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McConnell’s Wife Makes Health Mystery Even Weirder

It’s clear that Mitch McConnell’s allies would really like to shut down the wild rumors about his health — especially Laura Loomer’s claim...

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Margaret Hartmann

Why Hasn’t Platner Dropped Out Yet? Live Updates

Maine oyster farmer Graham Platner’s insurgent campaign to defeat Republican incumbent Susan Collins is now on death watch after credible...

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Intelligencer Staff

The Best Player of the World Cup Just Might Be Michael Olise

In the 88th minute of the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinal between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid earlier this year, Luis Díaz scored a...

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Tara Menon

A Close Read of the Reflecting Pool Prosecution

The Reflecting Pool saga encapsulates so much about the politics of the moment: President Donald Trump’s fixation on local vanity projects over...

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Elie Honig

Jared Kushner’s Albania Albatross

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Matt Stieb

What’s Really Going on With Mitch McConnell’s Health?

Mitch McConnell has been in the hospital since June 14. Over the past three weeks, the Kentucky senator’s office has provided few health updates....

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Margaret Hartmann

Why the Vetting of Graham Platner Failed

Graham Platner’s once-powerful campaign against Senator Susan Collins is currently imploding. On Monday, Politico published a credible accusation of...

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Ed Kilgore

The U.S. Team Crumbled Under the Weight of the Soccer World

Before Monday night’s World Cup Round of 16 game, Belgium coach Rudi Garcia was asked about the importance of the event. This is not a difficult...

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Will Leitch

The Effective Altruism Comeback

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Andrew Fedorov

The Young Catholic Elite Poised to Take Over MAGA

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Nate Weisberg

It Turns Out Banning Teens From Social Media Is Hard

In 2024, Australia passed a new law called the Online Safety Amendment. Its primary purpose was simple: to introduce “an obligation on certain...

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John Herrman

The U.S. Lost to Belgium in 2014. Things Have Changed.

This Fourth of July weekend, if you are looking for a brief timewarp back to a moment in your lifetime when America felt almost normal, may I direct...

05.07.2026 5

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Will Leitch

Karl Ove Knausgaard ‘Can’t Enjoy When Norway Is Playing’

Norway is not a traditional soccer power, but its arrival at the World Cup’s Round of 16 feels entirely expected. That is largely because of the...

04.07.2026 4

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Ryu Spaeth

Guess What Kind of Man Is Running Freedom 250?

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James D. Walsh

When It Comes to Anniversaries, Trump Is No Gerald Ford

America’s 250th birthday party is here at last. It’s a strange moment to be valorizing the United States, and the general mood of pessimism...

04.07.2026 4

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Benjamin Hart

Trump’s State Fair Arch Gets Sad and Sloppy Renovation

The most iconic attraction at the Great American State Fair, the 16-day event currently happening on the National Mall, is a replica of Donald...

02.07.2026 9

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Margaret Hartmann

Is Mamdani’s 78 Degrees Too Much Collective Warmth?

You may have noticed that there is a big nasty wave of heat overwhelming New York City right now, with temperatures potentially reaching...

02.07.2026 6

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Chas Danner

What Is Going on With Mitch McConnell’s Health?

In mid-June, Mitch McConnell was admitted to the hospital for an undisclosed reason, marking the latest health concern for Kentucky’s senior senator...

02.07.2026 8

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Nia Prater

Trump’s Ranting Could Push D.C. Fireworks Show to July 5

Donald Trump is facing quite the conundrum. Last month, he announced that rather than hosting a unifying celebration of America’s 250th birthday on...

02.07.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

A Brutal Wake-up Call for NYC’s Democratic Establishment

Nobody, not even the co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, anticipated the depth and breadth of the group’s...

02.07.2026 10

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Errol Louis

The Storm at Devon Yacht Club

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Stephanie Krikorian

Possible GOP Governor Pick Won’t Say How Many People He’s Killed

Tuesday’s Democratic primaries in Colorado ended with several notable results for the left. Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeated veteran...

01.07.2026 9

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Nia Prater

How England Fell in Love With Jude Bellingham

In the weeks leading up to the World Cup, football pundits in England endlessly discussed who should start as their No. 10: Morgan Rogers or Jude...

01.07.2026 7

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Tara Menon

‘Let’s Go Kill the Internet’

Zuhair Lakhani has always understood the allure of scarcity. When he was 15, he started sneakerbotting — coding programs that could purchase...

01.07.2026 7

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Rebecca Jennings

Some Supreme Court Justices Are More Political Than Others

The Supreme Court is political. [Hold for applause.] It’s one of the easiest taglines in our current public discourse. The Court sits at...

01.07.2026 7

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Elie Honig

Europe’s Big Bewildering Air-Conditioning Debate

Europe’s brutal, deadly heat wave, the second time the continent been trapped under a heat dome this year, is finally ending after the extreme...

30.06.2026 10

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Chas Danner

Trump Loses on Birthright Citizenship, But Not By Much

It was widely, almost universally, expected that Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order purporting to abolish “birthright citizenship” would not...

