The most reliable demographic statistics suggest we may go into global population decline before almost anyone predicted.

What is a Robertsism? It's a term I like to use to describe memorable quotes from Chief Justice John Roberts that infuriate the right and leave one wondering whether Roberts really believes what he is saying. For example, during Trump's first term, Roberts famously rebuked the president for calling out "Obama judges" as political actors. Roberts insisted that federal judges were nonpolitical: "We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges." Similarly, during the oral arguments in the vital case of Trump v. Barbara in April, he uttered another one: "It's a new...

If you talk to folks in the anti-abortion movement, they're pretty disappointed about the state of things in the US.

Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin told the RCP podcast on Thursday that Chinese leader Xi Jinping invoking the "Thucydides Trap" during meetings with President Trump is "not good history" and a sign of weakness.

Rather than trying to engineer a grand bargain, this is a moment to prevent deterioration

For years, conventional wisdom held that the suburban shopping mall was dying. Seph Laws's book Abandoned Malls, published in 2020, included photographs of more than 200 of them across the nation in various states of near-gothic decay. Anchor retail stores like J.C. Penney and Sears disappeared, smaller retail outlets moved their businesses online, and if a shopping mall figured at all in popular culture, it was as nostalgic background scenery, like the Starcourt Mall in the Netflix show, Stranger Things, set in 1983.

It's hour three of doomscrolling on X, each post more unnerving than the last: charts predicting economic collapse, headlines of a failed assassination attempt, YouTube video thumbnails with the title "NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE."

Why is interest in UFOs on the rise? No one is better positioned to answer that question than Diana Walsh Pasulka, whose book "American Cosmic" is an indispensable guide to contemporary interest in extraterrestrial life. This year, she has a new book coming out, "The Others." You won't want to miss it - or her essay below.

The tropical escape of northerners, and also of large birds.

Last week, The Washington Free Beacon revealed that the leading candidate for Congress in New Jersey's 12th district, Adam Hamawy, was a longtime friend and supporter of the so-called

Xi Jinping is fond of invoking the Thucydides Trap, an academic foreign policy concept about how war between established and rising powers is inevitable unless one gives way. There's a reason for that, writes Aaron MacLean.

This Iran "excursion" must be driving Donald Trump crazier. He has a need for immediacy, for results, for news, for "winning," but he has on his hands a stalemate or worse, as the (former?) Neoconservative Robert Kagan, suggests in The Atlantic:

With Iran militarily decimated and economically squeezed, Trump holds all the cards. But is a deal possible or worthwhile with a fragmented regime?

Beijing has different interests to the US in the Iran war, which may preclude any breakthrough during Trump's visit.

Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

President Donald Trump suggested earlier this week that Venezuela should be annexed by the United States. He reportedly told Fox News correspondent John Roberts-not to be confused with the chief justice-that he was "seriously considering a move to make Venezuela the 51st state."

Every Democratic senator skipped a Senate hearing where CIA whistleblower James Erdman alleged Fauci suppressed the COVID-19 lab leak theory.

Few Democrats acknowledge what most Americans believe: Tolerance should be far lower for crimes committed by people who entered the country illegally, writes Charles Lane.