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This is the story of two Republican doctor-senators named Bill.

One of them, as majority leader from 2003 to 2007, helped a self-described “compassionate conservative” Republican president pass a Medicare prescription...Read more

Here’s a brief news quiz.

Last week, a shooter opened fire at a Catholic church where students were celebrating Mass to mark the first day of school.

In what city did this happen? What was the name of the school? How ...Read more

Despite having lost an important federal lawsuit barring the use of the military for civilian law enforcement purposes, Donald Trump is still lawlessly promising to send troops into the streets of Chicago and other cities....Read more

Toward the end of her 2024 campaign, Kamala Harris made a big mistake. Having gained traction by talking about “joy” and “freedom,” she panicked and reverted back to apocalyptic warnings about Trump.

Today, those ...Read more

For Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Labor Day weekend spewed out an inconvenient truth: Nine people killed and 52 wounded in the most violent weekend of the Chicago summer.

Too many gunmen did...Read more

Constitutional protections don’t mean much if federal officials can violate them without facing consequences.

This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in United States Postal Service v. Konan. The immediate...Read more

The most-followed professional sports league on Earth is increasingly an American one, but it’s not the NFL, NBA or Major League Baseball. Despite their impressive strides in growing global audiences and reach, homegrown...Read more

The rich, to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, are different. In California, they lose a lot of very expensive, very high-profile political races.

Over the past 50-plus years, a half-dozen fabulously wealthy men and women �...Read more

Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the U.S. illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding.

The U.S. government violated Harvard�...Read more