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Ed Kilgore

Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s Sweet, Sweet Tungsten Deal

First Daughter Ivanka Trump made headlines last month when she shared in an interview that she and Jared Kushner are hard at work building a $1.4...

30.06.2026 9

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Bess Levin

Everything Going Wrong at Trump’s Great American State Fair

The Great American State Fair is a 16-day event happening right now on the National Mall. Freedom 250, the White House-affiliated organization...

30.06.2026 20

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Margaret Hartmann

Just How Far Can This U.S. Team Go?

Being the best-ever United States’ Men’s Soccer Team (USMNT) of all time is, all told, not that historically mind-blowing a designation. It’s a...

30.06.2026 10

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Will Leitch

Supreme Court Deals Trump Surprise Loss on Election Law

In a mild surprise that instantly produced a not-so-mild reaction from President Trump, a 5-4 Supreme Court majority rejected an administration and...

29.06.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Actually, the World Cup Should Have Even More Teams

Last week, FIFA announced that the 2026 World Cup had already broken the all-time attendance record for the tournament. Though this may be a bit less...

29.06.2026 10

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Adam Elder

AI Inflation Is Screwing With the Rest of the Economy

Last week, Apple apologized to the public for what it was about to do. “We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly,”...

29.06.2026 9

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John Herrman

ICE Won

In January 2017, President Trump had a problem. He’d staked his campaign on a promise to build a border wall “from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf...

29.06.2026 10

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Zak Cheney-Rice

Lionel Messi Has Something His Rivals Never Will

Lionel Messi, by most estimates the greatest soccer player ever, celebrated his 39th birthday a little early this week at a World Cup that already has...

27.06.2026 10

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Adam Elder

5 Things to Know About the Devastating Earthquakes in Venezuela

A pair of powerful earthquakes struck northern Venezuela on Wednesday evening, flattening buildings in multiple heavily populated areas, including the...

26.06.2026 9

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Chas Danner

J.D. Vance Identifies With Nixon, Which Says a Lot

One of the odder but also most telling quirks of the more intellectual of the MAGA warriors is a decided soft spot for Richard Nixon. That’s right:...

26.06.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

What Does Mark Zuckerberg Want With Prediction Markets?

The basic story of Meta is that, after creating Facebook, which grew into one of the largest advertising businesses in the world, Mark Zuckerberg...

26.06.2026 7

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John Herrman

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan Say Reporting Trump Book ‘Almost Killed Us’

After writing a sweeping and very newsy biography of Donald Trump four years ago, Maggie Haberman didn’t plan to take on another book project...

26.06.2026 10

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Michael Calderone

Tom Kean Jr. Suddenly Reappears As If Nothing Happened

Tom Kean Jr., the Republican representative who has been absent from Washington, D.C., and his district since March, was seen by reporters for the...

25.06.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Supreme Court Gives Trump Two Big Wins on Immigration

When the current U.S. Supreme Court terms ends it may be remembered as a moment when an otherwise subservient conservative majority finally drew a...

25.06.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

‘You’re Next’

“It was just a huge wave of euphoria,” says Grace Mausser, the co-chair of New York City’s chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. On...

25.06.2026 10

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Matt Stieb

A Guide to Trump’s Reflecting Pool Enemies, Real or Imagined

Not that long ago, “reflecting pool” just meant reflecting pool. Now, thanks to President Trump, it’s quickly become synonymous with terms like...

25.06.2026 10

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Chas Danner

Zohran Mamdani Tightened His Grip on New York Politics

As New York’s contentious primary season hurtled to a close this week, the constellation of mainstream Democratic politicians, operatives, and...

25.06.2026 10

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David Freedlander

Only the Ninja Turtles Can Save Trump’s Reflecting Pool

President Trump’s summer is off to a terrible start. The lineup for the Great American State Fair concert series on the National Mall was full of...

24.06.2026 20

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Margaret Hartmann

Zohran Mamdani’s Revolution Rolls On

“We are showing there is a new path for politics in our city and in our country,” Zohran Mamdani told stunned, giddy followers in Harlem at one of...

24.06.2026 9

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Errol Louis

Jalen Brunson’s Victory Lap

Fatigue had caught up to Jalen Brunson. For two grueling months of playoff basketball, he had seemed immune to it, growing stronger in the game’s...

24.06.2026 20

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Tom Kludt

It Turns Out the World Cup Is Impossible to Destroy

Barreling along Route 3 in New Jersey at 70 miles per hour on the opening Saturday of the World Cup, a smudge of red whisked by the corner of my left...

24.06.2026 10

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Andrew Rice

Mamdani and Democratic Socialists Rule Election Night in NYC

In a series of closely watched primary elections that doubled as the first true test of Zohran Mamdani’s growing political movement, the mayor’s...

23.06.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Is Trump on an Experimental Weight Loss Drug? An Investigation.

When it comes to Donald Trump’s health, there’s always another mystery. The president regularly appears to nod off during meetings, and he’s...

23.06.2026 9

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Margaret Hartmann