News cycles this year have been a relentless parade of hard knocks, and April has been no exception. But last weekend, the people of Hungary delivered good news. They came out in record numbers, with nearly 80% participation, to decisively vote out Viktor Orbán, the country’s long-standing illiberal prime minister. The opposition Tisza party ...Read more

President Donald Trump trekked to Las Vegas on Thursday to tout last year’s “no-taxes-on tips” reform. His appearance represents an attempt by the White House to highlight the administration’s economic accomplishments — under fierce attack from Democrats — heading into the vital November midterms.

A recent Quinnipiac poll found that...Read more

Every once in a while, an advance in treating cancer is so stunning that doctors get chills. Such is the case for Revolution Medicines’ pancreatic cancer therapy daraxonrasib, which in a late-stage study allowed patients with advanced disease to live twice as long as those who only received chemotherapy.

That’s an astounding advance for a ...Read more

It feels like an eternity, but it was only a decade ago when the political center-left was still for “all of the above” energy sources: fossil fuels and renewables alike. It was the not-so-distant days of Barack Obama, when the U.S. president defended fracking as a force for good, saying there wasn’t a trade-off “between our environment ...Read more

American Airlines was marking its centennial on Wednesday with celebrations at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and the giant carrier’s other hubs. We would imagine Scott Kirby’s 100th birthday invitation got lost in the mail.

That’s because the famously competitive Kirby spoiled American’s birthday party by casually ...Read more

It seems like a simple ask that male politicians don’t sexually harass or even rape women, but also, it seems like an open secret in Congress that sexual misconduct is too common.

Take Eric Swalwell, whose epic political immolation has captivated this week’s national political news, including a TMZ-obtained video of the then-congressman ...Read more

The president has repeatedly mocked Gov. Gavin Newsom for being dyslexic. It’s a cheap shot, but it’s also proof of something more deeply troubling: an entrenched and damaging assumption that people who struggle to read, write or organize their thoughts are somehow less capable, less intelligent or less worthy of leadership.

That assumption...Read more

Americans could be forgiven if they're unaware that President Donald Trump recently performed one of his most essential tasks and sent his annual budget request to Congress, though months late and stunningly incomplete.

After all, so much else has been dominating the news lately: the Mideast war that Trump promised not to start. Price rises he'...Read more

“If the great brain of NASA were attached to any particular sense, it was the eye,” wrote Norman Mailer in his psychedelic history of the Apollo program. Whatever else one may say of the agency, its ability to produce evocative images remains unrivaled.

Artemis II, NASA’s just-concluded lunar mission, will be remembered for many things, ...Read more

It’s almost like a bizarre political science experiment: Just how many unpopular policies can one president pursue? From starting a war with Iran to threatening Greenland to building a new White House ballroom, President Donald Trump’s unshackled second-term priorities are compounding the mounting electoral risk for his party in November’s...Read more

Prior to the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell decision, opponents raised alarms about the severe and immediate harms that would surely occur if marriages between same-sex couples were recognized nationally. Afterward, when those harms failed to materialize, those voices grew quieter, but some have been returning with renewed vigor, in hopes ...Read more

Governor Abigail Spanberger won a sweeping victory in Virginia in no small part because she focused on affordability and prioritized political pragmatism over polarization. Five months later, a public opinion poll shows the Democrat has lost considerable support.

Why? Likely because of her party’s push to enact a partisan gerrymander.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose illiberal right-wing policies have served as a template for President Donald Trump’s second term, was roundly defeated last Sunday. His electoral loss, after 16 years in power, offers a lesson for those seeking to safeguard the American experiment from the president’s autocratic bent.

Perhaps ...Read more

Even as the U.S. and Iran flirt with a return to negotiations, each appears convinced it can dish out more pain — and absorb more — than its opponent. They’d both be wiser to accept the compromises needed to bring their six-week conflict to a close.

Exactly what derailed marathon peace talks in Islamabad last weekend — and whether they ...Read more

President Donald Trump has called for the privatization of airport security at smaller airports, a recommendation outlined in Project 2025. Though the president has a record of making specious statements and wild recommendations, in this case, he is spot-on and perhaps doesn’t go far enough.

The Transportation Security Administration has had ...Read more

April 24 is Arbor Day, when Americans will gather to plant trees on city streets, in parks, and within other open spaces. But this year, as wildfires, drought and flooding threaten communities from California to the Carolinas, we need to think bigger than individual saplings.

Arbor Day was founded in 1872 to green the once-treeless Great Plains...Read more

The biggest losers in Sunday’s extraordinary election in Hungary, aside from its four-term autocratic prime minister Viktor Orbán, were Russia’s Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump.

Moreover, the reasons for Orbán’s fall offer surprising parallels with diminishing support for the U.S. president. And the restoration of Hungarian ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When I was a child, I watched “The Jetsons” and “Lost in Space” and imagined my adult self living in a world of high-tech ease: flying cars, self-cleaning rooms, high-speed trains, personal jetpacks and wise-cracking robotic companions capable of solving any problem in a trice.

Instead I got Google (now with an ...Read more