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Trump’s ‘Lake America’ Threat to Canada Is Just Lazy

After trade negotiations between the United States and Canada collapsed last week, the Trump administration slapped new 50 percent tariffs on $20...

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Margaret Hartmann

A Democratic ‘Power Grab’ in Brooklyn

Tonight’s tussle for control of the Kings County Democratic Party, scheduled to be held at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club, is the latest...

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Errol Louis

Trump’s Ballroom May Be Built Before the Law Can Stop Him

Donald Trump is no constitutional scholar, but he has long understood and exploited this under-recognized feature of our legal system: It’s hard to...

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Elie Honig

Rebecca Katz’s Risky Formula for Winning Elections

It’s a few hours before polls close in Michigan, and Rebecca Katz is alone in front of the stage at the Majestic Theatre in Midtown Detroit, pacing....

yesterday 1

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David Freedlander

Politicians Are Now Competing to Prove Who Hates Data Centers the Most

The backlash to data centers seems to be spreading like a contagion, and, with the midterm elections only a few months away, candidates are trying...

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Nia Prater

The Enormous Stakes of the Federal Case Against Meta

Meta has endured a lot of scandal and controversy over the years, but its status as one of the most valuable companies in the world was never really...

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Benjamin Hart

The Pay-to-Play Childhood

Look, the kid is fine at soccer. At 11, he’s competitive, and he loves the game. But if his mother, Elizabeth, had it her way, he would still be on...

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Caitlin Moscatello

Bill Clinton’s Party Needs a ‘Different Kind of Democrat’ Again

The 42nd president of the United States just turned 80 this past week, and you have to be pretty long in the tooth yourself to remember how very young...

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Ed Kilgore

Despite Primary Whiffs, Poll Haters Are Still Wrong

One of the things about politics that people love to hate is polling. To a certain extent, this antipathy is entirely understandable. As critics often...

22.08.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

I Can’t Stop Watching These Botched Amazon Drone Deliveries

Living in the future continues to be really weird. It’s 2026, and we’ve got a lot of new high tech stuff, some of which is cool, entirely useful,...

22.08.2026 7

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Chas Danner

AOC and Ossoff Are Young. Why Rush to Run in 2028?

There’s a lot of talk in Democratic circles about the need for “generational change,” which isn’t surprising given the proximate end of a...

21.08.2026 7

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Ed Kilgore

The Communist Conspiracy Theory Consuming the Right

In 2003, the Southern Poverty Law Center warned of a “bizarre” label gaining popularity with the right. “Cultural Marxism” was everywhere,...

21.08.2026 8

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Sarah Jones

The Man Taking Mamdani to Court

It is a Monday afternoon in August, and midtown is as empty as it gets all year. But Randy Mastro, the lawyer who has made himself a sharp thorn in...

21.08.2026 7

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Chris Smith

Outgunned Ken Paxton Needs a Trump-Musk Bailout

Ken Paxton secured the Republican Party nomination in the Texas Senate race with a political boost from President Donald Trump, but what should be a...

20.08.2026 6

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Nia Prater

Midterm-Convention Trump-fest May Backfire on GOP

Democrats’ best hope for the midterms is that voters only have one thing when they head to the polls in November: their opinion of Donald Trump. If,...

20.08.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

ChatGPT Is a Huge Snitch

In 1998, government lawyer Stephen Houck made a novel argument. Asked why the U.S. wasn’t summoning Bill Gates to testify in its antitrust case...

20.08.2026 5

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John Herrman

Bari Weiss Blew Up 60 Minutes. Now She Has to Fix it.

On the last Thursday of May, Tanya Simon’s staff packed up her office. They filled boxes with personal items accumulated over more than 25 years at...

20.08.2026 7

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Charlotte Klein

Jeff Bezos, Javanka Have Yet to Score Invites to ‘Billionaire Bunker’ Club

The richest people in the universe are used to getting what they want on account of their gargantuan piles of money. Want to buy access to a...

19.08.2026 7

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Bess Levin

Who Is Natalie Harp? Trump’s Most Ardent Aide, Explained

Absolute loyalty to Donald Trump is a job requirement for everyone he employs. So how far do you have to go to scare other people on Team Trump with...

19.08.2026 20

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Margaret Hartmann

Was Darline Graham’s Dumb Debate Answer Just an Act?

Throughout her brief career as a senator and as a candidate to remain one, Darline Graham has gone to some lengths to distance herself from the legacy...

19.08.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

DSA Senate Candidate Scores Huge Florida Primary Upset

Republicans’ last-minute gerrymander upended Florida’s congressional map, setting the stage for messy primaries across the Sunshine State. And on...

19.08.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Everything We Know About Leopold Aschenbrenner, the ‘Nostradamus of AI’

The saga of Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old hedge-fund manager who parlayed an essay about artificial intelligence into Situational Awareness LP,...

19.08.2026 10

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Bess Levin

Who Gets to Write the Rules on AI?

So many people had signed up for China’s premier artificial-intelligence expo in mid-July — over 200,000 by some estimates — that the ticketing...

19.08.2026 6

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Chang Che

80-Year-Old Ed Markey May Trounce Another Young Challenger

Six years ago, Ed Markey successfully fended off a prominent primary challenge from a far younger representative. Recent polling suggests the...

18.08.2026 9

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Nia Prater

Florida’s Chaotic Primaries Show Impact of GOP Takeover

To an even greater extent than its midwestern counterpart Ohio, Florida is a state that has rapidly transformed itself from a blue-leaning...

