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The Strange Aftermath of the WHCD Shooting

It was a little after 8:30 PM and I had just sat down at Café Milano, the white-tablecloth Georgetown watering hole loved and hated by both sides of...

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Charlotte Klein

My Experience Inside the Ballroom During the WHCD Shooting

Never for a moment did I think I was in danger when shots rang out at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, although nearly every person...

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Errol Louis

Why Can’t We Treat GLP-1’s Like Medicine?

Last summer, my skin began to itch. I did not have a rash, or an insect bite, which meant the cause remained a mystery and lotion didn’t help me for...

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Sarah Jones

Is Melania a U.S. Citizen? Her Immigration Story, Explained.

Melania Trump is, theoretically, an open book. She’s been in the public eye since she began dating Donald Trump in the late ‘90s, she released a...

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Margaret Hartmann

The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker

Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began...

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John Herrman

What We Know About the WHCA Dinner Shooting: Live Updates

President Trump was rushed off stage at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night after a gunman attacked a Secret...

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Intelligencer Staff

The Whole Mike Vrabel–Dianna Russini Mess, Explained

Football fans and team executives alike descended on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this week for the start of the NFL draft, one of the most highly...

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Nia Prater

Trump Seems to Be Planning Ahead for Losing the Senate

It’s all but a mathematical certainty that Democrats will take the House in November’s midterms. And with Donald Trump’s polling numbers...

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Elie Honig

Why Is a Magician Hosting the White House Press Dinner?

In both of his terms, President Trump had, until this year, declined all invitations to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner....

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

Why the GOP’s New Midterms Strategy Won’t Work

Logically, the first option any governing political party should pursue to maintain its hold on power is to do a good job, specifically on issues the...

23.04.2026 2

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Ed Kilgore

Chuck Schumer Used to Be Popular. Now He’s Stuck.

It seems hard to believe now, but there was a time when Chuck Schumer was an immensely popular politician. He surged to victory in a contentious...

23.04.2026 0

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Ross Barkan

Washington Enters Its TMZ Era

The three members of TMZ’s new Washington, D.C., bureau arrived at Capitol Hill last Monday ready and eager to stick their cameras in lawmakers’...

23.04.2026 2

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Charlotte Klein

AI Job Loss Is Coming. Does Anyone Have a Plan?

The tech companies have ideas. In early April, OpenAI — whose most cheery prediction says 18 percent of jobs will soon be automated — rolled out a...

23.04.2026 0

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Jacob Rosenberg

Virginia Vote Gives Democrats a Crucial Redistricting Edge

On Tuesday, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment allowing the Democratic-controlled legislature to temporarily substitute a new...

22.04.2026 1

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Ed Kilgore

5 Reasons Mr. Met Shouldn’t Jump Off a Bridge Quite Yet

I have a long history in this publication of trying to talk Mr. Met off the ledge. Hold tight, I counseled in 2023. Hang in there, I advised in 2022,...

22.04.2026 1

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Will Leitch

Amy Goodman’s Journalism Is More Urgent Now Than Ever

Whoever your favorite journalist might be, they are probably a fan and/or follower of Amy Goodman, who is celebrating 30 years as the founder and host...

22.04.2026 1

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Errol Louis

Can the U.S. and Iran Avoid Going Back to War?

President Donald Trump blinked on Tuesday and unilaterally extended the Iran War cease-fire, citing the need for more time for peace negotiations to...

22.04.2026 1

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

What Will Follow Apple’s Tim Cook Era?

At long last, the elders have cast their ballots, the conclave has dissolved, and a tastefully designed blue puff of smoke has risen above Apple Park....

21.04.2026 3

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John Herrman

Will the Becerra Surge Save or Sink California Democrats?

Like nature itself, politics abhors a vacuum. So the hole in the California Democratic gubernatorial field caused by front-runner Eric Swalwell’s...

21.04.2026 3

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Ed Kilgore

Zuckerberg Is Trying to Figure Out What You’ll Pay Him For

The basic bargain accepted by planet Earth’s few billion social-media users for the last few decades has been that, in exchange for use of a free...

21.04.2026 6

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John Herrman

He Dealt Masterpieces by Day, Torture by Night

In a frigid storage unit in Albany this winter, I looked through dozens of boxes belonging to the late art dealer Andrew Crispo. His troubled life was...

21.04.2026 1

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Rachel Corbett

The Fantasy of a Super Jail

President Trump’s problems are threatening to engulf him. He has torpedoed the U.S. economy by starting a war he seems unable to end. Gas prices...

21.04.2026 2

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Zak Cheney-Rice

Patel: I’m No Erratic Drunk. Now Give Me $250 Million.

FBI director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick on Monday, alleging that the...

20.04.2026 3

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

Meet the City’s Most In-Demand Mohel

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Rabbi Eliezer Lawrence is laying a sterile drape over a stone-top table in an Upper Saddle River, New Jersey,...

20.04.2026 1

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Alina Cohen

Where the Democratic Party Goes After AIPAC

Military support for Israel has long been a default position among mainstream Democrats and Republicans. The war in Gaza, which began with Hamas’...

20.04.2026 2

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Benjamin Hart

MAGA Is Eating Its Own

As Donald Trump was swept back into power in 2024, there were few politicians who embodied the new era of MAGA more than María Elvira Salazar, the...

