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DHS Is Still Shut Down Because Extremists Own Mike Johnson

The closure of the Department of Homeland Security has now become the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history, at 45 days and counting. It...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Propaganda Machine Is Flailing on Iran

Watch enough Pentagon press conferences and a running theme emerges: Pete Hegseth whining about media coverage of the war in Iran. “You’re either...

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Ross Barkan

Slow-Walking Back Into an AIDS Nightmare

If I stopped taking the medication that suppresses my HIV, at first I’d feel fine. But over the next few months, my viral load would rise. In the...

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Tim Murphy

All of the Iran Attack Plans Are Bad. This One Is the Worst.

President Trump keeps signaling that the Iran war he started with Israel is nowhere close to completion, despite his repeated assurances otherwise —...

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Benjamin Hart

Will Trump Order an Invasion of Iran?

While diplomatic discussions appear to be underway between the U.S. and Iran, as of now there is still no end in sight for the Iran war. It’s also...

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

Democrats Could Win a Majority of Governorships In 2026

The political world is, understandably, focused on 2026 Senate and House races. The question of whether the Republican Party will maintain its...

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Ed Kilgore

Who Will Trump Blame for the Iran War?

Though President Donald Trump continues to insist that the war with Iran is a spectacular success, four weeks after the U.S. and Israel attacked, the...

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

Trump’s Delusional Victory Lap

As travelers languished in hours-long security lines at more than a dozen U.S. airports this week, President Trump boarded Air Force One headed for...

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Zak Cheney-Rice

There’s a DHS Shutdown Deal, But the Crisis Isn’t Over Yet

In the middle of Thursday night, in a near-empty Senate chamber, an end to the most perplexing conflict of the second Donald Trump term finally came...

27.03.2026 5

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Ed Kilgore

‘Look, Mommy Was in Vogue’

On paper, the couple seemed perfect, ticking all the boxes for their wedding to be featured in Vogue: career, family history, luxury photographer and...

27.03.2026 6

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Charlotte Klein

Why Is Pam Bondi Ducking Epstein Questions?

This is the most transparent Justice Department in the history of the United States and maybe all of human existence. Just ask them. When pressed in...

27.03.2026 10

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Elie Honig

Airports Won’t Snap Back to Normal When the Shutdown Ends

The Department of Homeland Security has been shuttered for more than a month as congressional lawmakers remain at an impasse over funding for the...

27.03.2026 3

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Nia Prater

Social Media Companies Are Suddenly Getting Killed in Court

On Tuesday, a New Mexico jury found that Meta had violated state law, misleading users about safety measures and engaging in “unconscionable”...

26.03.2026 5

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John Herrman

Mamdani’s New Democratic Adversary

Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced he was taking the first step toward delivering on a vital campaign promise: establishing a new way for the...

26.03.2026 5

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Ross Barkan

Why AI Companies Want to Take Control of Your Computer

In 2024, Anthropic tested out a feature called “computer use,” a tool that could “try to manipulate a computer desktop environment,” clicking...

26.03.2026 5

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John Herrman

The Fake Cartier and the Fake Rockefeller

When Andrea Bartzen moved to New York in the late 1990s, it may have looked like she was living out a season of HBO’s then-new Sex and the City. She...

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Jen Wieczner

Does Either Party Really Want to End the DHS Shutdown?

The Department of Homeland Security shutdown will reach its 40th day tomorrow, and it seems this partisan dispute over immigration enforcement cannot...

25.03.2026 5

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Ed Kilgore

Another Good Sign for Dems: Flipping Mar-a-Lago

Seven years after officially decamping to his Palm Beach estate from New York, President Donald Trump will be represented by a Democrat in the Florida...

25.03.2026 9

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Nia Prater

If Illinois Wins March Madness, I’ll Go Streaking

I love college basketball more than I should, and spend a disturbingly large percentage of my life watching it. And as we head into the second weekend...

25.03.2026 8

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Will Leitch

The True Religion of Reality Television

Last week, the internet watched Taylor Frankie Paul throw barstools at her ex-boyfriend while another reality-star scandal received far less...

25.03.2026 8

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Sarah Jones

The People Getting Falsely Accused of Using AI to Write

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care,...

25.03.2026 10

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Emma alpern

Trump’s Brutalization of Cuba Is Both Cruel and Pointless

Amid the chaos and bloodshed of Donald Trump’s military excursions into Iran and Venezuela, it’s easy to overlook the needless misery America is...

24.03.2026 7

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Ross Barkan

Hakeem Jeffries Explains His Strategy to Win the Midterms

Representative Hakeem Jeffries is so close to becoming Speaker of the House that he doesn’t even need to measure the drapes. In the literal office...

24.03.2026 9

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Errol Louis

The Story Behind Those Fruit and Vegetable AI Slop Videos

“Stay close, my tiny little noodles,” the mother spaghetti strand says, desperately clinging to her two adorable pasta daughters as a disembodied...

24.03.2026 10

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E.j. Dickson

The Vance Whisperer

In January, Vice-President J. D. Vance delivered a Jewish prayer during a wedding at a synagogue in Rockville, Maryland. The bride was Rachel...

24.03.2026 8

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Casey Quackenbush

How the Fatal La Guardia Collision Happened

Shortly before midnight on Sunday, Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Canadair CRJ-900 operated by Jazz Aviation LP, collided with a firetruck after...

