their wallets.
Mr. Bannon, the combative right-wing strategist, said if Trump’s vote totals on Election Day look like 2020, he should once again declare himself the winner.
It’s more tempting than ever to ignore the election.
Much like Melania, the RBG PAC represents a Trojan horse full of bad ideas about human personhood. Don’t buy it. Get rid of it.
Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman said that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would be more "efficient and effective" as president compared to his first term eight years ago.
“Believe those who seek the truth,” André Gide once wrote, “doubt those who find it.” The same can be said of falsehoods.
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress.
Why the pivotal race for Wisconsin might come down to deep-blue Dane County
Early in-person and mail-in ballots have begun pouring in across the country, and the tally in each state reveals mounting voter enthusiasm.
Members of the French equivalent of the U.S. Secret Service inadvertently revealed their president’s whereabouts via the app.
Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.
At his Madison Square Garden rally, Trump’s argument was hate and fear.
The koozies and coffee mugs were a mistake.
The U.S. Postal Service is giving a critical warning to Americans looking to vote by mail in the 2024 presidential election.
In a speech in Washington where organizers are planning for up to 40,000 attendees, she will argue that she represents generational change. But her rival will remain at the spine of her case.
Iran is still engaged in plots to assassinate former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
There's a cost to staying glued to election coverage 24/7.
Left-wing Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner sued Elon Musk and his America PAC for ostensibly violating Pennsylvania's lottery system, which legal expert Cully Stimson said was "flimsy."
Faith leaders from multiple denominations on Monday shared their reactions to Vice President Kamala Harris' remarks about her prayer life and her campaign's broader effort to focus on faith and religion amid the final days before the election.
The media frenzy comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler is clearly contrived to thwart the peaceful transition of power.
The former first lady's incandescent speech on Saturday night in Michigan centered women's bodies and excoriated the man who gropes but won't protect them.
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
One month after the hurricane, more than a third of North Carolina voters and more than 40 percent of Georgia voters have cast their ballots.
The key races in 2024 and what we know about election results timing in each state, according to the Associated Press.
Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
Every financial and media titan who does not fall in line behind the ‘resistance’ is another crack in the full-spectrum coalition against Trump.
Reader mail on classic vehicles and more.
Kamala Harris's campaign faces declining polls and Catholic voter backlash, raising doubts about her leadership.
A business-communications coach reflects on the connections between her college-era Marxist beliefs and the identity-based fixations that have come to dominate her industry.
The state has quite a crop of young, talented Democratic leaders—who face tough odds of ever moving up in politics.
Fareed explains why AI's massive energy demands are straining the power grid, but also why AI could enable big breakthroughs in sustainability and clean energy.
If CBO projections are wrong and interest rates end up 1 percent above the projected baseline over a decade, for three decades in a row, things could get uglier.
It is now more likely than not that humans will reach Mars, which will transform life on this planet and beyond.
After months of ignoring Snapchat, Donald Trump’s campaign has begun using the platform, urging people to vote by promoting a viral clip of him flashing a thumbs-up at a somber memorial service.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
The former president is psychologically preparing Americans for an assault on the electoral system.
His allies now claim that he wouldn’t really impose massive global tariffs if elected. But the uncertainty created by threats is bad enough.
The novice Republican candidate’s honesty has come into question in a race that could decide Senate control.
Notwithstanding the opinions of her critics, the vice president could not be doing more to make her case to the American people.
Vice President Kamala Harris, a former US senator from California who previously served as the state's attorney general, could be the first Black woman and Asian American to lead a major party ticket after receiving President Joe Biden's support t…
A detailed look at the past year of war between Israel and its adversaries, as the battleground has shifted from Gaza to Lebanon and now to Iran.
Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
Democrat Sarah McBride is expected to make history next week as the first openly transgender person elected to the U.S. Congress.
The former president’s years-long effort to deny the credibility of election results and cast his opponents as dangers to the country has been very successful.
EXCLUSIVE: A Somali American woman in Minnesota, who was shot by an assailant ultimately released with the help of a bail fund supported by Vice President Kamala Harris, is speaking out against the vice president.
Five former House Republicans threw support behind Republican Rep. Scott Perry's Democratic challenger, Janelle Stelson, in the Pennsylvania House race.
January 6 was a moment of clarity for the Republican Senate leader about the threat of Donald Trump. It didn’t last.
Monday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, and here on our website -- Carl Cannon, Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Phil Wegmann break down what Trump and his al…
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
In the wake of the Republican National Convention earlier this month, Fareed speaks with historian Niall Ferguson about how and why the modern-day GOP has changed since the Reagan era of the 1980s.
Former President Donald Trump called attention to alleged voter registration fraud in Pennsylvania.
Boris Johnson got a couple of critical things right, but he never could or would have become a good prime minister.
A mayor of a small village in Ohio is sounding the alarm about an influx of migrants into the village, where they have put pressure on services and finances.
An afternoon outside the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden
Former President Donald Trump told ABC News on Tuesday that he did not hear the off-color comments by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at his Sunday evening rally at Madison Square Garden.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom weighed in on the Democrat versus Democrat U.S. House race in California's 16th Congressional District, expressing support for state Assemblymember Evan Low.
Billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg became the second-largest individual donor to the Vice President Kamala Harris campaign after George Soros, following a reported $50 million donation to the main super PAC fu…
This year is nothing like 2020, and a collective sense of resignation might make all the difference.
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Lale Gül’s autobiographical novel about a young Muslim woman living in the Netherlands has led to death threats and ostracism. But it is a work of admirable intelligence and courage.
Vice President Kamala Harris remains one point over President Donald Trump, by 48% to 47%, in a race that remains in a statistical tie as Election Day draws closer, according to Tuesday's daily TIPP Poll.
In former President Donald J. Trump’s third campaign for the White House, his speeches have grown coarser and coarser.
The Democrat from Pennsylvania finds himself in the fight of his political life.
The former president seemed to delight in fueling speculation about what he is cooking up with House Republicans, prompting Democrats to worry about election fraud. Speaker Mike Johnson refused to explain.
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With business ties to foreign governments and holdings in industries overseen by federal regulators, Donald Trump would likely be the most conflicted president in U.S. history.
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
Todd Phillips’s unfairly reviled sequel raises interesting questions about the artistic licence auteurs take with well-known properties.
An analysis of thousands of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts reveals that the former president directly promoted false conspiracy theories in at least 330 instances and amplified at least 145 conspiracists.
Democrats are trying to "destroy" former President Donald Trump's personality with the claims they are making about him, Rep. Andrew Clyde told Newsmax on Tuesday.
FEC Commissioner Trey Trainor told Newsmax on Tuesday that there should be changes in the election process in some states as "mail-in balloting is always rife with all sorts of fraud and abuse."
Kamala Harris' lead over Donald Trump dwindled in the final stretch of the U.S. presidential contest, with the Democrat ahead by a single percentage point over the Republican 44%-43%, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published Tuesday.
An official within the Department of Homeland Security told colleagues that Beijing could “target" Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in order to exert influence on U.S. policy.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Although Donald Trump has opposed policies that favor electric cars, if he becomes president he could ease regulatory scrutiny of Tesla or protect lucrative credits and subsidies.