20.04.2026 6

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Ross Barkan

Why LeBron’s Memphis Comments Won’t Go Away

“Staying at the fucking Hyatt at 41 years old?” LeBron James, the Los Angeles Lakers star and one of the greatest NBA players of all time, told a...

19.04.2026 1

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Zak Cheney-Rice

The AI Industry Is Run By People Who Despise Each Other

One thing you hear about a lot from the tiny group of extraordinarily wealthy and powerful people in charge of America’s AI companies is that, as...

19.04.2026 4

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John Herrman

Just How Badly Could Republicans Lose the Midterms?

All along, Republicans have faced high odds in their effort to preserve a governing trifecta in Washington in November’s midterm elections. They...

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Ed Kilgore

The Maduro Case Needs a New Judge

Every Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York has that one judge he just can’t escape. Although cases are assigned randomly...

17.04.2026 6

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Elie Honig

The O.C. Guy Says Bitcoin Is ‘Still a Ponzi Scheme’

Ben McKenzie calls from his office — making the video-interview rounds for his new documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for Money about the crypto...

17.04.2026 3

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

Hampshire College and the Death of a Boomer Utopia

When I attended Hampshire College in the early 2000s, a running joke among students was that the school was about to go bust: that it had run out of...

17.04.2026 6

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Gabrielle moss

Pete Hegseth Adds Press and Pulp Fiction to His Sacrilege

Pete Hegseth is a man of simple pleasures — Donald Trump, lethal violence, maximal posturing, push-ups, and Jesus — and he’s lucky enough to...

16.04.2026 7

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

A Surgeon in Florida Mistook a Man’s Liver for His Spleen

This story was originally published in December 2024. In April 2026, a grand jury in Walton County, Florida, indicted Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky on a...

16.04.2026 5

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Rachel Nuwer

Justin Fairfax & Wife Dead in Murder-Suicide: Updates

Justin Fairfax, the former lieutenant governor of Virginia, and his wife, Cerina Fairfax, were found dead in a murder-suicide at their home in...

16.04.2026 6

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Margaret Hartmann

Can Newsom Clean Up California’s Messy Governor’s Race?

While governor of California is one of the biggest jobs in America, for months the 2026 election has looked like a real snoozer. Now it’s suddenly...

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Ed Kilgore

Why Orbán’s Loss Was So Devastating to the New Right

J.D. Vance went to Hungary to defend the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and western civilization itself. “Will you stand for sovereignty and...

16.04.2026 7

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Sarah Jones

Kathy Hochul Finds a Way to Tax the Rich

A New York Democratic leader is proposing a new tax targeting the ultrawealthy who largely live outside the city limits, but it might not be the one...

15.04.2026 5

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Nia Prater

So SantaCon Was a Con?

New Yorkers — above the age of, I don’t know, 26? — loathe SantaCon, the annual bar crawl centered in the East Village in which around 25,000...

15.04.2026 4

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

Will the U.S. and Iran Meet Again? Live Updates

A naval blockade of Iran ordered by President Donald Trump has begun after the U.S. and Iran failed to come to an agreement during direct peace talks...

15.04.2026 8

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Intelligencer Staff

Finally, Democrats Are a United Antiwar Party

Donald Trump has, unintentionally, done an incredible job of uniting the Democratic Party. Despite cliches about Democratic “disarray,” nearly all...

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Ed Kilgore

Question Alvin Bragg’s Methods, But the Numbers Don’t Lie

Alvin Bragg does not like to, well, brag about his record as Manhattan District Attorney, but the numbers don’t lie. “The ultimate metric is that...

15.04.2026 8

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Errol Louis

Swalwell ‘Best Friend’ Ruben Gallego Is Now on the Hot Seat

Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress on Tuesday amid several allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Now, one of Swalwell’s formerly closest...

14.04.2026 3

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Nia Prater

The GOP Needs Discipline, Gets Trump’s Chaos Instead

In the game plan most Republicans envisioned for 2026, message discipline and coordinated action were very important. The party, with strong agreement...

14.04.2026 7

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Ed Kilgore

When Will Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales Go Away?

It briefly looked as if Congress might do something unprecedented this week: simultaneously expel four House members currently engulfed in scandal....

14.04.2026 3

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Nia Prater

The Winners This Tax Season? Private-Jet Owners.

It was a warm, sunny day at the White House last Fourth of July, when President Trump brought a desk and a big gavel to the South Lawn to sign the...

14.04.2026 3

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

MAGA Loses an Icon

It is still strange to ascribe any deeper meaning to an election in a European country with a population of less than 10 million people. The political...

14.04.2026 10

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Ross Barkan

Was My Elite Education Worth It?

In June 1997, when I graduated from Horace Mann, one of New York’s most prestigious private schools, the New York Times published a story about our...

14.04.2026 4

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Jason mandell

Correction: Trump Says AI ‘Jesus’ Post Was ‘Me As a Doctor’

As journalists, we always strive for accuracy. But sometimes news organizations get it wrong. They publish articles about the nonexistent “North...

13.04.2026 8

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Margaret Hartmann

Swalwell Implosion Creates New Race for California Governor

Until April 10, the general tenor of California’s contest to determine a successor to two-term governor Gavin Newsom had been low-key, even a bit...

13.04.2026 8

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Ed Kilgore