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The Psychology Behind Trump’s Plan to Give Everyone $5,000

To understand Donald Trump’s epic (in length, not content) speech on the first night of the Midterm Republican Convention nobody but him wanted to...

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Ed Kilgore

Will Democrats Let Trump-Backed College-Sports Bill Pass?

If you happen to be a college-football fan and you watch the sport on any of the ubiquitous Disney-owned ABC-ESPN outlets, you are probably aware of a...

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Ed Kilgore

New from Apple: Extremely Pricey iPhones and a Watch That Eavesdrops

Apple’s Wednesday iPhone event was unusual in a number of ways. It was the first one emceed by new Apple CEO John Ternus, who officially succeeded...

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John Herrman

It’s Time to Rein in Mamdani’s Influencer Army

As a mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani employed social-media influencers with great skill and success, and he brought the strategy to City Hall. His...

yesterday 3

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Errol Louis

Ben Shelton Summited the Mountain at 3:33 a.m.

Don’t be fooled by the pyrotechnic highlights making their way across your feed this morning: The U.S. Open quarterfinal between Ben Shelton and...

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Owen Lewis

Trump Is Wasting the Name ‘New America’ on New Mexico

Anyone who’s watched half a season of The West Wing could tell you that with less than two months to go until the midterm elections, the president...

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump’s Canada Tariffs Could Be Stopped By a Lawsuit. Why Has Nobody Filed One?

Donald Trump has never lacked for litigation opponents. Democratic state attorneys general routinely gather by the dozen to sign on to lawsuits...

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Elie Honig

Why Journalists Love a Push Alert

The process for applying for a push alert at the New York Times takes place in a Slack channel called “Notifications,” where desk editors lobby...

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Charlotte Klein

Trump Tells Weird Lie About Where He Was on 9/11

President Trump took part in the Tunnel to Towers Foundation’s Steel Across America tour Tuesday, delivering remarks from the Ellipse in Washington,...

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Nia Prater

Midterm Convention Gives GOP More of What It Needs Least

For the first time since Democrats tried it twice (with poor results) in the 1970s, a major U.S. political party is holding a “midterm national...

tuesday 5

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Ed Kilgore

A Democratic Blue Wave Could Hit Governors’ Races, Too

Democrats have reason to hope that a “blue wave” in the midterm elections, fed by Donald Trump’s unpopularity, will help them flip the House and...

tuesday 20

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Ed Kilgore

Leon Black Wants Back in After Epstein

With the release of the Epstein files seven months behind us, many of the leads into the convicted sex offenders’s connections to the rich and...

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Matt Stieb

Meta’s Reckoning

Three years ago, dozens of states jointly sued Meta, alleging it had designed its technology “to entice, engage, and ultimately ensnare” young...

07.09.2026 4

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John Herrman

Three Ways the 2026 Midterms Could Reshape Washington

We’re now two months out from the 2026 midterm elections, and in some ways, the outcome is even more uncertain than usual. The basic rules of how...

06.09.2026 5

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Ed Kilgore

Marta Kostyuk Is Becoming a Star. Her City Is Under Attack.

On May 24, the day of Marta Kostyuk’s first-round match at the French Open, a Russian missile destroyed a building about 300 feet from her...

06.09.2026 3

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Caira Conner

This Was Supposed to Be the Normal College-Football Season

For a few months, it looked like this would be the most normal college-football season in recent memory. Sure, there were some minor cosmetic changes,...

05.09.2026 5

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Will Leitch

I Saw Eala-mania Up Close at the US Open

It’s around 7p.m.Tuesday night, and Louis Armstrong Stadium is filling up for its slate of night-session matches. Frenchman Gael Monfils, a fan...

05.09.2026 8

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Ashish Malholtra

Maria Bartiromo Is Suddenly Out at Fox and No One’s Sure Why

Maria Bartiromo, who has been a prominent fixture on Fox News for more than a decade, is leaving the conservative-media giant, which abruptly...

04.09.2026 6

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Nia Prater

Republican Midterm Odds Are Looking Pretty Grim

Polls can tell you, with varying degrees of certitude, the state of play of individual midterm-election contests for the Senate and the House. But...

04.09.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

Inside Trump’s Ballroom Obsession

These are Corinthian columns,” President Donald Trump tells me as he sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office in late August, a stack of...

04.09.2026 5

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Ben Terris

Hegseth Is Extending the Iran War Trump Says Is Over

While President Donald Trump is projecting confidence about a nearing end to the protracted war in Iran that has progressed into its sixth month —...

03.09.2026 6

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Nia Prater

Trump’s GOP Midterm Convention Has a Crowd-Size Problem

If you believe the ranking Donald Trump keeps posting on Truth Social, he is considered the greatest president of all time. The president has also...

03.09.2026 6

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Margaret Hartmann

What We Owe Nolan Wells

There is no playbook for how a mother grieving the death of her child, under unknown circumstances, should seek justice. For a Black mother whose...

03.09.2026 3

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Cristian Farias

The Other Victims of 9/11

It took 18 years for me to realize I was a victim of September 11. In 2019, I received an email from Chaka Ferguson, a former colleague from the New...

03.09.2026 3

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Lukas I. Alpert

Democrats’ Old-Guard Primary Purge Skips Massachusetts

One of the big narratives of the 2026 midterm elections is that in Democratic primaries, young progressive insurgents are knocking off old centrist or...

