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Biographers get distracted by the photographer’s unusual life story—to the point of diminishing her work itself.

Who Peter Thiel is does not really matter. What matters about him is whom he connects.

The assault on voting rights advances full bore. These people are fighting back.

Hernan Cortes, Captain Cook, and Prince Philip were each worshiped as deities—with very different consequences.

They hate the establishment. They want to destroy the system. Meet the illiberal upstarts trying to remake conservatism.

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Fox News' Pete Hegseth, former Veterans Affairs officials, and a Koch-backed group are ganging up to accuse the agency of “cancel culture” and even “killing its veterans.”

Is the man who wanted Donald Trump to declare martial law prepping for some American Armageddon? Or is he doing something more subtle that the press is missing entirely?

Human Events once shaped Republican policies. Now it’s pure Trumpism.

When you can turn it into a game show, a term has lost all political meaning.