If the US wanted to be the world’s police officer, then why not try to be its doctor too? Just two months before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush announced an ambitious plan to pump $15 bi...
Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup may not be a 2034 World Cup at all. The tournament is unlikely to be played in the summer — and the calendar math could push it into 2035. FIFA has, of course, switched t...
The campaign finance arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is curtailing online contributions to House Democrats who voted to cut Israel aid this week, in the latest rift between the par...
Physicists have longed for a theory of everything, a single framework that would explain every force in the universe. After the better part of a century, they’re still looking. But social science, imp...
When Daniel Moraff showed up on Graham Platner’s doorstep last summer, the oyster farmer had a message for the young political operative who had traveled to the Maine coast to convince him to ru...
Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz is hopeful the Senate will be able to vote this month on his bipartisan college athletics legislation as he makes “minor modifications” to win support. The Texas Republi...
As if we needed one more thing to worry about so soon after the hantavirus scare, there is a new public health threat for Americans to contend with: a rapidly escalating outbreak of, of all things, di...
DALLAS, Texas — The World Cup was supposed to be Dallas’s moment to shine. The city is famously image-conscious, and the powers-that-be trumpeted the fact that more Cup matches were scheduled here tha...
Republicans are mourning the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham while grappling with his absence’s sweeping impact on their agenda. Funeral arrangements for the four-term South Carolina lawmaker h...
