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After trade negotiations between the United States and Canada collapsed last week, the Trump administration slapped new 50 percent tariffs on $20...
Tonight’s tussle for control of the Kings County Democratic Party, scheduled to be held at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club, is the latest...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
In 2003, the Southern Poverty Law Center warned of a “bizarre” label gaining popularity with the right. “Cultural Marxism” was everywhere,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Republicans’ last-minute gerrymander upended Florida’s congressional map, setting the stage for messy primaries across the Sunshine State. And on...
The saga of Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old hedge-fund manager who parlayed an essay about artificial intelligence into Situational Awareness LP,...
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...
Six years ago, Ed Markey successfully fended off a prominent primary challenge from a far younger representative. Recent polling suggests the...
To an even greater extent than its midwestern counterpart Ohio, Florida is a state that has rapidly transformed itself from a blue-leaning...
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...
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...
Since Donald Trump flattened the East Wing last October, his justification for building a White House ballroom has evolved considerably. Originally,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Last weekend, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told her legions of Instagram followers that she’s decided to freeze her eggs at age 36. She...
Late last year, President Trump announced that America’s 250th birthday celebration would include the “first-ever Patriot Games, an unprecedented...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Baltimore Sun’s letters-to-the-editor column last week featured a vigorous defense of the newspaper’s monthslong investigation of Maryland...
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...
The “progressive surge” story line that dominated Democratic primaries this summer came to an abrupt halt in Wisconsin yesterday, as Milwaukee...
The final deadline for Representative Max Miller to remove himself from Ohio’s general-election ballot came and went Monday as the congressman...
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...
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....
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...
At first glance, reports that President Trump secretly slipped off Air Force One in a catering truck to thwart an Iranian assassination threat sound...
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...
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,...
A week after Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow victory in Michigan’s U.S. Senate primary, the competition between progressives and centrist Democrats is...
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...