“Knocking Myself Up” defies the conventional wisdom that pregnancy and parenthood are exhausting, expensive, and full of drudgery.

I won’t miss her politics, but I will miss her character.

Bari Weiss and other self-anointed defenders of free speech used the author’s stabbing to accuse the left of rhetorical excess—and ignored the very relevant scourge of book-banning by the American right.

Back in Minnesota, Emmer made his name as a fringe firebrand. Now head of the NRCC, he’s learned to mute his rhetoric—mostly—and is quietly climbing the ladder of House Republican leadership.

Incentivizing renewables is good—but this bill shows how desperately we need to build support for serious fossil fuel restrictions.

After the Mar-a-Lago search, Trump’s allies were swift to jump into the breach on behalf of the former president. Beginner’s mistake!

Rushdie’s vision of desi identity, unrestrained by colonialism and above the fray of sectarian cant, should inspire us as he recovers from his wounds.

Summer murders are a perennial problem that conservatives, despite their rhetoric, are uniquely ill-equipped to solve.

Yes, Build Back Better eventually became Build Back Manchin, but for Democrats, it’s better than nothing.

Democrats everywhere ran on climate in 2020. Now they’re practically running away from it.

Salman Rushdie has spent decades campaigning for free speech. The attempt on his life came amid a crack down on freedom of expression around the world.

Who will be the last person to die for Donald Trump’s mendacity?

Jamaal Bowman's new bill hauls an old tool out of a closet the U.S. hasn't opened in decades.

Last month, there was a deluge of hot takes about how Biden needed to bow out of the 2024 race for a range of reasons. Perhaps that standard should be more consistently applied.

Between Republican overreach on abortion and Congress finally passing bills, there's newfound confidence. But it's still the fundamentals that will matter most.

The right’s spent the better part of the week trying to paint the attorney general as a despot. Those charges won’t stick.

The stakes are highest in states where the legislature and the governor’s mansion are held by different parties. How much will abortion rights motivate voters?

CJ Hauser’s essay on an ill-fated love went viral. But there’s more than one way to see the story.

What would make the same paper-shredding-president opt to keep a safe with documents that might incriminate him in federal crimes?