In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 amendments to the Constitution -- which would become known as the Bill of Rights -- he insisted that the most prominent amendment among them restrain the government from interfering with the freedom of speech. After various ...

Not everything significant politically is happening just in the target states. “Never seen anything like this in thirty years,” said California Republican consultant Mike Madrid in an X post, referencing the sharp increase in Republican registration among California’s minority voters, ...

The tricks Donald Trump tried to play on the recent hurricane victims were beyond depraved. Here were people suffering major losses, their lives stopped in a hellscape of tattered roofs, ruined possessions and, in some cases, a pile of debris where their home once stood. And there was Trump ...

The last thing I expected while watching a Korean cooking TV show was to confront my childhood feelings about my Greek heritage, but that’s exactly what happened. That I settled on “Culinary Class Wars” on Netflix was no surprise. I’m a sucker for reality cooking competitions, ...

I asked my husband the other day how the vice presidential debate went. Because I no longer subject myself to torturous events that have absolutely no bearing on my life, I hadn’t watched. “Not good,” he said. He was worried that J.D. Vance’s smooth performance against Tim Walz ...

When a natural disaster strikes anywhere in the United States, Americans spring into action to help. I live in Virginia, which was mostly spared from Helene’s wrath, but within hours, I was seeing messages that teams of rescuers from Maryland, Virginia and other jurisdictions were rushing aid ...