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The Updated Epstein List: Who Is Named in All of the Files?

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

5 Excuses MAGA Makes for Its Toddler President

Veteran political journalist Jonathan Martin has a new rant at Politico Magazine with the self-explanatory headline: “The President Who Never Grew...

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Ed Kilgore

The Right’s Post-Trump Civil War Is Already Underway

On the day before Halloween, Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, released a horror film of his own. Roberts stared into the...

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Sarah Jones

How AI Companies Are Simulating the Robot Takeover

One of the promises underwriting the AI boom is that software will be able to use computers on our behalf. At the low end, this looks like the...

yesterday 2

John Herrman

Supreme Court Puts Trump’s Midterm Power Grab Back on Track

For a while there, you could hear serious talk about Donald Trump’s brazen midterm-rigging national gerrymandering initiative backfiring. He’s...

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Ed Kilgore

The Malignant Incompetence of Kash Patel

According to a new report created by a group of former and current FBI special agents about the first six months of Kash Patel’s tenure as FBI...

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Elie Honig

J.D. Vance Can’t Admit the Obvious: The GOP Has Antisemites

In what has become a regular ritual for him, Vice President J.D. Vance is again dismissing concerns about antisemitism in the Republican Party and...

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Ed Kilgore

Kash Patel Uses FBI As His Girlfriend’s Uber

When Donald Trump selected Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, initial concerns from critics revolved around the president tapping a staunch...

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Nia Prater

The Fallout From CDC Panel’s Vote on Hep B Vaccine: Live Updates

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine panel voted eight to three in favor of abandoning the universal recommendation...

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Intelligencer Staff

Marco Rubio Is More Dangerous Than Pete Hegseth

One year into Donald Trump’s second term, it’s difficult to grasp the coherence of MAGA. At its core, MAGA is about tariffs and xenophobia. It’s...

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Ross Barkan

Netflix’s $83 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Deal Could Reshape Hollywood

It’s official: Big Red is buying the back-lot empire home to Batman, Harry Potter, and Tony Soprano. On the heels of weeks of frenzied bidding...

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Chris Lee

Who Will Benefit From the New ‘Trump Accounts’ for Kids?

It’s well known that Donald Trump loves to send taxpayer dollars directly to voters with packaging intended to make the bounty seem like a gift...

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Ed Kilgore

Can Mike Johnson Survive Until the Midterms?

When historians of the future compile lists of great Speakers of the House, of the titans who ruled the People’s Chamber with an iron fist and...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Job Approval Among Independents Is Astoundingly Low

Due to partisan polarization in the 21st century, a candidate (say with the initials DJT) can plumb unknown depths of extremism without losing the...

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Ed Kilgore

LeBron James Is Doing What Michael Jordan Never Could

This season, NBC is broadcasting the NBA for the first time since 2002, which has led the network to try and capture a very specific sort of Gen-X...

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Will Leitch

The Latest MH370 Search Implies Something Unusual Happened

The on-again, off-again search for the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner that went missing 11 years ago is back on. On Wednesday, the country’s...

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Jeff Wise

How the FBI Finally Identified the D.C. Pipe Bomb Suspect

On Thursday, federal authorities announced the arrest of a Virginia man in connection with the placement of pipe bombs at Democratic and Republican...

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Nia Prater

Trump Sleeps in Cabinet Meeting, Rants Online All Night

The day before Thanksgiving, Donald Trump railed against the New York Times for publishing a front-page story with the headline “Shorter Days,...

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Margaret Hartmann

Tennessee Special Election Is Another Ominous Sign for GOP

In a another sign of a Democratic comeback after the party’s wretched 2024 performance, a left-bent special-election candidate in a deep-red...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Wants You to Know Affordability Is a Hoax and You’ve Never Had It So Good

Donald Trump’s superpower, if he has one, is to assert wildly counterfactual things over and over and somehow convince people his version of...

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Ed Kilgore

Pity the Eighth-Grade Parents

Being furloughed without pay through October and most of November was a nightmare for federal workers across the U.S. But for Emma, who lives in...

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Kera Bolonik

Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. In the days before we reached the Netzarim checkpoint in Gaza in...

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Mohammed R. Mhawish

Why Is Trump Pardoning Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar?

In an surprise move, President Donald Trump has announced that he is pardoning Henry Cuellar, a Democratic congressman from Texas indicted last...

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Nia Prater

Will Trump Break the Health-care Deadlock or Make It Worse?

Given the fraught nature of so much that has happened in politics during 2025, America has earned a holiday respite aside from the sordid blood-...

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Ed Kilgore

No One Is Buying Trump’s ‘Preventative’ MRI Explanation

From suggesting bleach as a COVID treatment to making unproven claims about Tylenol causing autism, President Donald Trump’s relationship with the...

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Margaret Hartmann

Why Sam Altman Declared ‘Code Red’ at OpenAI

In the past few weeks, the most talked about start-up in the world has been emitting some alarming signals. OpenAI should expect some “rough...

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The Updated Epstein List: Who Is Named in All of the Files?

Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

5 Excuses MAGA Makes for Its Toddler President

Ed Kilgore

The Right’s Post-Trump Civil War Is Already Underway

Sarah Jones

How AI Companies Are Simulating the Robot Takeover

John Herrman

Supreme Court Puts Trump’s Midterm Power Grab Back on Track

Ed Kilgore

The Malignant Incompetence of Kash Patel

Elie Honig

J.D. Vance Can’t Admit the Obvious: The GOP Has Antisemites

Ed Kilgore

Kash Patel Uses FBI As His Girlfriend’s Uber

Nia Prater

The Fallout From CDC Panel’s Vote on Hep B Vaccine: Live Updates

Intelligencer Staff

Marco Rubio Is More Dangerous Than Pete Hegseth

Ross Barkan

Netflix’s $83 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Deal Could Reshape Hollywood

Chris Lee

Who Will Benefit From the New ‘Trump Accounts’ for Kids?

Ed Kilgore

Can Mike Johnson Survive Until the Midterms?

Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Job Approval Among Independents Is Astoundingly Low

Ed Kilgore

LeBron James Is Doing What Michael Jordan Never Could

Will Leitch

The Latest MH370 Search Implies Something Unusual Happened

Jeff Wise

How the FBI Finally Identified the D.C. Pipe Bomb Suspect

Nia Prater

Trump Sleeps in Cabinet Meeting, Rants Online All Night

Margaret Hartmann

Tennessee Special Election Is Another Ominous Sign for GOP

Ed Kilgore

Trump Wants You to Know Affordability Is a Hoax and You’ve Never Had It So Good

Ed Kilgore

Pity the Eighth-Grade Parents

Kera Bolonik

Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza

Mohammed R. Mhawish

Why Is Trump Pardoning Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar?

Nia Prater

Will Trump Break the Health-care Deadlock or Make It Worse?

Ed Kilgore

No One Is Buying Trump’s ‘Preventative’ MRI Explanation

Margaret Hartmann

Why Sam Altman Declared ‘Code Red’ at OpenAI

John Herrman