The Congressional Budget Office estimates that roughly 750,000 federal employees could be furloughed each day of a shutdown, with the total daily cost of their compensation at roughly $400 million, ...

Some believe politics is about division: dividing voters, dividing voices, dividing people who don’t fit a mold. I believe differently. Politics, when it’s done right, is about multiplication.

It’s astonishing how quickly the world finds its moral compass when it wants to. Some causes, it seems, are destined for grand declarations at the U.N. and trending hashtags. Others, like the Turkish ...

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By the 1930s and 1940s, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was described as “a march toward fascism,” and his court-packing plan condemned as dictatorial. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson’s campaign painted Barry ...

Elon Musk steps back into British politics after speaking at a rally led by controversial right-winger Tommy Robinson, as he continues criticizing Nigel Farage amid voter frustration.

Although charters straddle a careful divide as privately run schools receiving public funding, they’re within the jurisdiction of the NLRB. Under nonprofit law in New York, charters can require staff ...

Introducing WIRED’s 2025 Political Power Users—the creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era.

The friction between wording and worlding is not a problem to be resolved—it is translation's very condition. It lives in this dissonance, between semantic nuance and ideological frame, textual ...

A king once set out to tour his kingdom with an assistant. In the very first village they visited, they discovered that water and ghee were being sold at the same price.

I have long become accustomed to what I call the “BTMF” reflex whenever a great, newsmaking calamity or outrage happens. That’s short for “Blame the media first.” As ...

Paul Finebaum, a college sports fixture on ESPN and the SEC Network and with his daily call-in show, is considering a run for the U.S. Senate in Alabama. Finebaum, a former sports reporter and ...