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Late-night hosts reacted to the assassination of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk and decried the rising tide of political violence in the US.Seth MeyersSeth Meyers opened…

Late-night hosts respond to the shooting of Charlie Kirk and assess Donald Trump’s denials of a sexually suggestive birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein from 2003.Stephen ColbertStephen…

Yesterday afternoon, at a Utah Valley University political event, hundreds of attendees watched the murder of 31-year-old Charlie Kirk, a conservative movement-builder and itinerant controversialist. Within…

Keir Starmer is facing serious questions about his political judgment after he was forced to sack his US ambassador, Peter Mandelson, over his friendship with Jeffrey…

While British rightwing politics has never been exactly a gentle pursuit, there is a longstanding assumption that its tone and content have limits. Enoch Powell’s “rivers…

After nearly five decades, Dan Balz is retiring from The Washington Post, where he covered 12 elections and eight presidencies as a political correspondent. On Washington…

Practicing science in the United States has become more politically fraught in the past seven months than it has ever been in this country’s history. As…

In April, comedian Jena Friedman had a strange encounter in Vancouver airport. She had just performed a Ted talk about the future of comedy and was…

August 12, 20254 min readTrump Order Gives Political Appointees Vast Powers over Research GrantsResearchers are alarmed that an expansive executive order issued by President Donald Trump…

The NIH is one of several agencies where a political appointee will have to sign off on grant awards. Wesley Lapointe/The Washington Post via Getty Images…