23.03.2026 5

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Jeff Wise

One Missile Could Make the Oil Crisis Much Worse

More than three weeks into the Iran War, President Trump has failed to accomplish any of the constantly changing objectives he has laid out along the...

23.03.2026 9

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Benjamin Hart

Could the Girls of Camp Mystic Have Been Saved?

The women sound like men who have been to war: They can only try to tell you. “It was a place,” says a former camper, “I have been doing my best...

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Kerry Howley

What Counts As Domestic Terrorism in Trump’s America?

Days after the killing of Charlie Kirk in September, the Department of Justice announced a crackdown on “antifa,” or anti-fascist groups. Federal...

22.03.2026 10

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Sarah Jones

Will the Iran War End Soon? Trump’s Shifting Timetables

How long will President Donald Trump’s new war with Iran last? That depends on whom, how, or when you’re asking (or how freaked out the markets...

21.03.2026 9

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

Why Team USA Was an Outlier in the World Baseball Classic

On March 7, as the World Baseball Classic was starting to ramp up, Team Venezuela manager Omar López kicked off a press conference with a plea to...

21.03.2026 8

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Zak Cheney-Rice

Why Are the U.S. and Israel at War With Iran? No One Knows.

Why are the United States and Israel at war with Iran? No one, least of all the men waging the conflict on our reluctant and terrified behalf, seems...

21.03.2026 10

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Jacob Bacharach

Iran War Triggers Global Energy Emergency: Live Updates

In the aftermath of air strikes on gas fields and oil facilities around the Middle East, the global energy crisis touched off by the war in Iran has...

20.03.2026 10

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Intelligencer Staff

Trump’s Losing War Against the Federal Reserve

Even as the Supreme Court has granted Donald Trump expanded presidential powers, it has tried to warn him: Don’t mess with the Fed. But the...

20.03.2026 10

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Elie Honig

White House Heard Lewandowski Kickback Claims, Did Nothing

While testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, former Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem denied that her top aide, Corey...

20.03.2026 9

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Margaret Hartmann

What the ‘Dubai Is Over’ Narrative Misses

Dubai prides itself on being a cosmopolitan city immune from the volatility that defines some of its neighbors in the Persian Gulf. President...

20.03.2026 10

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

J.D. Vance Is Having Kamala Harris Problems

The day before Joe Kent resigned from the Trump administration as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, declaring he could not in...

19.03.2026 10

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Ross Barkan

Bright Lights, Big Problem

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez likes her car. For a congresswoman, it’s not exactly flashy — a 2013 Volkswagen Jetta — but it has an upgraded engine,...

19.03.2026 10

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Nate Rogers

Why Iran Is Winning the Slop War

There are enormous gaps in the information available about the war with Iran. In the country at the center of the conflict, tight media and internet...

19.03.2026 20

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John Herrman

Pritzker Flexes Political Muscle in Illinois Senate Race

The race to succeed five-term Democratic Illinois senator Dick Durbin, which exposed political fault lines from Illinois to Washington, D.C., all but...

18.03.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Rand Paul–Markwayne Mullin Feud Explodes in Surreal Hearing

Oklahoma senator Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation hearing to become the next Homeland Security secretary soon became a battleground of old grudges as...

18.03.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Crypto Cash Fuels Democrats’ Divide in Illinois Senate Race

In 1992, Illinois became the first state to elect a Black woman to the U.S. Senate after Carol Moseley Braun upset incumbent Democratic senator Alan...

18.03.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

A Terrorist Attack on Thursday. A Bat Mitzvah on Friday.

Aaron Rivkin said it was “the worst 40 minutes of my life.” On Thursday, March, 12, his mother-in-law planned to pick up his 3-year-old daughter...

18.03.2026 10

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Ashley Zlatopolsky

Will Trump Be Able to Stop His Own War?

As Niccolò Machiavelli pointed out five centuries ago, “wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.” Donald Trump is about to...

18.03.2026 20

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Jonah Shepp

Another Key Iranian Leader Has Been Killed: Live War Updates

An Israeli air strike on Tuesday killed Iranian security chief Ali Larijani, one of the most important figures inside Iran’s regime, who had...

17.03.2026 20

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Intelligencer Staff

Wall Street Just Put Zohran Mamdani on Notice

Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently got the political equivalent of what baseball players call a brushback pitch — a fastball deliberately thrown...

17.03.2026 20

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Errol Louis

The Loneliness of Resisting ICE Near Dilley Detention Center

The CoreCivic employees stop me when I turn off Highway 85 onto the road to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. The men are gleaming, barrel...

17.03.2026 10

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Elizabeth Weil

Should You Be Able to Have Sex With ChatGPT?

An iron law of running a large internet service is that your users will figure out how to use it to share, consume, or make porn. Explicit adult...

16.03.2026 10

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John Herrman

The ‘Micropenis’ Beef Between Megyn Kelly and Mark Levin

There’s a lot of drama in the world of conservative broadcasting and podcasting these days. But rarely do the spats get as personal as the brewing...

16.03.2026 10

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

How Will 2028 Democrats Handle the Israel Question?

There was a time when Ro Khanna boasted of “working with the American Jewish Committee and AIPAC to build ties between the Indo American and...

16.03.2026 10

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Ross Barkan