Senate Republicans have confirmed Trump’s least qualified Cabinet nominees—and given up their role as an independent check on ...

The first was a speech from Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth at the 50-nation meeting of the Ukraine-defense-support group.

Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its ...

Even European home waters were named by sailors after their destination. The Irish Sea was the route from England to Ireland; ...

Online life changed the way we talk and write—then changed it again, and again, and so on, forever. This is an edition of ...

Their concerns proved prescient, and today, Scattered Castles remains segregated from OPM’s systems—fortunately, given recent ...

Ivan Oransky is editor in chief of the Transmitter, a journalism professor at New York University, and a co-founder of Retraction Watch.

The key criteria for those in the top-tier positions appear to be loyalty, wealth, and ideological fervor, not competence.

Last month, the night the Eaton Fire broke out, Charlie evacuated to his girlfriend’s house. And when he came back, the ...

The good news, such as it is, is that the administration doesn’t yet seem to have taken the plunge. The bad news is that this ...

As a politician, Trump positioned himself as standing above the corruption of the system. That pose was also a way of ...

The fact that one can do so anyway in a setting of the highest stakes, while stating truthfully that the work originated in a ...