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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...
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...
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...
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...
Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began...
President Trump was rushed off stage at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night after a gunman attacked a Secret...
Football fans and team executives alike descended on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this week for the start of the NFL draft, one of the most highly...
It’s all but a mathematical certainty that Democrats will take the House in November’s midterms. And with Donald Trump’s polling numbers...
In both of his terms, President Trump had, until this year, declined all invitations to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner....
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...
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...
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’...
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...
On Tuesday, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment allowing the Democratic-controlled legislature to temporarily substitute a new...
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,...
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...
President Donald Trump blinked on Tuesday and unilaterally extended the Iran War cease-fire, citing the need for more time for peace negotiations to...
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....
Like nature itself, politics abhors a vacuum. So the hole in the California Democratic gubernatorial field caused by front-runner Eric Swalwell’s...
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...
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...
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...
FBI director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick on Monday, alleging that the...
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,...
Military support for Israel has long been a default position among mainstream Democrats and Republicans. The war in Gaza, which began with Hamas’...
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...
“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...
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...
All along, Republicans have faced high odds in their effort to preserve a governing trifecta in Washington in November’s midterm elections. They...
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...
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...
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...
Pete Hegseth is a man of simple pleasures — Donald Trump, lethal violence, maximal posturing, push-ups, and Jesus — and he’s lucky enough to...
This story was originally published in December 2024. In April 2026, a grand jury in Walton County, Florida, indicted Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky on a...
Justin Fairfax, the former lieutenant governor of Virginia, and his wife, Cerina Fairfax, were found dead in a murder-suicide at their home in...
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...
J.D. Vance went to Hungary to defend the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and western civilization itself. “Will you stand for sovereignty and...
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...
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...
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...
Donald Trump has, unintentionally, done an incredible job of uniting the Democratic Party. Despite cliches about Democratic “disarray,” nearly all...
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...
Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress on Tuesday amid several allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Now, one of Swalwell’s formerly closest...
In the game plan most Republicans envisioned for 2026, message discipline and coordinated action were very important. The party, with strong agreement...
It briefly looked as if Congress might do something unprecedented this week: simultaneously expel four House members currently engulfed in scandal....
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...
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...
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...
As journalists, we always strive for accuracy. But sometimes news organizations get it wrong. They publish articles about the nonexistent “North...
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...