NEWS

A vice president, a Russian oligarch’s widow, and a Greek Orthodox priest walk into a cafe. That’s not the opening line of a joke; it’s part of the story told from the transcript of Devon Archer’s testimony.

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A technology company deletes a parental rights group’s conferences empowering parents after the Southern Poverty Law Center added the group to its “hate map.”

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The Alabama Republican Party is on the verge of prohibiting some GOP candidates from accepting campaign donations from the Alabama Education Association, the state’s predominant teachers union.

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Fitch Ratings downgrades the U.S. government’s credit rating from “AAA” to “AA+,” a signal that the agency no longer has complete confidence in the government’s ability to avoid default.

ANALYSIS

Parents Defending Education reveals the reach of the People’s Republic of China in U.S. K-12 schools. Nicole Neily says this “should really concern a lot of people.”

COMMENTARY

The life of Warren G. Harding rhymes with the presidential politics of our time. Historians give more weight to his relatively mild scandals than to his policy successes—likely because he was a conservative…

NEWS

A conservative group demands answers about whether the Justice Department is repeating its 2021 strategy of targeting concerned parents.

COMMENTARY

A new Washington Post feature attempts to make a teen couple who had twins after Texas’ heartbeat law went into effect into Dickensian characters, victims of the cruel laws around them.

NEWS

The federal judge who will oversee former President Donald Trump’s case in Washington related to challenging the 2020 election outcome has a reputation for being tough on Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants.