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Our culture has become obsessed with “blue zones” where people purportedly live longer. But does the underlying research stand up to scrutiny?

This argument is particularly unconvincing this time around. And it doesn’t offer a realistic prescription for future success.

An interview with writer Jill Lawrence, author of a new piece about Trump's "team of outlaws," about how unsettling it is that the GOP Senate is one of our last defenses against authoritarian rule.

The president-elect has targeted the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship protections for deletion. The Supreme Court might grant his wish.

Neil Postman’s jeremiad against TV seems rather quaint today—and not just because he was shouting into the wind and knew it.

With Republicans informing Trump that Matt Gaetz’s nomination looks unsalvageable, the author of a new piece on his “team of outlaws” explains why it’s so unsettling that the GOP Senate is our last line of defense.

He wants someone who’ll sell Wall Street on across-the-board tariffs. That person doesn’t exist.

Make America Healthy Again indeed.

Less than half an hour after Trump publicly complained about senators not doing their jobs, JD Vance posted about the same thing.

Michelle Salzman wants to win the Florida representative’s seat after he suddenly stepped down.

Greene said that if the House releases Matt Gaetz’s Ethics report, it should release every Ethics report.

Several were arrested in the Capitol as they tried to persuade the Biden administration to stop arming Israel.

Giuliani will do anything to avoid paying that $148 million—and he’s hoping Trump will bail him out after inauguration.

The prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial aren’t willing to give up on everything after his historic felony conviction.

Trump’s transition team was apparently unaware that Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host he nominated to lead the Department of Defense, has been accused of sexual assault—or that he paid his accuser off.

It isn’t looking good for Trump’s attorney general pick.

Eastern Europeans’ “internal emigration” experiences under authoritarianism offer useful lessons about how to check out without isolating yourself.

Donald Trump has picked Howard Lutnick to serve as secretary of commerce. He’d be a disaster in more ways than one.