Ryan Teague Beckwith

President-elect Donald Trump’s stance on immigration in his 2016 campaign could be summarized in three words: “Build the wall.” But in his first term, he did not, in fact, build a wall across the entire southern border and make Mexico […]

There’s a classic sketch from comedian Tim Robinson in which a hot dog-shaped car crashes into a store. As the crowd gathers around to find out what happens, a man dressed in an oversized hot dog costume pretends it’s not

NBC News projects that Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez has won a second term in a Republican-leaning district in Washington state, defeating Republican Joe Kent in a rematch. A centrist Blue Dog Democrat who beat Kent by just 2,629 votes

Republican-backed ballot measures that make clear that only American citizens can vote passed in eight states on Tuesday. Although it’s already illegal and rare for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, the measures were put up for a vote this

Suppose you are chatting with your neighbor when, out of the blue, they mention their deep and abiding concern that unicorns are being killed by unscrupulous hunters. Now, you have two choices. You can argue with them that unicorns aren’t

Read through old Supreme Court decisions, and you’ll be struck by how little they tell you about the individual Americans at the center of the cases. To take one example, the majority opinion in the landmark 1963 decision in Gideon

Mitt Romney was fighting mad. He was running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry had just claimed at a debate that Romney supported a federal individual health insurance mandate like the one in the Affordable

Can science predict the future? The great science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote a series of books in which a scientist figures out a way to do just that. “It was the science of human behavior reduced to mathematical equations,”

The vice presidential debate Tuesday between Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will likely be your last chance to see the two campaigns square off before the election. With the two running mates not as well-known

During Barack Obama’s presidency, frustration among his supporters at unfulfilled campaign promises became so common that a political scientist coined a name for the phenomenon. These supporters, Dartmouth University’s Brendan Nyhan explained, were suffering from the Green Lantern Theory of