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Here's what the Supreme Court decided Monday. States can count mail-in ballots that show up after Election Day. Not a few minutes after. Not a few hours after. After. The day is over, the polls are closed, and somewhere out there, ballots are still making their way to county election offices — and they count. Read More.

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of unlawfully retaining classified national defense information, according to reporting from the Washington Examiner and statements from President Donald Trump. Read More.

Tocqueville, in his portrait of American democracy written nearly two centuries ago, identified the peculiar danger embedded in democratic governance: that the passion for equality, once unleashed, consumes every institution, custom, and restraint in its path. Equality before the law becomes equality of outcome. Equality of opportunity becomes equality of condition. The citizens of a democracy, Tocqueville warned, do not merely want to be free — they want to be assured that no one is better than they are. It is a soft, pervasive tyranny, unlike the hard despotisms of the ancient world, because it arrives not through violence but through the popular will itself. Read More.

Trump just struck Iran. The ceasefire signed last week — the one everyone said was a diplomatic breakthrough — is now fraying. Iran attacked a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. American aircraft responded with strikes on Iranian missile and drone storage facilities. Then Iran launched a drone assault on Bahrain and hit another ship. Read More.

A federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton has sentenced a 28-year-old Minneapolis activist to no prison time following her conviction on charges of assaulting federal officers during an anti-deportation confrontation targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read More.

On the Fourth of July, 1826 — precisely fifty years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence — two of its most distinguished authors died. John Adams in Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, each within hours of the other, as if Providence itself had drawn a curtain on the Founding generation. Neither lived long enough to know with certainty whether the experiment they had launched would endure. Read More.

Tuesday night in New York City, the Democratic Party held its own funeral and didn't even notice. Read More.

The Democratic Party just ate itself alive in New York, and the party's own leaders are standing in the wreckage looking confused. They shouldn't be. They built this. Read More.

Three Republican committee chairmen formally threatened to hold ActBlue in contempt of Congress on Monday, escalating a yearlong investigation into whether the Democratic fundraising platform failed to prevent fraudulent and potentially foreign political donations. Read More.

Here's something you're not supposed to notice. While vice presidents meet in Switzerland and diplomats talk about "technical negotiations" and "memoranda of understanding," the American president is threatening to literally take over the Strait of Hormuz. Not impose sanctions. Not write a strongly worded statement. Take. It. Over. Read More.

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Thursday that on her final day leading the U.S. intelligence community, she would declassify and release documents she described as "never-before-seen" materials linking former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, American taxpayer funding, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Read More.

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down a federal law that banned habitual marijuana users from owning firearms, ruling the statute unconstitutionally deprived individuals of their Second Amendment right to keep weapons in their homes. Read More.

Here's what they're not putting at the top of their coverage. Read More.

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced charges against 15 individuals allegedly affiliated with a Minneapolis-based activist organization, accusing them of conducting a coordinated campaign to obstruct U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Read More.

When the Roman Emperor Decius issued his edict in 250 AD requiring all citizens of the empire to publicly sacrifice to the Roman gods and obtain a certificate of compliance, the test was not primarily about theology. It was about political loyalty. To refuse the sacrifice was to mark oneself as an outsider — someone whose inner allegiances lay beyond the reach of Caesar's dominion. The early Christians who declined understood precisely what was at stake. They were not merely being asked to perform a ritual. They were being asked to signal that their conscience belonged to the state. Read More.