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Trump Cabinet Confirmation Hearings: Schedule & How to Watch

Back in 2016, Democrats were widely appalled by Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, whom they described as dangerous and “historically unqualified.”...

yesterday 20

Margaret Hartmann And Chas Danner

Fires Interfere With Newsom Plan to ‘Trump-Proof California’

If you pause from the horror of the California fire disaster consuming so many acres, buildings, and lives right now and think of the political...

yesterday 1

Ed Kilgore

Pete Hegseth Tries to Survive Senate Confirmation Hearing: Live Updates

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s once-embattled Defense secretary pick, looks a lot closer to confirmation now. On Tuesday, the GOP-led Senate Armed...

yesterday 40

Intelligencer Staff

When You Come at the King

When Donald Trump won his race to recapture the presidency, he also outran the law. His two federal indictments have since been dropped in...

yesterday 2

Andrew Rice

The Tragic Legacy of the Mourner-in-Chief

It is the fate of most presidents to watch the inauguration of their replacements with rueful thoughts: in the words of King Lear, “They told me I...

yesterday 2

Sam Adler-Bell

Hegseth Pressed on Sexual Assault Allegations: Live Updates

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s once-embattled Defense secretary pick, looks a lot closer to confirmation now. On Tuesday, the GOP-led Senate Armed...

yesterday 1

Intelligencer Staff

Jack Smith, Paper Tiger

I don’t often talk publicly about my basketball career but here goes. In college, I led Rutgers University to three straight Final Fours, including...

yesterday 1

Elie Honig

Et Tu, Village People?: Disco Group to Play Trump Inauguration

yesterday 10

Margaret Hartmann

Michelle Obama Isn’t Sick — She Just Hates Trump

yesterday 40

Margaret Hartmann

Trump-Fearing Republicans Give Hegseth a Major Pass

yesterday 3

Ed Kilgore

Melania Trump Says She’ll (Mostly) Live in the White House

Usually, it’s not news that the First Lady plans to live in the White House. But Melania Trump is a very unusual presidential spouse. So it was a...

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Margaret Hartmann

Biden’s Giving a ‘Last Word’ to MSNBC

Lawrence O’Donnell has landed a very big scoop: The anchor of MSNBC’s The Last Word is getting the last word with President Joe Biden, Vulture...

previous day 8

Josef Adalian

The Key Questions Trump Must Answer Before His Inauguration

Lack of self-confidence is not a malady that ever afflicts Donald Trump, which is one reason his frequent missteps inspire so much pleasure among...

previous day 10

Ed Kilgore

Trump Has Had Enough of Mourning Jimmy Carter

President Biden ordered American flags across the country to be flown at half-staff as part of a national mourning period following the death of...

previous day 10

Nia Prater

Los Angeles Shouldn’t Rebuild the Same Way Again

The Los Angeles wildfires are still far from completely contained. But even as swaths of the city remain under threat for at least a few more days,...

previous day 3

Matt Stieb

Poll: Eric Adams’s Reelection Bid Is in Deep Trouble

With the 2025 mayoral race slowly coming into focus, one name has loomed over the growing field of candidates, and it’s not the incumbent. Former...

previous day 4

Nia Prater

Pete Hegseth Is a Test

Pete Hegseth is, by every measure, an abysmal nominee to run the American military. The Army National Guard veteran and former Fox News commentator...

previous day 3

Rebecca Traister

The Two Competing Futures of Self-Driving Cars

In 2025, there are two main ways you can expect to encounter self-driving technology. One is in your own new, or even relatively new, car: While...

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John Herrman

Escaping Los Angeles

I am not a worrier, not given to hear the call of catastrophe. In the middle of the night on Monday, amid the squeal of the wind, my husband got up...

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