02.09.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Renaming Spree Gets Even Stupider With ‘Trump Strait’

Both Apple and Google quickly changed the name of Lake Ontario for U.S. users of their respective map apps after President Trump signed an executive...

02.09.2026 6

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Margaret Hartmann

Neera Tanden, Establishment Warrior

In August, Donald Trump threatened the Center for American Progress with a $5 billion defamation suit, over a report that concluded his deployments of...

02.09.2026 7

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Nate Weisberg

Fighting Trump’s Agenda Starts in the States

Democrats should stop obsessing over the foolish, petty fights that dominate cable news, says former state senator Daniel Squadron. With just over 60...

02.09.2026 6

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Errol Louis

Now You’re Paying for Trump’s Fancy Bowling Alley, Too

Nailing down what exactly Donald Trump is doing to the White House and who’s paying for it has been surprisingly difficult. Most notably, Americans...

01.09.2026 7

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Margaret Hartmann

Whistleblower Raises Alarming Possibility About Mail Ballots

With nine weeks before Election Day, a federal whistleblower is raising alarm that the U.S. Postal Service’s rushed implementation of a new and...

01.09.2026 7

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Nia Prater

Melania Is ‘Grateful’ to Have Natalie Harp on Trump Duty

When Melania Trump reemerged from her month-long hibernation on August 20, Natalie Harp found herself out of the picture — literally. Harp is...

01.09.2026 8

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Margaret Hartmann

The US Open Has Become the Unpredictable Major

For the past 20-plus years, men’s tennis has served up lots of awe and very few shocks. A handful of players, starting with the Big Three and...

01.09.2026 7

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Kevin Craft

The Justice Department Isn’t Learning From Spectacular Failure

Donald Trump’s Justice Department just had a big, stupid, embarrassing summer. It conjured a slush fund designed to pay $1.776 billion of taxpayer...

01.09.2026 10

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Elie Honig

Trump Personally Bullying Apple to Make It ‘Lake America’

Over the weekend, Google announced that it would comply with Donald Trump’s executive order directing the official renaming of Lake Ontario to...

31.08.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Jon Ossoff’s Big Opportunity Beyond His Own Election

Right now, U.S. senator Jon Ossoff is enjoying a bit of a rock-star moment. He’s raised an enormous haul of cash for his reelection campaign. He’s...

31.08.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Michael Chang Is Finishing What He Started

On June 5, 1989, the day after the Chinese government sent troops to slaughter demonstrators gathered at Tiananmen Square, a 17-year-old American...

31.08.2026 3

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Caira Conner

Trump Can’t Rally the Republicans He Needs

The heart of the 2026 midterm-election battle is a struggle for the high ground of public opinion between supporters and opponents of the president of...

30.08.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Why Trump Won’t Win His New Economic Wars, Either

In terms of their relations with the U.S., Canada, and Iran have very little in common. One is America’s closest neighbor and second-largest trade...

30.08.2026 8

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Jonah Shepp

Texas’s Primary Losers Really Don’t Like the Primary Winners

Democratic representative James Talarico and state Republican attorney general Ken Paxton emerged victorious from their contentious primaries and are...

29.08.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Plenty of States Have Flipped. Texas Could Too.

For a data-driven number cruncher of the highest order, Nate Silver is refreshingly honest in admitting his skepticism about the Senate candidacy of...

29.08.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

The Right’s Woman Problem

With Karoline Leavitt departing as press secretary, the White House loses one of its most conspicuous women. Leavitt, a 29 year-old mother of two,...

29.08.2026 10

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Sarah Jones

Canada Rejects Trump’s Ridiculous ‘Lake America’ Rebranding

On Thursday, President Trump made good on perhaps the silliest threat he has directed toward Canada amid the burgeoning trade war, signing an...

28.08.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Trump Snubs 9/11 Ceremony Because He Can’t Give a Speech

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. So you might think that the president of the United States, a native New Yorker who was in...

28.08.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

Big Tech Braces for Possible Post-Midterms Democratic Probes

It doesn’t take an MBA from Stanford to know that the biggest companies in Silicon Valley tend to cozy up to whatever political party is in power....

28.08.2026 10

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Matt Stieb

Why the Editor of Stars and Stripes Is Suing the Pentagon

Last week, the Pentagon fired three journalists at military newspaper Stars and Stripes: editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer, and...

28.08.2026 7

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Michael Calderone

The Fear of Noncitizen Voting

On December 9, 2021, the New York City Council met to decide if noncitizens should be allowed to vote in all municipal elections. Versions of Local...

28.08.2026 8

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Zak Cheney-Rice

Trump Makes Good on Ridiculous ‘Lake America’ Rebranding

The trade war President Trump started with Canada seems to be preoccupying him far more than the actual war he started in Iran. That was apparent on...

27.08.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Is Trump Just Deporting ‘the Worst of the Worst’? Far From It.

There has always been an element of fundamental duplicity in the second Trump administration’s mass-deportation program. In promoting it during the...

27.08.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

6 Reasons Republicans Dread Trump’s Midterm Convention

There was a time, not too long ago, when Republicans would be totally stoked to gather together and enjoy some classic Donald Trump rally rants....

27.08.2026 20

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump’s Iran War Was Even More Reckless Than We Realized

It’s been abundantly clear that President Trump’s war with Iran was a colossal mistake from the moment it began, but remarkably, six months later,...

27.08.2026 9

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Chas Danner