18.08.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Menacing But Dumb Plan to Break the Midterms

For all its splendor, our Constitution does have this vexing tendency to leave some concepts a bit murky. What exactly counts as “high crimes and...

18.08.2026 10

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Elie Honig

Trump Admin Gave the Trump Family’s Crypto Company the Okay to Start a Bank

Donald Trump’s second term in office has been markedly different from his first in a number of ways. In the first term, for example, the president...

17.08.2026 10

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Bess Levin

Trump Consults AI George Washington on Ballroom Design

Since Donald Trump flattened the East Wing last October, his justification for building a White House ballroom has evolved considerably. Originally,...

17.08.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

What to Do About Trump Duping the Press

On the evening of July 8, Politico White House reporter Megan Messerly told her colleagues that she was “wheels up” on Air Force One out of...

17.08.2026 10

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Michael Calderone

The Ghost of Mitch McConnell Still Runs the Senate

On the first Saturday in May, at a Derby-week party in Louisville, Kentucky, Mike Ward ran into Senator Mitch McConnell. They hadn’t seen each other...

17.08.2026 10

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Nate Weisberg

Will Private Equity Ruin the Yankees?

The New York Yankees announced monumental news last week, but it had nothing to do with Aaron Judge or Cody Bellinger’s returns from injury, Ben...

16.08.2026 10

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Adam Elder

Hey, Your AI Is Showing

It’s obvious to anyone with an internet connection that AI-generated content is all over the place. Still, case-by-case determinations are often...

15.08.2026 10

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John Herrman

When Egg Freezing Is a Form of Protest

Last weekend, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told her legions of Instagram followers that she’s decided to freeze her eggs at age 36. She...

15.08.2026 10

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Sarah Jones

Trump’s MAGA Hunger Games Was Even Weirder Than Expected

Late last year, President Trump announced that America’s 250th birthday celebration would include the “first-ever Patriot Games, an unprecedented...

14.08.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump’s Constant Calls to Karoline Leavitt Really Backfired

When White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Wednesday that she will leave her job by the end of the month, there was a lot of...

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Margaret Hartmann

NYC Kids Are Getting Their Own Version of Trump Accounts

The smartest money our city will spend this year is a $53 million line item, buried in the $126.8 billion municipal budget, that will deposit $1,000...

14.08.2026 10

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Errol Louis

Mark Zuckerberg’s Awkward Pivot to AI Optimism

For what feels like a long time now, the big AI companies have been talking about how future versions of their technology could destroy millions of...

13.08.2026 20

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John Herrman

Trump’s Childhood-Vaccination Meddling Is All Wrong

This week President Donald Trump attempted to upend how vaccines are administered to children in the U.S., signing an executive order that lowers the...

13.08.2026 20

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Nia Prater

Wes Moore’s Media War

The Baltimore Sun’s letters-to-the-editor column last week featured a vigorous defense of the newspaper’s monthslong investigation of Maryland...

13.08.2026 10

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Paul Farhi

Trump’s Catering-Truck VIP List: Diet Coke Valet and Human Printer

Donald Trump’s hottest club isn’t Mar-a-Lago, Bedminster, or even the Rose Garden. It’s the catering truck with a secret entrance the president...

12.08.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

Crowley Upsets Hong in Wisconsin As Progressive Surge Falters

The “progressive surge” story line that dominated Democratic primaries this summer came to an abrupt halt in Wisconsin yesterday, as Milwaukee...

12.08.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

Max Miller’s Reelection Chances Look Increasingly Bleak

The final deadline for Representative Max Miller to remove himself from Ohio’s general-election ballot came and went Monday as the congressman...

12.08.2026 20

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Nia Prater

The WNBA’s Sophie Cunningham Saga Is a Growing Pain

The WNBA and its fans are rapidly learning what happens when your sport becomes popular. As I’ve long argued, women’s sports are poised to become...

12.08.2026 40

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Will Leitch

Jeanine Pirro’s Big Decision

Donald Trump is furious at Jeanine Pirro because she wasn’t quite batty enough. Last week, the president lashed out at Pirro, his chosen U.S....

12.08.2026 20

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Elie Honig

Trump Goes to Bat for FIFA Chief After Kushner Deal Crashes and Burns

As you’ve probably heard by now, it’s been a rough couple of weeks for FIFA chief Gianni Infantino. First, there was the absolute crashing and...

11.08.2026 10

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Bess Levin

Trump Used Air Force One Passengers As Decoys, Saved Himself

At first glance, reports that President Trump secretly slipped off Air Force One in a catering truck to thwart an Iranian assassination threat sound...

11.08.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

The Scramble for Lindsey Graham’s Senate Seat

A hastily assembled field of Republican U.S. Senate candidates in South Carolina will face its first test on August 11 in a special primary to choose...

11.08.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

Howie Rose Will Always Believe

The broadcaster Howie Rose is bracing for a meeting with Howie the dog. Rose walks briskly through a tunnel beneath Citi Field’s box seats,...

11.08.2026 10

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Chris Smith

Two Messy Midwest Primaries Test the Progressive Surge

A week after Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow victory in Michigan’s U.S. Senate primary, the competition between progressives and centrist Democrats is...

11.08.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Caught Giving Himself AI-Generated Makeover

Donald Trump just turned 80 years old, he has a terrible diet, he doesn’t believe in exercise, and he has an extremely stressful job known for...

10.08.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann