President Joe Biden increased the federal workforce by about 5%, the highest increase in any single term since the 1980s. President Donald Trump oversaw a 2.6% increase in federal employment during ...

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Did online satire aimed at Taylor Swift  "open the gates” to her being booed at the Super Bowl? It's a possibility, according to researchers behind a new study investigating the role satire might play ...

Did online satire aimed at Taylor Swift  "open the gates” to her being booed at the Super Bowl? It's a possibility, according to researchers behind a new study investigating the role satire might play ...

NASCAR is Trump country, White House officials have said, and attendees on Sunday warmly welcomed the president in a brief visit.

Comedians who lampooned Kamala Harris and Joseph R. Biden Jr. are finding that their fortunes rise and fall based on the ...

From Gen Z on up, we can’t afford to disengage from the policy discourse any longer. It's not always exciting, but it's ...

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Maeve digs herself into yet another self-defeating romantic hole. This story arc actually ...

Mitch McConnell has a new nickname, and I’m fine with the fact I didn’t pick it. I had some pride of ownership in Morphine ...

After declaring himself the chair earlier in the week, the board elected him to that post “unanimously” Trump declared. He ...

More than thirty actions and executive orders either boost fossil-fuel production or cripple programs that might reduce ...

These people were probably not all that bright in the first place, you just never bothered to look beyond the surface because ...