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The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes reached 4.71% on Wednesday morning, up from 3.62% in mid-September.

Writer Stephen Rodrick on Jimmy Carter sending his father’s naval task force toward the Persian Gulf just days before the end of his deployment

The new millennium promised a more peaceful, more stable, and more prosperous world. What happened?

Advocates see more room for compromise with the Trump administration than some might expect.

Under pressure by the U.S. government, Mexico steps up enforcement policies to prevent migrants from reaching the U.S.-Mexico border

An alliance of grassroots environmental groups could lose $60 million in federal funding after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S.

Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign very deliberately echoed the one that Ronald Reagan ran in 1980. “Peace through strength” and “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” are the two Reagan slogans that are best remembered today.

Americans tend to have a soft spot for our former presidents. Even the bad ones. By the time Richard Nixon died in 1994, his presidency was as likely to be lauded for the opening to China or the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency as it was to be damned for Watergate.

How many goofs can one nation endure? The answer is Boeing in the wind. How stupid was 2024?