2+ hour, 32+ min ago  (775+ words) More want to leave the country than ever before. That's not the only way they're escaping. Young American women, it seems, want out of America. A Gallup poll in November found that 40 percent of US women ages 15 to 44 say they…...

3+ hour, 2+ min ago  (1308+ words) What Katie Wilson thinks national Democrats should learn from her win. The election was divisive, pitting an established moderate against an upstart progressive in the large, Democratic city. For a while it seemed like it would be close, but in…...

3+ hour, 32+ min ago  (916+ words) It's a key reason the economy felt so, so bad this year. There is no better window into the soul of America's striving professional class than LinkedIn, a site that this year often seemed less like a networking platform than…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1356+ words) JD Vance crossed many things off his to-do list this year. But what's in store for 2026 and 2028? After a successful 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance came into the White House ready to shake things up, support President Donald Trump at…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (444+ words) The fixation on Greenland once looked eccentric. Now, it seems like the distillation of his whole foreign policy. 2025 is ending much as it began: with President Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland. On Sunday, Trump appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (971+ words) Social media bans don't have to be just for children. It was the last day of school before winter break, and Aiden and his eighth-grade classmates were playing a game of Mafia. After the first round, though, one of Aiden's…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (551+ words) Even some of the Court's Republicans ruled that his attempt to use troops against US citizens went too far. The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (954+ words) Understanding Ghislaine Maxwell, the heir who went on to abuse children. There's much more in the full podcast, so listen to Today, Explained wherever you get podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Pandora, and Spotify. What was Maxwell's upbringing like? Well, Ghislaine…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (876+ words) The Court's overall docket is shrinking, even as it hears more and more cases dealing with Republican cultural grievances. The Supreme Court for much of the last several decades has been a fairly technocratic body. The Court, to be sure,…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1799+ words) The global debt crisis works like your credit card " but much, much worse. Like many Americans, most countries are in a lot of debt. Developing countries, alone, carry nearly $31 trillion worth of debt. Enough debt to give everyone in the…...