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If anyone were to be immune to America's loneliness epidemic, it would be college students. For years, Americans have been going to fewer parties and spending more time alone. But college has historically been about socializing-or, let's just say it, partying-as much as it has been about education. It's where young people escape parental supervision, move in with roommates, and encounter thousands of potential new friends.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has pivoted his reelection campaign to center himself as a champion of affordability. Yet the Illinois Tollway Board he appoints, and serves on, is preparing to vote on the largest passenger toll increase in state history as soon as Aug. 19.

Everyone from RFK Jr. to social media influencers are telling us that the nutrient needs to be maximized in our diet as much as possible. But is that actually good for our bodies?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants Americans to see her as the new, steady, moderate voice who can lead the increasingly radical Democratic Party. She didn't endorse the unhinged Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate, Francesca Hong, and in a recent interview with ABC's Jonathan Karl, she laughed off "Woke 1.0" as a crazy fad that she has long since outgrown.

A movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Armenian genocide launched by the so-called "Young Turks" in the last stages of the Ottoman Empire comes to mind as I watch the soft, seductive, silky smooth, and venomously evil AI political ad posted by a Republican congressional candidate in Florida.

Monday, August 17th on RealClearPolitics: How Big is the Big Tent?

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy's new book Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America subverts the norms of its genre. Politicians who seemingly aspire to higher office tend to focus on sharing their biography and bland, poll-tested policy prescriptions.

Here's what's happening in Florida and across the country in key races.

GOP officials are willing to accept the FBI's crime statistics as legitimate, but only when a Republican is president.

So one of the political lessons of the primary election season is how badly polls have been wrong. Comrade Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan was supposed to win by more than 20 percentage points, but instead barely escaped by a thin cat's whisker.

Tuesday's primary punctuates just how much Florida, once the nation's largest swing state, has been transformed into a solidly Republican bastion.

Child stars often fall

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has transformed how Americans think and talk about health policy.

Chief Justice John Roberts faces a critical stay decision on the D.C. Circuit's order blocking Trump's White House East Wing construction project.

The latest act by Democrats proving that once again November's midterm elections come down to the sane versus the insane.